PETA weighs in
Well, this is certainly no surprise.
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Blood on the track: the bell tolls for Eight Belles
I’ve never been especially interested in horses, and I almost never watch horse races. One exception was the 1975 match race between the unbeaten filly Ruffian and that year’s Derby winner Foolish Pleasure. As we watched, Ruffian broke down towards … Continue reading →
1972: Democratic rifts, then (and now?)
In a Newsweek interview with George Will and Sean Wilentz that’s mainly about the Left re-evaluating Reagan, there was this food for thought from Will: What happened in ’72 was the aggressive, conscious, tough, skillful disenfranchising of organized labor and … Continue reading →
Latest polls
It appears that Hillary’s argument may be correct. Post-Wright, she now seems more electable than Obama. For all the good it will do her. Will the superdelegates listen? [ADDENDUM: Great Noemie Emery article in the Weekly Standard on how Hillary … Continue reading →
More fun with jello molds: a 50s twofer
In my continuing quest to bring you the best of the jello molds, here’s a 50s twofer to help you while away those leisure hours spent without the cocktail parties and get-togethers of yesteryear: It combines two crazes whose decline … Continue reading →
The Times: still spinning after all these years
I know, I know, I should leave the NY Times alone to its dwindling readership and coffers. I should take the pledge to never type in its sorry URL again. But I’m weak. Every now and then some link catches … Continue reading →
Jello (pudding) treat of the day
And nothing disgusting in this one (although, where’s Trigger? Hmmm.)
Continue reading →It’s the condescension, stupid: the curse of the progressives
This excellent Slate article can be summarized as follows: if you look down on people, it’s unlikely that they’ll start looking up to you.
Continue reading →Shutdown for computer shut-ins
Yesterday was Mayday. But, moving right along, tomorrow is Shutdown Day, the holiday during which we’re advised to take a holiday from our computers, televisions, and other electronic communication gadgetry. Don’t know if I will. I was about to say … Continue reading →
A host of Maydays
Today is Mayday. As a child I was confused by the wildly differing associations the word conjures up. It’s a distress signal, for example, apparently derived from the French for “come to my aid.” That was the first meaning of … Continue reading →
Mary Mitchell’s defense of “warrior” Wright
Here’s one response to the Obama/Wright brouhaha that lets you know why Obama may have been so reluctant to throw Wright under the bus. It seems that Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell (who is an African-American woman, a fact I … Continue reading →
A jello mold photo a day…
…keeps the appetite at bay. In my continuing effort to explore the dubious joys of the dying art of the jello mold, I found this. Not even the gelatin entries in James Lileks’ “Gallery of Regrettable Food” can match the … Continue reading →