Yom Kippur is past and now we are into the five days’ preparation for Sukkot. It’s a harvest fest that also commemorates the 40 years of wandering post-Exodus, with the Jews living in temporary huts in the Sinai while God waited for everyone to die who’d picked up slave mentalities in Egypt.
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I’ve been busy this week! Sorry for not posting till now.
Story in the NY Times today about yuppie males in the city who want pix taken of themselves proposing marriage to their girlfriends in Soho. They pay $500 for this service — to people like an ex-photojournalist featured in the article. The Times published [...]
Read MoreFascinating article in today’s Times about Israeli unease over a closeted genre of 1960s-era porn novels – stuff so outré that it even seems to have spooked editors in New York.
Stalags, the porn is called. It first appeared around the time of the Eichmann trial. It was inspired by the testimony and work of [...]
In an episode from the late 1950s or early 60s, Alan Funt approached people outside an employment agency and described the most disgusting, ill-paid work imaginable – he called it something like “The Job from Hell.” It involved shoveling offal in a “flaming pit,” with sweltering temperatures, deadly germs, and a salary of $60 [...]
Read MoreTo make it to the Republican presidential caucuses, former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani has been flip flopping the cosmopolitan stances he used to take on gay, women’s and immigrant rights. Once he supported them; now he’s against. And lately, he’s adopted another opportunistic tad: implying that Staten Island is a center for [...]
Read MoreSeriously, New York City needs to screen Nacho Libre for our cops. That’s the implication of today’s news that an immigrant arrested in May while wearing a mask at a protest march was just vindicated in court. The case has been covered by the Spanish-language paper El Diario, but ignored by the mainstream media. That’s [...]
Read MoreThe New York Times yesterday finally took hold of the “New Dirt on Eichenwald and Justin Berry” story, after being scooped days ago by Counterpunch. That publication sent me to cover the hearing in Nashville last week, where a judge rejected Kurt Eichenwald’s motion to quash subpoenas. They seek evidence that Eichenwald paid additional [...]
Read MoreKurt Eichenwald is in more trouble today, as new evidence emerged that he secretly paid even more money to teen porn maker Justin Berry, besides the $2,000 check which embarrassed him and the New York Times earlier this year (see my previous post, “Eichenwald Dustup” for background).
For the latest, see my reporting in today’s online [...]
Hey, is Art Spiegelman in the house? Or some other cartoonist of semitic spirit? Anita Kunz, artist for this week’s New Yorker cover, does not qualify, regardless of her religious background. Maybe she went to shul as a child, who knows? No matter — she’s from Toronto; that must be her problem. In the New [...]
Read MoreIt looks like I’ll not be eating my cachucha (meaning hat, for those without the time to email “Ask a Mexican”). According to today’s Las Cruces Sun News, that Joint Terrorism Task Force report about Iraqis smuggled across the border, which I wrote about yesterday, is most likely utter mierda. It turns out the [...]
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