The death of Susan Sontag has wrought predictable outcomes among the commentariat, yet another to add to the litany of outcomes that exhibit the tendency to lionize or demonize one’s intellectual compatriots, or opposites, respectively. Can the merits of her entire artistic career be boiled down to one quote about her lofty, intellectaually elite observation… Continue reading this entry
The day’s darkest brought upon us a Viqueen named Egeland—working for the United Nations, what else—who slammed the United States among other rich countries as “stingy,” because, well, 99.8% of the income of these countries, quite remarkably, stays within these countries instead of being redistributed as foreign aid. Frontpage magazine has a powerful takedown of… Continue reading this entry
Podz writing about politics. Because he’s British and he believes in a thing called “social justice,” but not the kind being sold in Commie counties like Montgomery County, MD. He wants the people who praise redistribution to go first, and he doesn’t like hypocrisy especially from the, er, figurehead of the nation. Beyond his political… Continue reading this entry
The violence that killed fifteen bodyguards of the top Shia candidate, Abdelaziz Hakim, has triggered two different reactions, whose trends are starting to be predictable, and unsurprising if not ironic. The Sunnis decide to back out of the election (reg’n required, sorry) while Hakim’s supporters throw a rally demanding that the elections push through on… Continue reading this entry
The message at the apex of the sculpture garden at the Korean War Memorial in Washington, D.C. It reads: “Our nation honors her sons and daughters who answered the call to defend a country they never knew and a people they never met.” And honor them we do.
I basically have to parrot Glenn Reynolds’conclusion in his TCS Column about the aftermath of the Asian tsunami: Over the longer run, of course, the best protection against catastrophes, whether foreseen or unforeseen, is a society that is rich enough, and diverse enough, to be well-prepared for all sorts of contingencies. Which means that economic… Continue reading this entry
I’m making a few year-end lists, as is the meme as the year closes, according to some requests by Zombyboy. Today, we have the political gaffes of 2004. “Screw them.” — Markos Moulitsas-Zuniga. No two words have expressed such utter lack of sympathy over the deaths of Americans in Iraq. More info on the subject… Continue reading this entry
Listening to Dusty Springfield’s You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me brings about mental images of Hugo Weaving in drag. Whodathunkit? Why oh why this association exists, I do not know.
I’m playing along with Zombyboy’s game, but I am not adhering to the rules of having to list only the best, I will list what I want to talk about, the ones that have made an impact either positively or otherwise. Today we talk about Films of 2004. Ones I have not seen (either in… Continue reading this entry
I suppose it is more cost-effective to just keep the masses entertained down in DC than to educate them and actually let them have the means to move out to a city that already has its own baseball team.