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Coming up:
  • 10/13:
    Rabbi Levi Brackman and Sam Jaffe
  • 10/20:
    Jonathan Garfinkel
  • 10/20:
    Rabbi Robert Levine
  • 10/27:
    Danit Brown
  • 10/27:
    Joshua Henkin
  • 11/03:
    Craig Glazer
  • 11/10:
    Max Gross
  • 11/17:
    Seth Greenland

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THE CABAL
Morning News: Stocks Plunge, Bill Clinton Naps

Looks Like Today Will Be Black Tuesday as Futures look awfully like a 500 point drop.

Nader to Join Bloomberg as Spoiler Candidate? The ex-Green Leader is contemplating another run for the White House. This time he is hoping for minus one percent of the vote.

Sweet Dreams? Bill Clinton cannot stay awake when he is not the center of attention.

UN to Condemn Israel. In other news: sun rises, sky is blue.

Huckabee in Trouble. The Huckster is cutting budget and trimming staff. Why has God forsaken him?


THE CABAL
Kid Rock Supports Israel

His name is Kid: and his Israeli flag was at the cleaner's.His name is Kid: and his Israeli flag was at the cleaner's.Kid Rock, Zionist: "[Israelis] unload on anybody. ‘Fuck with us? We’ll fuck you up,’” he said. “That’s my motto in life. ‘Be nice to everybody, but if somebody fucks with you, fuck them up.’”

Mitt Romney: Whiter than the whitest shade of white. 

Worldwide Stock
Crash
, yet since it is MLK Day, we have been spared. What’s not to love
about this holiday?

Hillary
Wants to Control the Economy
. (Maybe she has read Liberal Fascism?)

Hugo Chavez
goes after the Jews.
Now will Hollywood
stop supporting him?

Palestinians
Protest Gaza Shutdown
, yet no protests to stop the daily rocket attacks that prompted it.

Obama, Huckabee and God: Blogger asks: is there a difference between the two candidates' religious proclamations?


THE CABAL
Monday Morning News Round-Up

The FBI Covering Up a Nuclear Spy Ring? What is it with the Feds? They are turning into the gang that could not shoot straight.

Human Rights Activist Murdered in Venezuela, after being branded a traitor on state TV. Will the Hollywood left drop Chavez?

Surprise – Sunni Allies of U.S. are being Targeted

 Update: Daniel Koffler adds:

The University of Sheffield in the UK commissioned a study on coulrophobia:

The study, reported in the Nursing Standard magazine, found all the 250 patients aged between 4 and 16 they quizzed disliked the use of clowns, with even the older ones finding them scary.

Two questions spring to mind: Have attitudes about clowns changed over the years? And especially if not, how is there still a clowning market? (Via Kerry Howley.)


THE CABAL
Morning News Roundup

Chris Matthews vs. Uppity Women: Hardball host Chris Matthews gets an earful from NOW, the Feminist Majority and Gloria Steinem over his anti-Hillary remarks. Although Matthews's statements were certainly insensitive, was his apology really "a victory for all women"?

I Heart Huckabee, Huckabee Heart Slavery: Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee told South Carolina voters that residents of other states have no business judging their retention of the confederate flag, which many American view as a symbol of racism. "[I]f somebody came to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we'd tell them what to do with the pole, that's what we'd do," Huckabee said.

$$$: The president is considering a tax rebate of $800 for every American in order to stimulate the economy. All we need to do is borrow $320 billion from China first.


THE CABAL
Afternoon News Roundup
Billion Dollar Bash
Merrill Lynch officially joins Morgan Stanley, Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers in reporting spectacular fourth-quarter losses. Their number: $9.8 billion. The optimistic reaction captured by Bloomberg is that this is the "kitchen sink" number, meaning, "we hope it's all written down and they've thrown in [everything including the] the kitchen sink." Oh, and the Dow’s down 300. Have a nice day.

So Insiders Like Change, Too?
A bit of a rough day for Senator Clinton’s camp: their lawsuit challenging voting in casinos was thrown out. Meanwhile, Politico reported that Senator Leahy endorsed Senator Obama and that there is division within the Congressional Black Caucus over whom to support. And over at The New Republic,
Yale and Yoo
Emily Bazelon, at Slate, says that the issues raised in the Padilla vs. Yoo lawsuit are ones that ought to be decided by the judiciary. Yoo, in his own defense, responds to his critics who are celebrating the lawsuit.

School Choice
If you thought season four of The Wire was pessimistic about the future of American education, just wait until you see how one of the last bastions of hope regarding educational reform is considering their cause. It's adrift because they realize that vouchers may drive the system to market based efficiencies, but it won't address specific pedagogical failures.

Keep Despair Alive
"Ay, in the very
temple of Delight/Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine"

Muscular Dialogues
New York Magazine interviews David Mamet about his new play. During the
Clinton years he contributed Wag the Dog to our political lexicon, and now he’s back to politics with November. Obviously, given his latest book (Bambi vs. Godzilla) and this play, he talks about art, commerce and politics. Ian McEwan discusses Saul Bellow, the adaptation of Atonement, that excruciating sex scene in On Chesil Beach and more.

Here’s Hoping Some People Do Burn In Hell
The New Yorker
covers the story that even stunned Jezebel into bona fide moral outrage.

I'm Quietly Judging You
Defamer shows that the whole Tom subplot in Magnolia was just a dry run for these ten unbearable minutes of smug bullshit. It sure was a lot more poetic when P.T. Anderson was writing your lines, right Tom? And, don’t you dare laugh at this. They’ll sue you.

Do They Speak English in "What?!"
The L.A. Weekly expresses shock and anger at the decision by the Academy Awards to not choose 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days or Persepolis as candidates for Best Foreign Film. The Criterion Collection publishes a fun essay on the problem of creating cover art for the Weimar-era hell that is Berlin Alexanderplatz. And RUN FOR YOUR LIVES !!! Yes, Cloverfield is, indeed, a 9/11 allegory. I’m shocked.