Stories In The New York Times How retro: 2011’s hot new trend is. . . anti-semitism! just today, in the front section alone: Yemen’s beleaguered president Ali Abdullah Saleh blames Israel and the US for uprisings in the Arab world; hotshit Dior designer John Galliano (now ex-) is going to face charges for saying that he loves Hitler and other ugly remarks about people getting gassed; and Wikileaks prophet Julian Assange suggested that British journalists, including the editor of The Guardian Alan Rusbridger, were engaged in a Jewish-led conspiracy to smear his organization (The accused conspirator Rusbridger, as it happens, is not Jewish.) Quite a clot of nasty stories. But this is how you can tell Charlie Sheen is so ahead of the curve: he made his anti-Semitic Chaim Levine comment last week, and beat the rush.
