Popped into Starbuck’s to pick up a can of double shot espresso—I like to mix it with the flask of Kahlúa I keep in the glove compartment for those long rides home from Super Target—and it struck me that every person in the store was blindingly white.  In fact, had the employees been wearing tux shirts and bow ties rather than brown baseball caps and Starbuck’s polos, it would have

PJM continues to update regularly—noting that Newt Gingrinch wants the President to let us know that we’re in the midst of World War III.  For his part, Joe Biden dismisses the idea completely, noting that Gingrinch must be “one of them silly dot heads.” Whatever the hell that means.  Meanwhile, Hezbollah’s leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah “urged Arabs and Muslims worldwide to support his guerrillas, saying Sunday that his group is

1) Thanks so much to Karl Bock for the Criterion DVD of Fritz Lang’s M.  After the events of the last week or so, I’m not sure whether the choice of title is remarkably apt or painfully ironic.  But I’m grateful, either way.  Thanks also to Brian Malby for the Sword and the Stone DVD.  My son is already talking about sitting down with mescaline and a box of glazed

Looks like the NYT has decided to go with neutrality over objectivity—essentially severing ties with their own country in the service of what they believe is a higher journalistic good:  Pulitzer Prizes. Writes Times assistant managing editor for photography Michele McNally of a photo taken by NYT photographer Joao Silva showing an al-Sadr army sniper in the act of firing on US troops, “Right there with the Mahdi army. Incredible