Never Again, Again
A decade ago, Pete Townshend sang a solo acoustic version of “Won’t Get Fooled Again” for VH1, even injecting a Dylan impersonation for a couple of lines of this anthem that mourns the futility of revolution. The majesty of The Who’s live shows is preserved in this 1978 version (from the movie The Kids [...]
Goodwill Toward Men
From Twain’s The Mysterious Stranger come these lines spoken by Satan:
“There has never been a just one, never an honorable one — on the part of the instigator of the war. I can see a million years ahead, and [...]
Peace On Earth
As long as we’re fighting, fighting somebody, in Iraq at the behest of nominal Christians, let’s review Mr. Twain’s thoughts from a century ago:
It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast [...]
I Feel Bad
The Godfather passed away this morning, at Crawford-Long Hospital downtown. RIP.
Shakespearean Daily Diss (War on Christmas Edition)
“There is no leprosy but what thou speak’st.” –Timon Of Athens, 4.3.364
2006: the Year in Hate Speech
Media Matters has published its list of this year’s best howlers from the radical right. It’s all there, from John Gibson’s call for more white babies to Glenn Beck’s plea for nuclear holocaust in Iran. Limbaugh takes it a step further, consigning the entire Middle East to fiery destruction, in a sort of wingnut’s [...]
2006 Misinformer of the Year
Media Matters has handed ABC its Misinformer of the Year Award for ‘06. The network hardly bothered trying to conceal its bias:
This year saw ABC air The Path to 9/11, a two-part miniseries that placed the blame for the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the Clinton administration and whitewashed some of the Bush [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“He is as disproportion’d in his manners
As in his shape.” –The Tempest, 5.1.290-91
Heads Up
London braces for a holiday terror attack, though no specific targets or dates have been publicized:
British intelligence and law enforcement officials have passed on a grim assessment to their U.S. counterparts, “It will be a miracle if there isn’t a terror attack over the holidays in London,” a senior American law enforcement official tells ABCNews.com.
British [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“If thy offenses were upon record,
Would it not shame thee, in so fair a troop,
To read a lecture of them?” –Richard II, 4.1.230-32
