Candide's Notebooks Essays by Pierre Tristam: 2006 Archive

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Note: This archive indexes only Pierre's 2006 essays in The Notebooks, not including the Tuesday Column and other writings. For the comprehensive archives—all categories, 2005 to 2007— go here.

Notebooks Essays and (Occasional) Shorter Writings, 2006

Jan. 4—Homeland Security Sham: A West Virginia Parable
Jan. 9—Vietnam, Iraq and the Coming Ruin
Jan. 12—Badgering Edmund Wilson
Jan. 13—Mean Streak: From Clarence Thomas to Samuel Alito
Jan. 18—How Scalia's Shamanism Shapes John Roberts's Court
Jan. 19—Human Rights Whacked
Jan. 20—Brokeback Wal-Mart
Jan. 23—The Gist: Globalism in Your Pocket
Jan. 24—Iraqi "Reconstruction" by Bush Sopranos
Jan. 27—Hamas Rules: The Mideast's Latest Bush-Pulled Elections
Jan. 28—L'Infame: Bush Administration Beds Down With Iran

Feb. 1—Shame of the Union: A Radioactive Presidency
Feb. 2—Cartoongate, the U.S. Version: Solidarity with Bigotry While Pentagon Goes Wahhabite
Feb. 7—War, Tax Cuts, Deficits, Depression
Feb. 9—Gulags and Repression as U.S. Exports: We're All Americans Now
Feb. 10—A Good Day for an Olympic Boycott
Feb. 11—NBC's Neocon Olympics
Feb. 16—Tipping Toward High Crimes: Terror and Deception as Affairs of State
Feb. 17—Of Boot Camps and Abu Ghraib
Feb. 24—How American "Nation-Building" Fueled Iraq's Civil War
Feb. 25—Dubai Ports Deal: Yes, the Reaction Was Racist; But So Is U.S.'s World View
Feb. 27—William Buckley's Cronkite Moment: "Acknowledgment of Defeat" in Iraq

March 1—World War Lost
March 2—Bush and Katrina: The Smoking Gun on Tape
March 5—Conservatives' Hollywood Complex
March 6—A Note to Readers on the Redesign at The Notebooks
March 9—Iraq: The Making of a Civil War
March 10—Beliefs, Superstitions, Lies
March 13—Iraq's Civil Wars, and Ours
March 15—Bush's Road Show: Improvised Presidential Device
March 21—Johann Sebastian Bach's 321st Birthday: A Musical Celebration
March 23—Islamic Law Blowback
March 24—Free Hao Wu: Why Bush Is Unfit to Speak for the Wrongfully Imprisoned
March 27—Wealth and Plutocracy
March 30—Plausible Deniability: When America Is the Rogue
March 31—Prayer's Demeaning Power

April 4—"God's Eye View" and Confederate Flags
April 5—Blog Comments and Straw Men
April 6—Puppeteering a Kiss-Ass Press
April 8—Anti-Americanism Left and Right
April 12—Porn and Beans
April 13—April 13, 1975: Lebanon's War and Memory
April 17—Left-Wing profiling
April 18—The Pulitzers: Degradation in Black and Print
April 20—To Shill or Be Shrill: Pussyfooting Around Bush Impeachment
April 24—James Baker Returns
April 26—Jane Jacobs, Prophet
April 27—Another Fourth-Estate Funeral: Sayonara, Knight-Ridder
April 29—As Long as We're Talking Anthems
April 29—Blogs vs. Mainstream media

May 1—Chris Penley's Fatal Bullies
May 2—Jean-Francois Revel's Mistake
May 4—9/11 Memorial Blight
May 6—Bush's War on Intelligence
May 7—When Trees Fall
May 10—Never a Farewell, Taylor
May 11—Michiko Kakutani Does Bush
May 13—Boots on Our Necks
May 17—Anti-Immigrant Racism Then and Now
May 18—John McCain's Demons
May 26—The Few, the Proud, the Murderers
May 29—The Wrong Way to Support the Troops
May 31—A Massacre. A President "Troubled"

June 2—Guantanamo's Chained Innocents
June 6—John Updike Brandishes a Box-Cutter
June 7—Saddam, the Model
June 8—Zip-Locking Zarqawi
June 9—My Unconditional Surrender to Total Football
June 10—Israeli-Palestinian Terror: Stray Shell
June 12—Gitmo Suicides
June 13—Baghdad Drop-Kick: The President in His Labyrinth
June 16—Bush: Shady Intelligence, Blind Assumptions
June 20—American Lives, Iraqi Props: On the Killing of Thomas Tucker and Kristian Menchaca
June 26—Bush Against the Press
June 29—Florida Swamped: Warming Maw

July 3—Put the Shuttle Out of Its Misery
July 5—Thomas Friedman's Toxic Tourism
July 8—North Korea, Bush Ally
July 13—Lebanon War: Israel's Malice
July 14—Lebanon War: A Savage and Unwinnable Gambit
July 16—Lebanon War: Amos Oz on How to Cure a Fanatic
July 19—Lebanon War: Bush to Lebanon: Drop Dead
July 19—The Perpetual Refugee
July 21—Lebanon War: Reagan's "Outrage," Bush's Silence
July 23—Terror's Weaponry
July 26—Gang-Raping Lebanon
July 27—Neither Israel Nor Hezbollah
July 30—When "Never Again" Needn't Apply to Lebanon

Aug. 2—In My Father's Court: Baalbek
Aug. 3—Lebanon War: A Premeditated War, Planned in 2005
Aug. 4—Iraq: Dude, Here's Your Civil War
Aug. 4—Room for Disagreement: In Defense of Hezbollah, In Defense of Israel's Self-Defense
Aug. 6—Retaliation's Mutual Injustice
Aug. 7—Philip Roth's "Everyman"
Aug. 9—The Pictures are Fake. The Butchery Isn't
Aug. 11—Britain's Airline Plot: When Terror Is the Foil
Aug. 13—Lebanon War: Cease-Fire Fantasies
Aug. 17—The Stoning of Gunter Grass
Aug. 18—Bush's NSA Fetish: A Brief Hangup on Wiretaps
Aug. 21—Lieberman, L'Immoraliste
Aug. 23—How Bush Won His War and Defeated the Constitution
Aug. 25—Health and Unreason: The Prod that Tries Men's Souls
Aug. 17—Katrina's Cakewalk Conquerors
Aug. 28—Porn for Troops: From Massacre to Lap-Dance
Aug. 30—Dawn of a Second-Rate Economy

Sept. 1—How Stupor Killed the Fourth Estate
Sept. 3—Jarheads: Romancing the Brutes
Sept. 6—Bush Co-Hosts D.C. With Osama
Sept. 7—Gitmo's Tribunals Get Their Star Kangaroo
Sept. 8 —Al-Qaeda Video Awards
Sept. 9—Bush Lies, Part 2,038
Sept. 13—Assassinating George Bush: In Defense of "D.O.A.P"
Sept. 14—Islamic Law in the Netherlands?
Sept. 15—Katie Couric at CBS: The End of the World News
Sept. 20—Bush at the U.N., in Camouflage
Sept. 21—David Brooks, Grand Mufti
Sept. 22—Tortured Tribunals, et. al.: Monkey Trials After All
Sept. 27—It Is Iraq, Stupid
Sept. 28—Pakistan & Afghanistan: Osama's Ambassadors in Washington

Oct. 2—State of Denial: Woodward At War
Oct. 3—When the U.S. Fakes a Terror Threat
Oct. 4—Bill Frist and Mel Martinez Get Cozy with the Taliban
Oct. 5—Evangelical Taliban Does CBS Evening News
Oct. 6—In Defense of Michelle Malkin
Oct. 9—Dark Times for Free Soeech: A Bacchanal of Rushdie Affairs
Oct. 12—Deficit Defrocked: W's Voodoo Economics
Oct. 18—What We Live For: The Flagler Youth Orchestra
Oct. 19—Flags of Our Liars: From Iwo Jima to Baghdad
Oct. 20—The Case of Salah Choudhury, "Seditious" Journalist
Oct. 21—The American Way of Gore: Casualties of War: Dead, Buried, Discarded
Oct. 22—Speaking of Inquisitions: From Dostoevsky to GWB
Oct. 24—Florida Press Club Awards
Oct. 25—"Stay the Course" Yields to "Git-R-Done"
Oct. 26—Stem Cell Lies and the Liars Who Peddle Them
Oct. 27—When Religion Is the Rapist
Oct. 27—Torture's Cheerleaders
Oct. 28—Press Freedom Free-Fall: The United States in 53rd Place
Oct. 30—Halloween Ballot

Nov. 1—Feedlot to Slaughter: The Real Insult to the U.S. Military
Nov. 2—A Poll's Black and Blue Marks, or Why Americans Still Don't Get It
Nov. 2—Pentagon Goes J-School: Massaging the News
Nov. 3—Holocaust Protocol: Denying Genocide Deniers
Nov. 6—Outlawing Creative Subversions
Nov. 7—Your Midterm Election Predictions
Nov. 7—Midterm Madness: Election Night Commentary and Beyond
Nov. 8—Why Democrats Should Win Only One House of Congress
Nov. 9—The Skeletons in Robert Gates's Basement
Nov. 10—Fame, Vomiting and Lesbian Sex
Nov. 12—Intellectual Poverty: Art, Expression, and the Parody of Property
Nov. 14—Whose Freedom? Whose Responsibility? The 2006 Values Council Lecture, Stetson University
Nov. 14—Dowland-de Maistre Smackdown
Nov. 15—Censoring Al-Jazeera
Nov. 16—Security's Hungers, or How the U.S. Government Vanished Hunger
Nov. 17—Maureen Dowd's Colbert & Stewart Routine: The Rolling Stone Interview
Nov. 20—Israel's and America's Blooming Blunders
Nov. 22— This Way to Lebanon's Gas Chambers
Nov. 23—Robert Novak, Caudillo's Knave
Nov. 27—Revenge of the Home-Schoolers
Nov. 29—Ngo Din Diem in Baghdad: Prelude to Assassination
Nov. 29—Plagiarism With a Human Face
Nov. 30—The Christian Coalition's Error

Dec. 1—Mutilating God, Genitals and the Enlightenment
Dec. 4—Iraq Sullen Group
Dec. 6—The Most Important Lists. Ever. (On The Atlantic's 100 Most Influential Americans)
Dec. 7—Iraq Study Group: The Lessons Missed
Dec. 11—Chain-Gang Journalism: Groveling for Advertisers
Dec. 13—Israel in Palestine: You Mean It's Not Apartheid?
Dec. 14—Conservative Laugh Track: A Graveyard of Comedy in Hollywood
Dec. 15—As Bush Loiters: A Christmas Toll
Dec. 18—Emmanuelle's Children: Advertising and the Latest Addicts
Dec. 20—Is Al Qaeda Finished?
Dec. 21—Teen Sex in Stalinist Georgia: The Case of Genarlow Wilson
Dec. 22—Marine Massacre at Haditha: Murderers, and Casualties of War
Dec. 27—Gerald Ford: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Dec. 28—Demonism's DNA: "2,973" and the Meanings of the 9/11 Victims
Dec. 29—Wounded Knee, With Arabic Subtitles
Dec. 30—The Assassination of Saddam: Texas Justice by Rope

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