The headline reads: “President Obama Unaware of Spying”: President Barack Obama didn’t know about the NSA spying on foreign leaders for years, and he put an end to it when the administration found out about the program, according to a … Continue reading →
…and thank you yet again. To everyone who donated in my latest pledge drive (and in the past, and in the future), I deeply appreciate what you’ve done to help keep me blogging (and eating, and putting gas in my … Continue reading →
…skewers the website launch:
Continue reading →[NOTE: Here’s a post I first wrote in 2005. It’s a favorite of mine.] I think it may be a lost pedagogical device, but when I was in grade school, we were forced by our teachers (mostly elderly women, as … Continue reading →
When I first saw the headline I thought for sure that this was a joke. Had to be, with a title like “The Time Hoard: Missing episodes of Doctor Who from 1960s found gathering dust in a cupboard in Nigeria.” … Continue reading →
Ah, the Paris designer shows during Fashion Week! The elegance, the money, the glamour, the je ne sais quoi. Or perhaps not: Then there’s always Wizard of Oz retro: And modesty: Enough, enough. For a palate cleanser, let’s go back … Continue reading →
Today we have the sad news that best-selling blockbuster author Tom Clancy has died of undisclosed causes at the age of 66. I must admit I never read any of his books; it’s just not my style of reading matter. … Continue reading →
I’ve got a new post up at PJ’s Lifestyle section. The topic: driving the Model T versus driving the cars of today. Not about politics at all. Okay, maybe just a little.
Continue reading →…from a very savvy and succinctly-spoken seven-year-old. I agree with almost everything the kid says. And I’ve never heard of most of the people pictured.
Continue reading →Phyllis Chesler’s new book, An American Bride in Kabul, is described and recommended by John Hinderaker at Powerline. Sounds interesting. Nothing like personal experience to drive a point home.
Continue reading →Horatio: O day and night, but this is wondrous strange! Hamlet: And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Case in point, the rainbow … Continue reading →
British poet Philip Larkin (1922-1985) was a complicated man, like many poets. But unlike most of them these days, he was politically of the right, at least in some respects. Larkin wrote in forms, which is inherently conservative. But his … Continue reading →