Flying Down to Rio
In honor of the Olympics, Fred and Ginger (not cheek-to-cheek, but forehead-to-forehead) from 1933’s “Flying Down To Rio:” [ADDENDUM: And my good friend Dr. Sanity is a lyrical genius.]
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Let’s have a Lynn Seymour interlude
If you want to take a break and watch a glorious dancer you’ve probably never heard of, take a look at a 1979 clip of Lynn Seymour performing the bedroom scene from Macmillan’s “Romeo and Juliet” with David Wall’s Romeo, … Continue reading →
Obama’s French lesson
One of Krauthammer’s best.
Continue reading →Oops! Polanski’s appeal weakens still further
It turns out that one of the pillars of the Polanski defense (and the Polanski defenders’ arguments) has crumbled. In an HBO documentary made last year about the 1977 Polanski rape case, the shocking assertion was made by a former … Continue reading →
Blame it on Rio
It’s official: Rio in 2016 for the Olympic Games. When I first heard the news that President Obama was flying to Copenhagen to plead that Chicago be tapped as the venue for the 2016 Summer Games, I was flabbergasted. Despite … Continue reading →
Polanski as Byronic hero
Studying the Polanski brouhaha, and most especially reading the columns and comments of his defenders and champions, puts me in mind of certain Romantic heroes and artists of old. I refer to the poet whose exploits—sexual and otherwise—were famous in … Continue reading →
Paul Volcker chimes in
I was wondering yesterday what might be going on behind the scenes with Obama economic experts such as Larry Summers and Paul Volcker. Are they fully on board the Obama express? Well, it seems Volcker has surfaced recently with some … Continue reading →
We don’t need no steenking photo IDs for health care benefits
Guess what? Surprise, surprise: applicants won’t have to show a picture ID to register for health care benefits. Of course, it’s the Democrats in the Senate who struck down this particular provision, not Obama, but it fits in with the … Continue reading →
Reagan on oration
Here’s one of the many differences between Obama and Reagan, both considered effective orators. In Reagans’ farewell speech he said: And in all of that time I won a nickname, “The Great Communicator.” But I never thought it was my … Continue reading →
A (female?) chicken in every pot
[WARNING: the following post may put you a bit off your feed.] On this thread I noticed a discussion in the comments section about chicken. Inquiring minds wanted to know whether we eat female birds only, or males and females … Continue reading →
Ignoring the financial experts: where have you gone, Larry Summers?
With all the news swirling around lately it seems that Obama’s approach to the financial crisis, a topic that was the main focus of the early months of his presidency, has gone on the back burner. But as his more … Continue reading →
Neocons: the comeback kids?
Bret Stephens thinks so, anyway. And if you look through the comments section to his article, you’ll notice how few of the commenters seem to have a clue what neocons actually stand for. No surprise there. [ADDENDUM: Dr. Sanity has … Continue reading →