Brussels
Sour Dour Baroness Ashton And The Deeds Of Bibi Netnayahu
The Baroness Ashton is a very unhappy woman. You can see it on her face, poor lady. READ MORE >>
Behold China
"Europe ought to buy Greece and make it the federal capital"
Greece is a joke. It is also a mess. And it is about to screw up Europe. Not that Europe is at all in good shape either. READ MORE >>
Jews usually go out to the movies on Christmas ... and then they go out to eat "Chinese." I've spent it writing. Below is my harvest. I wish you all good cheer. Here are the motifs of my writing day. Alas, none of them cheery. 1. THE REAL GRIM REAPER: HOLY DAY VICTIMS IN IRAQ AND PAKISTAN 2. COLD COMMON SENSE ABOUT IRAN FROM, MIRABILI DICTU, "THE NEW YORK TIMES" 3. A WISE EUROPEAN FOREIGN MINISTER: "WE SHOULD SHUT UP ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST" 4. A SOBER "TIMES" PIECE ON ISRAELI MILITARY DOCTRINE READ MORE >>
Sentence of the Day
From The Sun's report of the attack on Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi: Mr. Berlusconi's office yesterday denied reports that he doodled pictures of women's underwear in climate talks in Brussels last week. READ MORE >>
Frenemies
Is the Die Already Cast on Obama's Afghanistan Decision?
The NYT reports on the NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels, which featured a surprise appearance by General McChrystal: READ MORE >>
Ironed Curtain
Our Afghan Ambassador: The Man in the Middle
Selves
The Beaches of Agnes--Cinema Guild The Windmill Movie--The Film Desk Human Rights Watch International Film Festival Naturally enough, the New Wave is rolling back. The tide of new French talent that flooded world screens just before and after 1960--bringing Godard, Truffaut, Rohmer, Rivette, Resnais, and Chabrol, among others--has been ebbing for some time. Movingly aware of this, Agnes Varda, one of the earliest if not one of the most eminent members of the group, has looked back at her life in a film. READ MORE >>
