“They lashed out at Dr. King, they lashed out at Nelson Mandela, they lashed out at Jesus, so all of those who fight for change become the object of frustration,” – Jesse Jackson, explaining why some people object to his brand of gesture-politics.
POSEUR ALERT II: “His conversation is quick, emphatic, torrential – it comes in complete paragraphs, which themselves come complete with footnotes, jokes and marginalia. The word “dialectic” puts in frequent appearances, and questions about God are liable to be answered with references to 18th-century astronomers.” – from the latest New York Times puff-piece on Tony Kushner. There’s also a lovely Freudian slip in the text, as a friend pointed out to me in an email: “The writer quotes Kushner: ‘Brecht was like a light bulb going off.’ Leaving the fledgling dramatist in complete darkness, it seems.”
MEME WATCH: A useful debunking of the latest anti-Bush canard: that he doesn’t go to soldiers’ funerals.
The Dish 