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The Steubenville rape
The young men in the Steubenville rape case are guilty and responsible for their actions, and need to pay the penalty. However—and I say this without any weakening of my contention that the above sentence is true—the entire incident highlights … Continue reading →
Cyprus: does this make sense?
To save the Cyprus banking system, they have to destroy people’s faith in it. Does that make any sense to you? It doesn’t to me. Ah, but they promise they won’t do it again—just this once! But why would anyone … Continue reading →
The MSM won the Iraq War
The propaganda war, that is. I’m actually somewhat stunned by the results of this recent Gallup poll about the war (taken in honor of the tenth anniversary of its start), but not necessarily in the way you might think. After … Continue reading →
Prepare a face…
…to meet the faces that you meet: Backstage Beauty at The New York City Ballet from Racked.com on Vimeo. Such a contrast between the relatively drab starting point and the very glam finish. And false eyelashes are only a little … Continue reading →
Counting casualties
There’s a new study of the costs of the Iraq War. It got some publicity yesterday on memeorandum, among other places. Counting war casualties is almost always fraught with uncertainty and is one of the areas most ripe for exploitation … Continue reading →
“Scott Walker opens up about White House ambitions”
That’s the headline of this Politico piece. Pul-ease. “Opens up”? As in, “Gives the usual non-committal, cover-all-bases, completely uninformative answer to a question from a reporter fishing for a story”? …[W]hen pressed about his White House ambitions, the Wisconsin Republican … Continue reading →
More child heroes
I love these stories when they have happy endings: “I had him in my arms and still screaming over and over. Then I ran outside. I saw two boys playing across the street, and I yelled, ‘Go ask your parents … Continue reading →
Note…
…that for today I’m taking a little vacay from politics. It should come as a relief to you; it certainly does me. Sometimes I just can’t deal with what seems like the task of pointing out the same stuff over … Continue reading →
Spambot of the day
Spambot with an obscure problem: What’s happening, prominent blog on greasy loss. It suddenly occurs to me, though, that maybe it has something to do with dieting.
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[NOTE: In one of yesterday’s posts I reproduced some photos of people when young alongside the very same people considerably older. Then I offered—without any commentary—one of my favorite poems, “Spring and Fall: To a Young Child” by Gerard Manley … Continue reading →
Mind and matter: academic apostasy
A well-respected academic turns apostate, and reaps the whirlwind. Such a state of affairs should be no surprise to readers of this blog, or readers of Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind. As Paul Rahe writes: Every once … Continue reading →