http://dir.salon.com/topics/joan_walsh_misc/?source=rss&aim=joan_walsh_misc en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:07:00 PDT By Joan Walsh Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2009/07/07/jackson_memorial/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2009/07/07/jackson_memorial/index.html?source=rss A huge talent, a racial pioneer and a very sad, strange man gets a surreal celebrity send-off. Why did I watch? By Joan Walsh Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2009/06/24/vacation/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2009/06/24/vacation/index.html?source=rss See you June 30! By Joan Walsh Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2009/01/16/bush_farewell/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2009/01/16/bush_farewell/index.html?source=rss Bush's goodbye address is a festival of self-pity and delusion. By Joan Walsh Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2008/03/10/wendell_pierce/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2008/03/10/wendell_pierce/index.html?source=rss If you found the show's bleak view of the inner city too depressing, you'll love Wendell Pierce's New Orleans rebuilding project. By Joan Walsh Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/11/15/colbert_springsteen/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/11/15/colbert_springsteen/index.html?source=rss We came up with a new list of hot men for 2007, but we still love the guys from last year, too. By Joan Walsh Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/11/06/schumer_mukasey/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/11/06/schumer_mukasey/index.html?source=rss Why did the New York Democrat cave in to Bush on Mukasey? By Joan Walsh Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/11/05/bush_crying/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/11/05/bush_crying/index.html?source=rss George H.W. Bush gets teary talking about a time when American soldiers treated prisoners with respect. By Joan Walsh Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/11/04/waterboarding_schumer/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/11/04/waterboarding_schumer/index.html?source=rss Americans knew the practice was torture back when we prosecuted the Japanese for using it after World War II. By Joan Walsh Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/10/30/mukasey/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/10/30/mukasey/index.html?source=rss Should Mukasey be confirmed as attorney general if he can't say whether waterboarding is torture? By Joan Walsh Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/10/10/perino/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/10/10/perino/index.html?source=rss Couldn't the White House find someone competent to succeed Tony Snow? By Joan Walsh Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/09/12/ad/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/09/12/ad/index.html?source=rss More kinky fantasies from wacky right-wingers! By Joan Walsh Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/07/17/vacation/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/07/17/vacation/index.html?source=rss Unfortunately, big news or not, I'm leaving on vacation -- I'll be back July 24. By Joan Walsh Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/06/25/cheney/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/06/25/cheney/index.html?source=rss He went too far for John Yoo and Ted Olson? More from the chilling Washington Post series on the vice president. By Joan Walsh Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/06/10/hilton_pace_libby/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/06/10/hilton_pace_libby/index.html?source=rss Looking at Paris Hilton, seeing George W. Bush. By Joan Walsh Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/05/31/esfandiari/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/05/31/esfandiari/index.html?source=rss They fear George Soros, as well as women's rights advocates. Behind the troubling arrest of Haleh Esfandiari and other Iranian reformers. By Joan Walsh Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/05/22/mckinnon/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/05/22/mckinnon/index.html?source=rss How Mark McKinnon helped the White House fight the Salon columnist's charges against Alberto Gonzales. By Joan Walsh Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/05/16/wolfowitz/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/05/16/wolfowitz/index.html?source=rss Why should he -- or the Bush administration -- get a face-saving exit deal? The World Bank should fire his ass. Plus: My favorite things on Salon right now. By Joan Walsh Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/05/11/colbert_fonda/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/05/11/colbert_fonda/index.html?source=rss I couldn't watch when Jane Fonda sat on his lap and caressed the talk show host. Am I a prude? By Joan Walsh Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/05/08/bush_queen/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/05/08/bush_queen/index.html?source=rss With his bizarre gaffes on Monday, Bush managed to insult Queen Elizabeth and his mother -- a second time. By Joan Walsh Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/05/05/corrections/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/05/05/corrections/index.html?source=rss Bush's approval rating is in fact in the 20s now, but did I really misspell Will Ferrell's name? A few other corrections and updates. By Joan Walsh Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/04/16/va_tech_gonzales/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/04/16/va_tech_gonzales/index.html?source=rss A two-day testimony delay won't help the attorney general, who says "to my knowledge" he didn't target U.S. attorneys for replacement. But how much doesn't he know? Maybe he should talk to Scooter Libby? By Joan Walsh Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/04/05/donohue_scarborough/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/04/05/donohue_scarborough/index.html?source=rss It's Holy Thursday, and on "Scarborough Country" we're debating whether the media is persecuting Christians. Guess which side I'm on. By Joan Walsh Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/03/30/no_chocolate_jesus/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/03/30/no_chocolate_jesus/index.html?source=rss And a defeat for the rest of us -- no chocolate Jesus at New York hotel. By Joan Walsh Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/03/29/chocolate_jesus/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/03/29/chocolate_jesus/index.html?source=rss The Catholic League bully is fixated on the cocoa genitals of a 6-foot sculpture of Christ on the cross, but I see a sly play on Easter commercialism and the myth of a white Jesus. By Joan Walsh Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/03/23/attorneys_firing/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2007/03/23/attorneys_firing/index.html?source=rss Only five of almost 500 attorneys have been fired midterm in the last 25 years. Can we stop saying what Bush did is just what every president does?