A man wrote this: “Over the past week, my colleague in Austin and Andrew Sullivan have been discussing whether there is a Rick-Perry-sized hole in the race. With respect to Mr Sullivan I side with E.G.; while Mr Perry might choose to enter the race and might do quite well, there is no sizable bloc…
What Slate is saying about me
I’ve written before about Slate’s habit of recommending stories for me. Well, they’re at it again. According to their spies, this is what I wish I were reading: Is Bar Refaeli really the hottest swimsuit model in the world? Ginnifer Goodwin stunned by Weight Watchers backlash Ten worst things you can put in your cover…
The use and self-abuse of history, William Kristol edition
Over at the Weekly Standard, William Kristol is musing about history, or at least pretending to. After muttering and mumbling about Ames and such, Billy posts his nut graph (three of them, actually, but they’re short) at the very end of his column: Should Republicans yield to history, and resign themselves to a Romney-Perry choice?…
The Good Ship Varyag, still making waves
In my recent fulmination regarding Time Magazine’s trumpeting of the non-existent danger posed to America by the launch of China’s first aircraft carrier, the reconstituted hulk formerly known as the Varyag, I assumed that only Time would be crass enough to try to make geo-political hay out of the launch of a naval museum piece….
Moods of Thelonious—“Ask Me Now”
Eric Montigny, piano; Ronald Alphonse, sax; Daniele Israel, trombone; Laurent Bernarnd, bass; Stéphane Lambotte, percussion; Dimitri Granger, percussion; David Patrois, vibraphone & marimba. Posted by “tostud”
Time Magazine, still shitty after all these years
Back in the day—that long ago day known as “the Fifties”—all good liberals regarded Time Magazine with loathing and contempt. Henry Luce, Time’s founder and publisher, was the Rupert Murdoch of his day. Millions of people across the country felt they knew what was happening around the world thanks to Time, much to the liberals’…
Hard-headed CEOs demand that Obama show leadership and solve their problems for them
Just when you feel totally exasperated by President Obama’s mealy-mouthed, don’t hit me reasonable man meme, along come a passel of two-fisted, tough-talking CEOs to make the President look good. Over at the Daily Beast, Lloyd Grove and McKay Coppins corral a bunch of business big-wigs to get the low-down on the mess in Washington,…
And we know that how?
According to Politico, “Taliban helicopter shooter killed by United States.” How do we know that? Because Marine Gen. John Allen said so, that’s why. And how does he know that? Don’t ask. Politico didn’t.
George Will: Eating words if not mincing them
Over at the American Conservative, which is not entirely All Pat Buchanan, All the Time—and Pat, as the only living American Falangist, deserves more respect than he gets—Daniel Larison has a chuckle over George Will’s discomfiture over the “circus” known as the Ames straw poll. Last March, George announced, in the sort of neo-Burkean harumph…