“I never lost sight of the meaning that I have, or would have. And that’s why ultimately we have to treat good publicity and bad publicity as being exactly the same. You can’t let the good go to your head, because therefore you must – if you are being true to yourself – you must believe the bad. So consequently I don’t believe anything. Which is very confusing on Thursday nights.” – Morrissey, in the latest GQ.
HAIKUS FOR JEWS: If you’re Jewish and haven’t had a laugh lately, I highly recommend this little book. I think I got most of the in-jokes, but then I worked at The New Republic for quite a while. (When Leon Wieseltier was once asked to describe TNR, he famously replied, “It’s kind of a Jewish Commentary.”) Anyway, here are two of my favorites, because it’s, er, Tuesday:
Left the door open
tfor the Prophet Elijah.
Now our cat is gone.
And this little gem:
The sparkling blue sea
beckons me to wait one hour
tafter my sandwich
It’s the way you tell ’em, I guess.
SHELBY STEELE, SEPARATIST: I’ve long admired the writer and thinker, Shelby Steele, for his refusal to allow race to become a way to separate Americans into different camps, to be treated in different institutions, or to be governed by different public standards. So why is a man dedicated to the fight against separatism in favor of it when it comes to gays? Why is someone who is an old-fashioned liberal on the matter of race, such a leftist on the issue of homosexuality? I try and figure it out here.
The Dish 