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 | 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 | Wednesday 6 December 2006
A view from the top. At long last, I reunite with Hassan (of this summer's TFR fame) who comes to New York on a weekend visit from Harvard. Hassan is the Iraqi-English journalist that goaded me through my political travails...
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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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by Adam | Friday 17 November 2006
You've waited for it, craved it, longed for it, and then...Howard Dean announced that the Dems aren't going to try to impeach President Bush. So instead...you'll have to read my running diary of the General Assembly instead. I know, I'm...
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by Adam | Thursday 14 September 2006
One Thursday afternoon...one towards the end of all of this...I end up in the Deheishe refugee camp in Bethlehem for a tour organized by a (newly arrived) French activist at the Faisal. One more wait through the Bethlehem checkpoint...
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by Adam | Sunday 10 September 2006
From the top of the Herodion outside of Bethlehem, you can see a great deal. To the north, you can look into Bethlehem to the Church of the Nativity and Rachel's Tomb... and beyond the first set of hills, into...
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by Adam | Saturday 9 September 2006
Reflections on Jordan A surreal moment arrives while moving south from Amman on the Desert Highway, when after miles of desert and isolation, you reach the turn-off for the main road leading east to Iraq. The idea that if I...
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by Adam | Wednesday 6 September 2006
My last night in Jerusalem, I grab dinner near the Faisal and decompress by the television with the locals at the hostel. Sidenote: I've just found out this morning that the owner of the hostel (Hisham) a sweet guy with...
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by Adam | Sunday 27 August 2006
Mohammed is the vizier of the Faisal Hostel. He's not to be messed with. He is Palestinian and grew up in Ramallah. At 14, he quit high school and moved to East Jerusalem to work at the Faisal where...
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by Adam | Saturday 26 August 2006
Hassan and I arrive at the Faisal Hostel in East Jerusalem after the place I've stayed in previous visits turned out to be full of drunk yeshiva kids. Walking across the Green Line to the Damascus Gate entrance to...
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by Adam | Monday 14 August 2006
This morning I woke up in a four star hotel (thanks trust fund!) with a mini-bar and an ocean view from the 18th floor. I felt completely renewed from what I can assume were numerous hours of unhindered sleep....
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by Adam | Sunday 13 August 2006
...The reality for a naïve Westerner arrives, a missile fired indiscriminately with no aim but for life has actually just exploded into a mountain of neighborhoods less than half a mile away. There are broken roofs and ball bearings and other unimaginable things pressing further in that morbid spectrum. It reads much simpler on newspaper pages, especially since it’s rarely this border’s story.
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by Adam | Thursday 10 August 2006
...His real name is Itzik. He was born in Greece and moved here when he was two. He has one son, three daughters, does not mention his wife. He normally works as a taxi driver and a bus driver in alternating weeks, but has time off because of the lack of tourism. He speaks English, Greek, French, Arabic, and Hebrew. He fought in Lebanon during the 1982 invasion. He is completely broken. He stammers and repeats increments of time to denote when he thinks the war will end, when there will be quiet, when he won’t stay up all night smoking and coughing.
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