Dispatches

Living in a Notopia
07.13.2005 09:11 | RUSS WELLEN
From the Dossier of an Ex-Patriot.Charles Shaw, founder and editor of the essential Newtopia Magazine (and a former editor at equally vibrant 3AM Magazine), was recently sentenced to one year in prison for possession of small amounts of marijuana and ecst...

"Do You Have Questions on Another Topic?"
07.12.2005 04:21 | RUSS WELLEN
From the Dossier of an Ex-Patriot.It's almost enough to make you feel sorry for Scott McClellan. The White House Press corps, dormant so long, recently started rumbling and yesterday finally erupted. (David Corn is best on this.) Content, since 9/11, to p...

Under and Un - Appreciated, That Is
07.12.2005 04:18 | RUSS WELLEN
From the Dossier of an Ex-Patriot. 9/11 triggered an explosion of reporting and commentary. In fact, the case can be made that we live in the Golden Age of Journalism. However, little reaches the bulk of the public. Progressive voices no longer boast...

The Jailing of Judith
07.07.2005 04:47 | RUSS WELLEN
From the Dossier of an Ex-Patriot.The New York Times editorial about Judith Miller seems designed to steamroller the ambiguities of her case with patriotic cant: “She is surrendering her liberty in defense of a greater liberty, granted to a free press b...

IHOP? No, stupid – LIHOP. Or was it MIHOP?
07.05.2005 05:28 | RUSS WELLEN
(Let It Happen on Purpose versus Made It Happen on Purpose) From the Dossier of an Ex-Patriot. You’d think that with its tendency to stumble into situations without forethought the Bush administration would accidentally blunder into a bill or initi...

Let the Frog March Begin
07.02.2005 08:43 | RUSS WELLEN
From the Dossier of an Ex-Patriot.Editor & Publisher reported yesterday that Lawrence O'Donnell, senior MSNBC political analyst, stated on John McLaughlin's show that Karl Rove will be named as the Valerie Plame source in the "document dump that Time maga...

The Trouble with the D. St. Memo
06.30.2005 05:19 | RUSS WELLEN
From the Dossier of an Ex-Patriot. Actually, there are two problems. No, not with the probity of the memo(s), but with why it gets stuck in America’s craw. First, most of us not only don’t object to a president lying – to us, for us, it’s all the...

Angels? Give me a houri any day.
06.28.2005 08:42 | RUSS WELLEN
To expand on "Nationalism Trumps Theology," I've long believed men on the hard right are fueled by resentment over all the sex other elements of the population were having starting in the sixties. In disdaining the secular life, though, and settling for t...