Yes, it’s the usual feast of gifs and OMGLOL, but they have stumbled upon a point. The Emperor’s New Groove is so unlike any other Disney animated film, that I often have to remind myself that it’s Disney. In the first place, it’s not a musical. Not really. There’s a quick song at the beginning,… Read More Examining The Emperor’s New Groove: Because Sometimes Buzzfeed is Right…
This is one of those Fridays that doesn’t feel like Friday. It feels like “Where did that week go?” Still, I’ll take it. Karl Rove can’t seem to scrape together the cash like he used to. Poor baby. Since the Scots have elected to stay in the UK, it never hurts to mention all the… Read More Friday Linkfest: They May Take Our Votes, But They’ll Never Take OUR FREEDOM
No horse was going to save him. Read the whole thing, as it’s very interesting, and jibes with what accounts of Bosworth I have read. Of course, it bears pointing out that Richard fought like a mad boar at Bosworth, killing Henry Tudor’s standard bearer and very nearly getting to Henry himself before he was… Read More Richard III was Attacked All At Once, Died Swiftly
It’s like the old days, man. I don’t say this as a prejudiced Irishman. Even though the thistle-arse sheep-shagger Scots swiped Ulster and sent a herd of Presbyterian proddy dogs and porridge wogs to squat on our land and won the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 by using unfair—indeed, unheard of —- organization, discipline,… Read More P.J. O’Rourke Tells Hard Truths About Scots Independence
Really, a collegiate playwright, but that doesn’t make the same stale pop-cultural reference. In any case, one of the ways I spent my days in university instead of exercising or learning how to talk to girls was writing one-act plays. Some of them were bedroom-type farces, some had theological and/or philosophical pretenses. All were silly.… Read More I Was a Teenage Playwright
I know a woman who gave her husband four or five chances to renounce his adulterous ways. He could not, so she kicked him to the curb. My great-grandfather had the same problem. He was fuzzy on the whole “marriage” thing so my great-grandmother sent him packing when my grandfather was six months old. Since… Read More To Be Trapped in a “Loveless Marriage”
It’s not the post that Friday needs, but the post the Friday deserves: Stacy McCain Links Ray Rice and Gone With the Wind, and it’s a Full Read the Whole Thing. Ashley Wilkes becomes more manly than Rhett Butler in his formulation. I know, I know. Just go with it. At the Federalist, some lovely… Read More Friday Linkfest: This, That, and T’other
There was a time when being picked as Secretary of State was tantamount to being flagged as the frontrunner for the next Presidential election. Six Secretaries of State have gone on to become President. However, the last such was James Buchanan in 1856. Since then, we see far more failed Presidential Candidates (William Jennings Bryan,… Read More The Secretary of State Ain’t What it Used to Be…
A provacative reversal of conventional wisdom, discussed by John O’Sullivan in a long-but-worthwhile article at National Review. Kimball raises the question of whether cultural, psychological, artistic, and social movements were, not the consequences of the Great War, but instead among its causes. Without going overboard on this — since the upsetting of Europe’s balance of… Read More Did World War 1 Cause the Collapse of European Values? Or was it the Other Way Around?
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