This is how it starts: Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. I have often felt uneasy about you. I thought the Yankees… Read More Freed Slave in 1865 Writes to Old Master With Great Affection, Barely Concealed Laughter
That’s the basic takeaway from this old interview that Andrew Earles posted to his blog. Way too many people take pop music way too seriously. It doesn’t deserve it. The fans of the critics’ faves don’t think for themselves–if they did, what comes out of their mouths might be interesting, what lives in their book… Read More Music is Funny.
Slowly. The current population will shrink from the current level of 128 million to 86.74 million, as the graying nation’s aging accelerates and the birthrate continues to stay low. Stay low? It’s going to get lower: The fertility rate, which is currently at 1.39 per woman, will continue to fall, says the institute. The rate… Read More Japan is Dying.
I don’t share the panic over the continuing Story of a Primary Gone to the Dogs. In 2008, we spent the entire winter and spring watching Hillary and Obama slug it out. Limbaugh encouraged conservatives to register as Democrats to keep it interesting. Everyone got tired of the drama, and assumed that the winner would be… Read More Meanwhile, in the GOP Primary, the Madness Continues
Just remember, your political opponents are not real people, merely objects for you to project your righteous fury upon. And by righteous fury, I mean condoms. You know, the weapon of the powerful.
And the angel opened up the fourth seal, etc… Speaking as a Catholic, I wish the Church would be more open on the contraception question. But speaking as an American liberal who believes that religious pluralism imposes certain obligations on government, I think the Church’s leaders had a right to ask for broader relief from… Read More I Agree With E.J. Dionne
And apparently, downloadable for free. I shouldn’t hold it against Hear, Hear! that he can’t identify “That song the Pixies play at the end of Fight Club” should I? UPDATE: Hear Hear’s! page has a link to the song “Where is My Mind.” I failed to note the Irony, so the Ignorant Girl image has… Read More The 90’s are Back, Baby
Can’t say I blame him. It deserves pointing out that Santorum is the only one whose hands are in any way clean on this issue. Gingrich’s are not clean, and all great Neptune’s oceans will not wash Romney’s. Look, I like Newt Gingrich. Always have. He’s got fire in the belly, and he’s smart. But… Read More Rick Santorum is Mad
The former Senator from Viagra claimed that nominating the Newtzilla would result in a “sweeping victory” for President Obama. There are two reasonable responses to this information. Bob Dole is still alive? What the *$^% does Bob Dole know about sweeping victories? Maybe the guy who ran a colorless, gutless campaign against the Man from… Read More Bob Dole Stumps for Romney, Denounces Gingrich
Saw this over at Ace’s, and will probably have to read it again soon. I have always found post-modernism transcendentally irritating, because it always seemed the desparate decadent cry of the self-hating honky. It was a fundamentally nihilistic riff of of ideas first played with by the Sophists, as I came to notice when I… Read More The Death of Postmodernism?
