RIP Doris Day
Doris Day died yesterday at the age of 97. Day was all sunshine, and her singing voice was velvet. She was mocked by some for being so all-fired wholesome, but she was a great entertainer in several genres and made … Continue reading →
Category Archives: People of interest
This is what passes for an eminent philosopher these days: Julian Savulescu [Part II]
[NOTE: Part I can be found here.] Later on in his interview, the philosopher and bioethicist Julian Savulescu has much to say about what humans can do on the biological level to help make the world better, in the general … Continue reading →
This is what passes for an eminent philosopher these days: Julian Savulescu [Part I]
[NOTE: Part II here.] As soon as I saw the headline for this article, I thought it might be about Peter Singer. I’ve written at great length about Singer before (see this, this, and this), and the title of the … Continue reading →
Have chicken, will travel
Meet Monique, the chicken that went to sea: I said to myself, ‘If she annoys me, I can always eat her.’ It feels weird to say that now! We formed a real bond. What the well-dressed chicken will wear in … Continue reading →
Dershowitz: I get it right because I’m objective
Indeed he does and indeed he is. One would think objectivity would be a requirement for success as a legal analyst, but anyone who thinks that would be very wrong because “success” isn’t defined as getting it right and certainly … Continue reading →
Gwen Verdon: the greatest show dancer of them all
There’s a new TV series out entitled “Fosse/Verdon,” that follows the lives and times of Broadway choreographer/director/dancer Bob Fosse and Broadway dancer (and choreographic collaborator) Gwen Verdon, who were husband and wife and had a tumultuous relationship. It’s not as … Continue reading →
Let’s hear it for Norman Podhoretz, the original neocon
Norman Podhoretz is eighty-nine years old and still going strong, not to mention sharp as a tack. Case in point, this interview. Unfortunately, the Podoretz interview itself is behind an impregnable paywall, so that link is to a post at … Continue reading →
Ilhan Omar and the victimhood competition
Here’s Sebastian Gorka on Ilhan Omar and some other freshman Democrats in the House: Behold the face of the Democratic Party: minority, young, and racist. This is the fruit of identity politics. Be it Omar, who is on the cover … Continue reading →
Turkey’s Erdogan and the democracy train
I guess Turkey’s Erdogan and his party didn’t do enough to fix the elections in Turkey this time, and must have underestimated the strength of his opponents, because the election didn’t go as he’d hoped. The NY Times calls it … Continue reading →
No, Biden’s not like Franken
So now it’s been decreed by someone or other on the left that it’s time for the person who’s already been known for years on the right as “Creepy Uncle Joe” Biden to be accused of inappropriate touching: Amy Lappos, … Continue reading →
Rahm Emanuel blames Trump for the Smollett case, which prompts Al Sharpton to blame Trump for the Tawana Brawley case
When the Smollett case was settled with hardly a wrist-slap, Rahm Emanuel was spitting mad. But after a couple of days he thought better of his tirade and reverted to what Democrats so love to do and blamed Trump, the … Continue reading →
Yeats was a goner for Gonne
I’ve written about the great poet Yeats before, and in this post I dealt at length with his attitude towards aging and sexuality. In it, I mentioned that he had a lifelong love for and fascination—you might say “obsession”—with the … Continue reading →