by Adam | Sunday 22 August 2010
Friends, I am off stealing yard signs for the heated 'ag commish' race in Alabama. If there's not an exciting story there, I promise I will write you soon about Turkey and Dubai. In the meantime, enjoy this and pray...
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by Adam | Friday 13 August 2010
I am really sad I wasn't in New York when Mayor Bloomberg gave his speech in eloquent defense of the proposed mosque and community center near the World Trade Center site. If you haven't been following, most New Yorkers are...
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by Adam | Friday 6 August 2010
The day’s end came while we were gunning back to Ramallah. Along with the wrenching of the van—with the same erratic gusto as before (substituting techno music for Koran verses)—I felt enervated and unsettled by the intensity of the...
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by Adam | Tuesday 27 July 2010
TFR Shoutout:Daniella Cheslow, journalist nonpareil, who accompanied me to Jenin. I boarded the van from Jerusalem to Ramallah a little after 7:00 in the morning, it was cold in a way I hadn’t felt in a long time which is...
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by Adam | Monday 26 July 2010
A couple articles of mine were in the Jerusalem Post today. The first piece is about how one of President Obama's friends from his days in Chicago (and a small focal point in the 2008 campaign) is now helping arrange...
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by Adam | Thursday 15 July 2010
The JTA is now reporting that the Queen of Jordan did not have Hebrew book offers to reject and so she is not a big, thin hypocrite, but rather a hot, regal mensch. Here's the grain of salt, the kind...
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by Adam | Wednesday 14 July 2010
Meduza (pl. meduzot) are commonly known in English as jellyfish, jellyfishes, aborted octopi, or little motherfuckers. Despite its misleading benevolence, I’ve always enjoyed the idea behind the name jellyfish: they are JELatinous fish (I kid), but this appreciation was...
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by Adam | Thursday 1 July 2010
Author's Note: I'm becoming ever-familiar with the failings of the blogger/traveler balance. I've had all of 30 minutes of internet access this week and only a few hours to write so what you're reading is an early draft of something...
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by Adam | Wednesday 12 May 2010
Jeffrey Goldberg making good points about important things....
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by Adam | Tuesday 27 April 2010
Say that one five times fast. I (almost) always like Jeffrey Goldberg's take on things. He's smart and funny and knows what's really worth kerfuffling about. Like this Jim Jones' joke. And how it's stupid to be angry about it....
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by Adam | Monday 19 April 2010
I found this in the New York Times just a few minutes ago. It's essentially the original copy from 2001 of the xerox argument Elie Wiesel recently made in papers across America. There are differences though. This older one is...
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by Adam | Monday 29 March 2010
Spend three minutes with Bradley Burston over at Haaretz for a poignant treat....
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by Adam | Saturday 27 March 2010
If you haven't seen this, wait until about 45 seconds in. Mindblowing shit....
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by Adam | Monday 22 March 2010
“I grew up a Jew in New York City,” Najla Saïd declares early in her autobiographical one-woman play “Palestine.” Saïd describes herself as a Semitic-looking girl who was raised on the Upper West Side in a politically left-leaning apartment...
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by Adam | Wednesday 24 February 2010
Rarely does a blogger (or, more accurately, an occasional disseminator of nominally interesting online written matter) get to do what I am about to do. (Hold tight.) Background: Bloggers are the emblem of what's wrong with Western culture; a writer...
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by Adam | Monday 22 February 2010
Read Evan Bayh's op-ed piece in the New York Times about how he's leaving the Senate because it doesn't work anymore. Of course, he makes some wonderful, meaningful points about government dysfunction, but I'm not sure resigning is the answer....
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by Adam | Thursday 11 February 2010
Take half an hour or however long it takes you to read one of those sprawling New Yorker articles (it actually takes me weeks to finish one issue) and settle yourself into Jane Mayer's excellent piece about U.S. General Attorney...
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by Adam | Thursday 21 January 2010
I'm a good Dem, but I never liked John Edwards. Not in 2008. Not even in 2004. And especially not now....
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by Adam | Sunday 11 October 2009
I'm sure someone beat Thomas Friedman to the punch on this one, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. There is something kind of grating about the way he writes though. Am I imagining it?...
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by Adam | Thursday 11 June 2009
If I can joke about being able to walk into a sporting goods store in Houston, Texas, and walk out with ammunition for all kinds of guns then I have no choice but to talk about the shooting at the...
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by Adam | Wednesday 10 June 2009
Some of the press has been commenting on a video filmed by Max Blumenthal, the genius political commentator who went around the most touristy stretch of bars and nightlife in Jerusalem to coerce some drunk American yeshiva kids and recent...
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by Adam | Sunday 31 May 2009
Found this article only mere hours before shuffling off to my big sister's wedding. While greater stability is on the march in Iraq these days, it seems that spurned Iraqi men have resorted to using IEDs [improvisational explosive devices] to...
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by Adam | Sunday 3 May 2009
For those behind the times...consider yourself lucky. Barack Obama's first 100 days....
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by Adam | Monday 20 April 2009
I've enjoyed staying quiet so far as discursive plots against the Jews go, but this situation is something that really disquiets me. The walkout was impressive, but for the planets to align for this speech at this conference on this...
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by Adam | Thursday 12 March 2009
Since college, I've been trying my absolute best to quell the part of me that typifies a Reactionary Jew, such a person who shouts at the wind and lives with perpetual high blood pressure because of the world's sinister movements...
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by Adam | Tuesday 24 February 2009
Dear Friends, I have just read and signed the online petition: Save New York State's TV and Film Tax Credits I personally agree with what this petition says, and I think you might agree, too. If you can spare a...
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by Adam | Friday 23 January 2009
In the lead up to the New World, I took my show on the road. First, in the small revolution, I quit my job. I cleaned the bar one last time, I walked out in the middle of the...
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by Adam | Monday 5 January 2009
Why I'm Not Blogging More About Gaza by Jeffrey Goldberg Andrew Sullivan just asked me (live, not on e-mail; bloggers at the Atlantic actually talk to each other) why I haven't been posting more on Gaza. The simple answer is...
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by Adam | Friday 2 January 2009
Here's an update from Gaza...from where I am not reporting....I have not boarded a plane, I have not hopped on a train....I will be staying right here in New York where its cold and the violence is much more...
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by Adam | Monday 15 December 2008
by Adam | Sunday 12 October 2008
I sent this clip to a friend in Dubai to put on display the craziness of the American campaign trail, especially as Barack Obama (by all empirical impressions) seems to be pulling away with the election. The woman in...
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by Adam | Wednesday 13 August 2008
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by Adam | Tuesday 6 May 2008
It’s 12:56 A.M. on the seis of Mayo which is to say the evening didn’t end as surreptitiously as nights do where a tequila tradition prevails. My friend works for the city (not just any city, but New York) and...
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by Adam | Thursday 17 April 2008
The pigeonholing, Kerry(ing) of Barack Obama: It just may work too....
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by Adam | Sunday 24 February 2008
The subject of Mr. McCain’s age has come up, gingerly, on the campaign trail. When one of Mike Huckabee’s biggest supporters, Chuck Norris, 67, said after the South Carolina primary that he did not think Mr. McCain would have “the...
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by Adam | Friday 16 November 2007
A not-so-brief follow-up to my endorsement posting...I do have to say that even after going out late last night, I managed to watch all two hours of the Democratic debate in the wee hours of the morning without falling...
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by Adam | Sunday 11 November 2007
NEW YORK - In a move designed to counter the amount of voters impacted by Pat Robertson's recent endorsement of Rudy Giuliani for President in the upcoming 2008 election, Adam Chandler, magnate of the new media and proprietor of trustfundreporting.com,...
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by Adam | Tuesday 25 September 2007
by Adam | Friday 24 August 2007
I am at an artists' enclave in the South of France, where as a community, you'd figure there'd be some love. (And don't get me wrong there has been some). Unfortunately, somebody's been drinking some haterade. And anti-American haterade at...
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by Adam | Friday 15 June 2007
This is how I look when I field phone calls from my father. A resident of a Hamas-dominated neighborhood, identifying himself only as Yousef for fear of reprisal by his neighbors, said Gazans would always back the winner, regardless...
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by Adam | Wednesday 6 June 2007
One of my best friends in the world decided to make the four-hour trek to New York, taking the Chinatown bus (from Chinatown DC to Chinatown Manhattan) at 2:30 in the morning. She arrived at 5:50 A.M. and I...
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by Adam | Monday 7 May 2007
Here's a little gem for your Monday morning, sent with love from Fox News of all places. They are reporting about Farfur the lovable little mouse who entertains Palestinian children on Hamas television (Al-Aqsa Television). He sings, he dances, he...
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by Adam | Friday 20 April 2007
I suppose it's blase to beat up on anyone in this administration these days, but honestly, this was too much. Since today is National Apathy Day (chemically, at least), I wanted to posit some kind of passing/flailing/stabbing moral inquisition...
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by Adam | Monday 9 April 2007
As one small blog in an ocean of 70 million, I found something decidedly cute about this morning's article in the New York Times about blogger civility. To be truthful, I didn't read the whole thing, I got really...
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by Adam | Monday 27 November 2006
Innocuous vanity plates or symptom of a larger malady? Read on to find out. In the five minutes after I depart Houston Hobby airport in my mother's semi-old silver Volvo, I encounter the billboard of the ages. I was shocked...
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