Bruce Watson: Sam the Scam takes your questions
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
LEVERETT — Only a year ago, my longtime scandal consultant was unemployed. Scandal was “sooo Bush-Clinton,” Sam the Scam told me. Unable to even get on Fox News, Sam changed his name to Carl the Con and answered questions on conspiracies, from birthers to global warming. But last week, Sam woke up thinking he’d died and gone to heaven. After lining up freelance gigs, he called. “I’mmmmmm baaaaack” he said. …
Monday, May 20, 2013
NORTHAMPTON — Conflicts in the Middle East, particularly the long-term Israeli-Palestinian struggle for domination of the land, are perhaps the most intractable human struggles on the planet, fueled as they are by religion, history, politics, economics and access to precious resources such as water. The new U.S. secretary of state, John Kerry, has …
Sunday, May 19, 2013
NORTHAMPTON — Ordinarily, the streets of Tel Aviv are full of people, congregating in cafés, shopping, or just being seen. However, on Sunday, April 14, my third day in Israel, ordinary unfolded into extraordinary. By 7 p.m., a stillness overcame the streets of this cosmopolitan city. At 7:55 p.m., the city’s main square, named Kikar Rabin for Israel’s assassinated prime minister, filled with …