Uncle Drew…
…shows em how it’s done:
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Movie musicals and rub a dub dubbing, and Audrey Hepburn
In yesterday’s thread about the undeserving poor, commenter IGotBupkis took aim at the musical “My Fair Lady” versus the movie version of the play “Pygmalion.” His comment was rather long (go here to read the whole thing), but I’ll excerpt … Continue reading →
The glorious Egyptian revolution…
…seems to be going the way of most glorious revolutions—not well (although I suppose it depends who’s doing the judging). It’s fifty-fifty between the Muslim Brotherhood and a Mubarak surrogate in the first round of voting: In what many described … Continue reading →
The undeserving poor
An exchange in the comments section of this post made me think of one of my favorite scenes from “My Fair Lady.” It’s a discourse on the welfare system by Eliza’s ne-er-do-well father, Alfred Doolittle: Here it is: And here’s … Continue reading →
Divide and conquer?
This Politico piece about how Obama’s campaign has been flatfooted and awkward contains the following rather amusing observation: Some key Democrats say they have been dismayed watching Obama become a divider not a uniter, trying to incite anger among women, … Continue reading →
Obama the stoner
So all right already—Obama was a stoner in high school. Didn’t we already know that? And although the photos are rather interesting in a retro-70s way, do we really care? Not all that much, although it certainly tells us some … Continue reading →
Suzanne Farrell
Perhaps you’ve never seen Suzanne Farrell dance. Perhaps you’ve never even heard of her. She’s sixty-six now and retired from performing for over twenty years. But in her heyday she was unique, and choreographer George Balanchine was besotted with her. … Continue reading →
Is Obama joking?
I wonder what Obama meant by this—other than just a new way to attack Romney: There was a woman in Iowa who shared her story of financial struggles, and he gave her an answer right out of an economic textbook. … Continue reading →
RIP Paul Fussell
Author Paul Fussell has died at 88. I read only two things he wrote, but both of them were extraordinary. The first was his magnum opus, the one that made him famous (at least in some circles), The Great War … Continue reading →
Whatever you may think of Bristol Palin…
…her son Tripp is one seriously adorable child:
Continue reading →Obama’s attack on Romney’s Bain record isn’t going so well
During the Republican primaries, Romney was attacked mightily for his tenure at Bain. Gingrich was the main—although hardly the only—source of the criticism. His supporters said that, far from harming Romney if Mitt ended up being the nominee, this would … Continue reading →
The changing eyewitness testimony
Several eyewitnesses in the Zimmerman-Martin case have changed their original accounts, mostly to reflect more poorly on Zimmerman. This is disturbing, but not at all unusual. Eyewitness testimony, which many people give extreme weight to, is notoriously unreliable. And that’s … Continue reading →