BBC has the news about the code that appeared in the Da Vinci Code judgement. A code hidden by a judge in his written judgement in the failed Da Vinci Code plagiarism case has been broken. And, how did he do it? The judge had told The Guardian and The Times that the code was [...]
There is a good article by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt in the London Review of Books called The Israel Lobby. (via James Wolcott) It is good reading. I don’t have the time or space to talk react in depth, but here are the lead paragraphs. For the past several decades, and especially since the [...]
NBC is cancelling The West Wing. The new president on “The West Wing” will be a real short-timer: NBC announced Sunday it was pulling the plug on the Emmy-winning political drama after seven seasons in May. The West Wing had some of the best writing on television. Lately, they have been turning the crank on [...]
James Woods reviews Melville: His World and Work by Andrew Delbanco