A day late and a dollar short
This is troubling news.
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Althouse and Moore; Jews and Polanski and bankers
I noticed an interesting and controversial discussion at Ann Althouse’s blog in response to a post involving the abominable Michael Moore’s latest movie, the anti-capitalism screed about which Ann writes: in attacking the banking system, Moore presented quite a parade … Continue reading →
Conor Cruise O’Brien: prescient on terrorism
I came across the name of Conor Cruise O’Brien the other day, and as Google led to Google, I found a strangely prescient article of his from the Atlantic of 1986 on the subject of terrorism . Take a look. … Continue reading →
Prize jello
It’s high time for another jello interlude, is it not? A reader’s tip led me to this fabulous site. There are so many wonders there it behooves you to go visit. I’ll just reproduce a tempting few here. Jello Saran … Continue reading →
The willingness to believe that two plus two makes five
I read Orwell’s masterful dystopic political vision 1984 when I was about twelve years old, old enough to get what it was aiming at but young enough to be especially frightened by some of its most memorable images, which have … Continue reading →
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.]
Continue reading →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 →