As usual, Michael Totten is well worth reading. Here’s his take on the Georgian situation.
The PUMA revolt
A fairly large percentage of Hillary Clinton’s supporters are mighty angry at the Obama campaign. To see what I mean, just go to a blog such as Talk Left and read the comments there, especially the ones written after the Biden pick. Despite the bloggers’ (and Hillary’s) calls for unity, these ladies are hopping mad. Continue reading →
“This little trick”—hovering in the air
I’m currently reading I, Maya Plisetskaya, the autobiography of the wonderful Russian dancer about whom I wrote this tribute. She was known for vivacity, smoldering sensuality, and her powerful yet graceful jump, the latter of which she describes as follows:
I quickly grasped the “jumping” mazurka in “Chopiniana” in two rehearsals with the rehearsal coach…and I danced it with thundering success. Nature had not passed me over when it came to jumps, and I flew across the stage in three jetés…I deliberately tried to hover in the air at the top of each leap, and the audience responded enthusiastically. Each leap was accompanied by a crescendo of applause. I myself couldn’t have imagined that the audience would take such a liking to this little trick.
Is this possible? Continue reading →
Not all Obama supporters are happy with the way the rollout went
When the MSM spilled the beans on Obama’s VP pick last night, I was thinking that, not only will the PUMAs absolutely hate this, but many young and “progressive” Obama supporters will as well. I’m not just talking about the choice of Biden, but the way the whole text-message thing played out. Continue reading →
Obama’s pick: why, it’s the Democratic McCain!
My title is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, of course. But it did occur to me, watching clips of Joe Biden late last night, that Obama’s new running mate is the closest thing to John McCain that Obama could have found in the Democratic Party. Continue reading →
“Waiting for Barack”
You’ve got to hand it to him—Obama certainly knows how to milk the drama of the VP wait.
And speaking of drama, I think you’ll agree that Beckett was remarkably prescient. Note especially the reference to Bush.
ESTRAGON:
(despairingly). Ah! (Pause.) You’re sure it was here?
VLADIMIR:
What? Continue reading →
Obama and the tax code: from each according to his ability, to each according to “fairness”
Some of Obama’s slightly-less-publicized statements are the ones that concern me most.
Case in point: in this WSJ column by William McGurn, the author points out that for Obama, taxes are not just about collecting revenue. What are they for? Fairness.
Obama was being quizzed on his proposal to raise the capital gains tax. Continue reading →
Candidates who live in ill-gotten houses…
…shouldn’t throw stones.
But sometimes they do, and this is what they get in response:
The Obama campaign must think they had a winner, casting McCain’s remark that he didn’t know how many houses he owns as evidence he doesn’t understand working Americans. Continue reading →
Presidential snacks: Obama’s shopping spree
Wow. I didn’t know you could buy babies at the Farmer’s Market (see paragraph two).
Obama’s purchase of biscuits, zucchini bread, pound cake, bread, tomatoes and peaches makes him a health-food nut compared to earlier Presidents.
We all are familiar with chow hound Bill Clinton. But do you recall the partician Bush Senior’s difficult-to-believe (and to stomach) predilection for pork rinds? Reagan liked jelly beans, and Nixon’s comfort food was cottage cheese mixed with ketchup. Yuk.
Whatever happened to really silly pop songs?
They were called “novelty songs,” although I didn’t know it at the time. They occupied a special niche that doesn’t seem to exist anymore in this far less innocent age: a nonsensical bubble-gum type of music/lyrics, meant mostly to amuse in the lightest of ways. They were silly even back when they first came out, in the 50s and early 60s of my youth.
Here are the ones I remember best (and believe me, they’re memorable—good for an earworm or two, or perhaps three or four): Continue reading →
Meet Obama’s female doppleganger, Baldilocks
Blogger Baldilocks has a fascinating story on her own. But it’s even more fascinating these days because it runs roughly parallel for a while to that of none other than Senator Obama, although it then veers off rather dramatically from his.
Please take a look at this LA Times interview with Baldilocks, aka Juliette Ochieng. Here’s an excerpt to whet your appetite: Continue reading →
Beach volleyball: unfair, I say!
I hereby object to the obvious pulchritudinous inequities of the Olympian sport of beach volleyball.
To wit: why is it that the women’s torsos are relatively unclad while the men’s are coyly covered in tank tops? Continue reading →