Gossip, speculation, and scuttlebutt about politics.

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• Unmemorialized Notables of 2005 Nobody notices when you die between Christmas and New Year's.
  Timothy Noah Dec. 30, 2005
  
• The Peace Epidemic The world isn't so dangerous after all.
  Timothy Noah Dec. 29, 2005
  
• Whopper: George W. Bush The president crosses his fingers behind his back.
  Timothy Noah Dec. 21, 2005
  
• Charol Shakeshaft, Topped! A Yellow Pages of aptronyms.
  Timothy Noah Dec. 16, 2005
  
• Top "Charol Shakeshaft"! Wherein readers are invited to submit a name that comments on the bearer's occupation.
  Timothy Noah Dec. 13, 2005
  
• Lieutenants by the Bushel Al-Zarqawi's top-heavy army.
  Timothy Noah Dec. 9, 2005
  
• Al-Qaida's Rule of Threes Why are all al-Qaida captives "No. 3"?
  Timothy Noah Dec. 5, 2005
  
• Author, Author Touring for a book I didn't write.
  Timothy Noah Dec. 5, 2005
  
• Bush's Tookie Remembering Bush's worst public moment.
  Timothy Noah Dec. 2, 2005
  
• Objective Correlative Watch A new occasional series in which the inanimate world comments on human folly.
  Timothy Noah Nov. 29, 2005
  
• Bush Abandonment Watch, Part 9 Daniel Pipes: Bush messed up my pretty war!
  Timothy Noah Nov. 15, 2005
  
• Bush Abandonment Watch, Part 8 Typhoid Dubya strikes New Jersey.
  Timothy Noah Nov. 14, 2005
  
• Bush Abandonment Watch, Part 7 Rick Santorum pulls a Kilgore.
  Timothy Noah Nov. 10, 2005
  
• Bush Abandonment Watch, Part 6 Rep. J.D. Hayworth tells it like it is.
  Timothy Noah Nov. 10, 2005
  
• Malek's List, Part 6 Maybe I just imagined that Fred Malek counted Jews in Richard Nixon's Bureau of Labor Statistics …
  Timothy Noah Nov. 7, 2005
  
• Bush Abandonment Watch, Part 5 Conservatism's godfather refuses to shrug off the Plame leak.
  Timothy Noah Nov. 3, 2005
  
• Alito's Secret Pinko Past! "[A]ction must be taken on many fronts now to preserve privacy."
  Timothy Noah Nov. 2, 2005
  
• Gap in Alito Paper Trail! Plus, the only even vaguely colorful Alito anecdote.
  Timothy Noah Nov. 1, 2005
  
• Bush Abandonment Watch, Part 4 Et tu, Silvio?
  Timothy Noah Oct. 31, 2005
  
• Cheney Dodges a Bullet, Part 2 Wherein Chatterbox admits a minor error.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 28, 2005
  
• Cheney Dodges a Bullet How Cheney's week could have gotten even more miserable.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 27, 2005
  
• Zen News The art of reporting that nothing happened.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 26, 2005
  
• Bush Abandonment Watch, Part 3 Sununu sinks the shiv.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 25, 2005
  
• Bush Abandonment Watch, Part 2 A former State Department bigwig unloads.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 21, 2005
  
• Found Object: DeLay's Mug Shot Book him, Dan-o.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 20, 2005
  
• The Birthday Caretaker A Pinter play in one act.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 14, 2005
  
• Bush Abandonment Watch Wherein we note defections by once-loyal allies.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 13, 2005
  
• Goodwin's Bluff That corrected edition of The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys? It never materialized.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 11, 2005
  
• Moore vs. Bush The rematch.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 5, 2005
  
• Susan Lucci in Judicial Robes A brief history of Edith Jones, eternal Supreme Court also-ran.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 3, 2005
  
• Volokh Retracts A second look persuades him that Ginsburg did not condone pedophilia.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 1, 2005
  
• Lindsey Graham's Smear, Part 2 Chatterbox answers his critics.
  Timothy Noah Sept. 29, 2005
  
• I Am Goldberg Years ago, the Times turned me down because I was white. So what?
  Timothy Noah Sept. 28, 2005
  
• Santorum's Mighty Wind, Part 2 If you can't lick 'em, spoof 'em.
  Timothy Noah Sept. 27, 2005
  
• The Puppies and Kittens Act of 2005 Tom Lantos courts the cockapoo vote.
  Timothy Noah Sept. 22, 2005
  
• Customer Service Heaven An occasional series ferreting out hard-to-find phone numbers.
  Timothy Noah Sept. 21, 2005
  
• Lindsey Graham's Smear No, Ruth Bader Ginsburg does not advocate pederasty.
  Timothy Noah Sept. 16, 2005
  
• Low Morale at Homeland Security Only the Small Business Administration has unhappier employees.
  Timothy Noah Sept. 14, 2005
  
• Auto Lobbyist Reformed? It's a long road to Damascus, pal.
  Timothy Noah Sept. 13, 2005
  
• The Truth About Cats and Dogs That New Orleans policeman was right to confiscate Snowball.
  Timothy Noah Sept. 12, 2005
  
• Joe Allbaugh, Disaster Pimp "I don't buy the 'revolving door' argument," said Bush's former FEMA chief.
  Timothy Noah Sept. 7, 2005
  
• Whopper: George W. Bush They've been "anticipating" a levee breach since 1832.
  Timothy Noah Sept. 5, 2005
  
• Summer-House Lit, Part 2 Why can't journalists resist the trap?
  Timothy Noah Sept. 2, 2005
  
• Summer-House Lit, Part 1 On not owning a vacation home.
  Timothy Noah Sept. 1, 2005
  
• Robertson Attacks Israel! Have the end times begun?
  Timothy Noah Aug. 30, 2005
  
• Pat Robertson's Hit List It isn't only Chavez he wants gone.
  Timothy Noah Aug. 26, 2005
  
• Chatterbox Answers Lott! I know just how Bill Frist feels.
  Timothy Noah Aug. 24, 2005
  
• Ask Ayatollah Sistani! What the Iraqi Constitution will and won't allow.
  Timothy Noah Aug. 23, 2005
  
• Iraqi Constitution Contest Winners Slate readers take a whack at the intractable question of how to govern Iraq.
  Timothy Noah Aug. 18, 2005
  
• Write Iraq's Constitution! A contest inviting readers to tackle what the Iraqis cannot.
  Timothy Noah Aug. 16, 2005
  
• Bob Ney, Character Witness Congressmen: the last great bargain in America.
  Timothy Noah Aug. 15, 2005
  
• Tom DeLay, Opera Buff I'm not making this up. I swear.
  Timothy Noah Aug. 11, 2005
  
• Calling iTunes, Part 2 Wherein it is revealed that our quarry is a phantom.
  Timothy Noah Aug. 10, 2005
  
• Calling iTunes An occasional series that ferrets out hard-to-find customer service phone numbers.
  Timothy Noah Aug. 8, 2005
  
• Adultery's Golden Age When the press went to bed with Wendell Willkie.
  Timothy Noah Aug. 4, 2005
  
• Santorum's Mighty Wind The AccuWeather Protection Act of 2005.
  Timothy Noah Aug. 2, 2005
  
• Roberts Nickname Contest Results! What Bush will call his Supreme Court nominee.
  Timothy Noah July 27, 2005
  
• Roberts Nickname Contest! What belittling nickname will President Bush give his new Supreme Court nominee?
  Timothy Noah July 25, 2005
  
• Malek's List, Cont'd The Jews he probably got fired forgive him. That doesn't mean we have to.
  Timothy Noah July 22, 2005
  
• Mr. Justice Junior The new Supreme Court nominee has the same name as his father and his son. Is that a problem?
  Timothy Noah July 20, 2005
  
• 9/11 Was No Summer Movie Steven Spielberg spins popcorn entertainment from the terrorist attacks.
  Timothy Noah July 19, 2005
  
• Karl Rove Death Watch, Part 4 What did Hadley tell Rove?
  Timothy Noah July 18, 2005
  
• Rove Death Watch, Part 3 Did Rove recycle reporters' gossip?
  Timothy Noah July 15, 2005
  
• Rove Death Watch, Part 2 Wherein your correspondent corrects some misconceptions.
  Timothy Noah July 13, 2005
  
• Rove Death Watch, Part 1 Uh oh. Now the White House is saying Rove has Bush's "full confidence."
  Timothy Noah July 12, 2005
  
• Turd Blossom Must Go There is no moral case for keeping Karl Rove on the government payroll.
  Timothy Noah July 11, 2005
  
• Jews for Malek The rise of a cult.
  Timothy Noah July 8, 2005
  
• Oedipus Bob It's no picnic being Bob Woodward's daddy.
  Timothy Noah July 7, 2005
  
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  Timothy Noah July 6, 2005
  
• Valerie Plame, Nude! Well, without sunglasses and a scarf, anyway.
  Timothy Noah July 6, 2005
  
• Watergate's Second Smoking Gun Mark Felt, nicotine fiend.
  Timothy Noah July 1, 2005
  
• Malek's Free Ride, Cont'd. Think the New York Times might be interested in a story about anti-Semitism? Naaah.
  Timothy Noah June 30, 2005
  
• Farewell to Berlin More on why the composer of "God Bless America" probably didn't parody "You're the Top."
  Timothy Noah June 29, 2005
  
• The Proofing Avenger An occasional series ripping off The New Yorker's "newsbreak" feature.
  Timothy Noah June 26, 2005
  
• We Are All Choctaw Jack Abramoff, symptom.
  Timothy Noah June 23, 2005
  
• Birth of a Catchphrase Jack Abramoff enriches the language.
  Timothy Noah June 22, 2005
  
• Another Porter Riddle! Who wrote the parody lyrics to "You're the Top"?
  Timothy Noah June 22, 2005
  
• Scooped Again The Post got beat on another Deep Throat story. This time it's trying to pretend it didn't.
  Timothy Noah June 21, 2005
  
• Drumstick Lipstick, Explained! A decades-long mystery is solved.
  Timothy Noah June 16, 2005
  
• Abolish Michael Kinsley! Why editorial pages are obsolete.
  Timothy Noah June 14, 2005
  
• Bloomsday for Dummies A skeleton key to "You're the Top."
  Timothy Noah June 9, 2005
  
• I Am Deep Throat Posties and Slatesters get into the confessional spirit.
  Timothy Noah June 7, 2005
  
• Woodstein's Misdirections Lying to protect Mark Felt from being exposed.
  Timothy Noah June 3, 2005
  
• Were Felt's Leaks Illegal? Probably. But he still shouldn't have worried.
  Timothy Noah June 1, 2005
  
• Deep Throat, Antihero His unmasking makes everybody look a little less noble.
  Timothy Noah May 31, 2005
  
• Fox News Admits Bias! Its London bureau chief blurts out the political slant that dare not speak its name.
  Timothy Noah May 31, 2005
  
• Colin Powell, Frontman The former secretary of state spruces up Fred Malek's image.
  Timothy Noah May 26, 2005
  
• The Mr. Smith Fallacy Was screening Frank Capra's classic the true nuclear option?
  Timothy Noah May 24, 2005
  
• Friedman Agonistes Will the New York Times columnist read himself?
  Timothy Noah May 23, 2005
  
• Columnists for Sale: The Tally Slate voters rank the New York Times op-ed stable.
  Timothy Noah May 20, 2005
  
• Exile-Loving Democrats The Democratic Party is starting to enjoy its wilderness years.
  Timothy Noah May 17, 2005
  
• Columnists for Sale The New York Times's risky experiment.
  Timothy Noah May 17, 2005
  
• Celebrity Blogging Arianna's latest catch.
  Timothy Noah May 13, 2005
  
• Reincarnation Confirmed! The startling results of modeling King Tut's face.
  Andy Bowers May 13, 2005
  
• The No-Shoot Zone. The real reason to fear that Cessna.
  Timothy Noah May 11, 2005
  
• Conservatism As Pathology Are Bush supporters literally insane?
  Timothy Noah May 10, 2005
  
• More Racist Ice Cream! Germany's Negerkuss.
  Timothy Noah May 3, 2005
  
• Clinton and Creativity Is you is or is you ain't an artist?
  Timothy Noah May 2, 2005
  
• John Bolton, Wimp A Vietnam hawk who remained stateside.
  Timothy Noah April 30, 2005
  
• Jack Abramoff's School Days The making of a sleazeball.
  Timothy Noah April 27, 2005
  
• Filibuster on the Cross Why the Christian right would be nuts to eliminate the filibuster.
  Timothy Noah April 25, 2005
  
• MooLatte, Bested Please welcome an even more race-baiting ice cream product.
  Timothy Noah April 22, 2005
  
• Hammer Agonistes Tom DeLay plays victim.
  Timothy Noah April 21, 2005
  
• Let the Filibuster Die Why Bill Frist's "nuclear option" doesn't go far enough.
  Timothy Noah April 19, 2005
  
• Fleischer Watch, Part 3 The wolf who cried bias.
  Timothy Noah March 29, 2005
  
• Fleischer Watch, Part 2 Ari wanders off-message.
  Timothy Noah March 17, 2005
  
• The Fleischer Watch Introducing an ongoing inquiry into dishonest or insane assertions buried inside Ari Fleischer's White House memoir.
  Timothy Noah March 15, 2005
  
• Socialized Medicine, Part 2 Who ever said computers were perfect?
  Timothy Noah March 9, 2005
  
• The Triumph of Socialized Medicine Right here in the USA.
  Timothy Noah March 9, 2005
  
• Vladimir Putin, Faithless Elector The Russian president embraces our Electoral College.
  Timothy Noah Feb. 25, 2005
  
• The Wal-Mart Manifesto The retail giant's CEO says his company pays workers handsomely. He doesn't want you to believe him.
  Timothy Noah Feb. 24, 2005
  
• Rehnquist Wasn't Deep Throat The latest wild theory about Woodstein's blind source.
  Timothy Noah Feb. 14, 2005
  
• Super Bowl Suckers Buying an ad on TV's most-watched event makes no economic sense.
  Timothy Noah Feb. 9, 2005
  
• Whopper: George W. Bush Read his lips.
  Timothy Noah Feb. 3, 2005
  
• "Sosul Security" A phonics lesson for the president.
  Timothy Noah Feb. 2, 2005
  
• The Wristband Gap, Part 2 Awareness bracelets and the tragedy of the commons.
  Timothy Noah Feb. 1, 2005
  
• The Wristband Gap Why is 7-Eleven chintzier than Nike?
  Timothy Noah Jan. 13, 2005
  
• Gonzales' Client Republicans no longer deny that the White House counsel's job is to be the president's lawyer.
  Timothy Noah Jan. 12, 2005
  
• "I Am Not A Flunky" Speaker Hastert declares his independence. Again.
  Timothy Noah Jan. 4, 2005