By Drew Grant 8/16/12 1:02pm

WIKILEAKS

Outside the Ecuadorian embassy, where Julian Assange may or may not have flushed the toilet (Getty Images)

New York Times’s Article on Julian Assange’s Ecuadorian Asylum Scrubs Toilet Reference

Poor Julian Assange … even his bowel movements are being censored.

The WikiLeaks founder was granted asylum in Ecuador today, after two months holed up in the the country’s British embassy, where he was avoiding the long arm of Sweden’s justice system. (Britain, understandably, is not happy about this.)

Despite the good news for Mr. Assange, a tweet from the official WikiLeaks account took offense at The New York Times’s coverage of the story, which, it claims, “alleges that Mr. Assange neglected to flush a tiolet” [sic] even once the whole time he was in the embassy.

“We’re not joking.”

They’re not? Because search as we might, we couldn’t find a single reference to toilets in the entire NYT piece from last night, or in any of its follow-up articles. We were about to chalk it up to a misread (after all … “tiolet”) on WikiLeaks’ part, until  a Google News search revealed that the original article did mention Toilet-gate: Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 6/26/12 9:15am

Fanboys

Health Care Advocates Hold March Into Capitol Hill Office Building

Patch Adams is Real, Really Supports Julian Assange

Patch Adams, MD, the clown doctor portrayed by Robin Williams in the eponymous 1998 film, has joined several dozen prominent figures of the American Left in asking Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa to grant WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange political asylum.

“The ‘crime’ that he has committed is that of practicing journalism,” states the letter, delivered to the Embassy of Ecuador in London yesterday by American advocacy group Just Foreign Policy.  Read More

By Anna Shapiro 8/29/05 12:00am

Wavering Charmingly, Our Hero Meets His Match

The inability to make a decision turns out to be a rich comic subject.

I think.

In any case, it’s the problem of Dwight Wilmerding, the likably indecisive narrator of Indecision. One may wonder why someone likable has to be saddled with such a name (though maybe not, coming from an author stuck with Kunkel), Read More