Though Harper’s calls itself America’s oldest “general interest magazine,” it’s not likely to be of interest to anyone who uses the word “liberal” in a negative sense, as in “them dang liberals are gonna wreck our families and take our guns.” But if you’re looking for a free, quirky, bite-sized e-mail round-up to keep you in the loop, Harper’s Weekly just may be the best. I’ve subscribed for months now and there’s no spam, no hassle, just a clever sum-up every Tuesday. Here’s a sample:
“Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made his first state visit to Iraq and assailed the Bush Administration. “They will have to accept the facts in the area,” he said. “The Iraqi people do not like the Americans.” White House aide Timothy Goeglein, a liaison to conservatives and Christian groups, was found to have plagiarized 20 of the 38 columns he wrote for the Fort Wayne, Indiana, News-Sentinel, and a Belgian woman now living in Massachusetts apologized for fabricating her memoir, Misha: A Memoir of the Holocaust Years; researchers examining her story discovered that she is not Jewish and that she was not, as a child, adopted by a pack of wolves that accompanied her across Europe as she searched for her parents. Questions arose as to whether John McCain, born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936, was a “natural-born citizen” and thus constitutionally eligible for the presidency.”
“McCain held a casual barbecue for the press, cooking Costco ribs on a low heat with a dry rub of equal parts salt, pepper, and garlic powder. For dessert the press ate brownies and cookies. William F. Buckley Jr. and didgeridoo master Alan Dargin died. British researchers hypothesized that a form of spongiform encephalopathy — akin to mad cow disease and transmitted by cannibalism — killed off the Neanderthals, and Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer, speaking before Congress following the recall of 143 million pounds of beef packed at the Westland/Hallmark plant in Chino, California, refused to support an outright ban on processing “downer” cows for food, even though such cows are by definition too weak or sick to stand. The World Health Organization announced that virtually untreatable drug-resistant tuberculosis could now be found in 45 countries with a half-million new cases each year, and that the highest rate of infection was in Baku, Azerbaijan.”
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