I thought I’d poke my head up and remind myself and a few others that I am not, in fact, dead (although signing off with a quotation from the Inferno last week did push the morbidity. It was on my mind). It’s just that time of year, and I’ve just got no time to even… Read More St. Patrick Knows Us Not.
…I found myself overladen with Things to Do. You know the story. Blogging will be light for the forseeable. Right now, enjoy some Dante: I found myself in dark woods, the right road lost. To tell about those woods is hard – so tangled and so rough And savage that thinking of it now, I… Read More Mid-Way on Our Life’s Journey…
It’s an interesting question, but the short answer is: No. Because Detroit doesn’t want to be rescued. Which is to say, Detroit’s political class doesn’t want anything to change. The people might hope for an economic dictator to cull the mess in city hall, but everyone else has a vested or an ideological interest in… Read More Should Mitt Romney Rescue Detroit?
From Ace: How odd. Deuced odd, if I may say so myself. How may such mysteries be explained. It’s above Brazile’s pay grade, that’s for sure…
The Wall Street Journal finds the essence of progressive thought very conveniently spelled out. The anonymous reporter, however, goes far beyond bias, and even beyond bad faith–that is, beyond abusing his credibility as an “objective” reporter to further his cause. To judge by his emails to the reader, he has achieved a perfect Orwellian inversion.… Read More “My Bias is Objective, Because I’m Right”
Or, you know, not… Salon has decided that there’s nothing more important going on than taking apart the yearly market display of that Factory of Fabulous on the West Coast. First, the Onion tweeted something about a nine-year-old girl that, even if you get the joke, is absolutely dreadful. Then, Willa Paskin had that epiphany… Read More Let’s All Get Mad About the Oscars!
Big Government has a series on the history of Third Parties and the possibilities of a Third Party run in 2016. They’re all worth the read, but there’s no page for all of them: I had to do an internal search to find them from the beginning (though of course all of them are linked… Read More Third Parties – A Breitbart Retrospective
L.Palmer speculates about a hypothesis that the Disney Star Wars films are going to take a page from the Avengers franchise: There are, after all rumors of Boba Fett and Han Solo standalone films. I don’t disagree with these considerations. But I think the sequel trilogy — Episodes VII-IX, will not be those. The premise of… Read More The Star Wars Avengers
He can’t be racist! He gives Money to black people! “I find it ironic that my foundation’s last grant was $50,000 to the Arthur Ashe Learning Center,” Baldwin tweeted. Which is to say, his foundation gave money to a charity named after a black person! So there! TMZ says they can’t hear the racial slur… Read More Alec Baldwin Denies Everything, NYPD Investigates
I suppose we should be grateful that she’s finally not talking about Madonna. Diana and Rihanna began as sensitive, wounded, but appealingly bubbly and good-natured provincial girls who slowly discovered their own photogenic virtuosity and began to conceptualize themselves as living sculpture for the lens. Both developed a false intimacy with photographers and the public… Read More Rhianna is Diana, or Camille Paglia Grasps for Relevance
