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Let’s all kill Private Manning
I know you haven’t had a chance to read my cri de cœur regarding the current state of affairs, because I just posted it five minutes ago, but I have to tell you that things have gotten worse. Glenn Greenwald, as usual, fills us in on the latest horror of the Obama Administration, 22 more…
Thoughts on the current discontents
(Editor’s note: The following was intended to be a reasoned, coherent essay on the current state of affairs. Unfortunately, I’m better at ranting.) What’s happening in the Middle East? Damfino. Robert Darnton thinks it’s 1789. Ann Applebaum thinks it’s 1848. If Ann’s right, things ought to be pretty tight all around the Mediterranean around the…
Thoughts on the current discontents
What’s happening in the Middle East? Damfino. Robert Darnton thinks it’s 1789. Ann Applebaum thinks it’s 1848. If Ann’s right, things ought to be pretty tight all around the Mediterranean around the year 2150 or so. Take that, Caesar Augustus!1 But what about the home front? Well, I had hoped to comment on Obama’s State…
Twas a famous victory—well, except for the decapitation. That wasn’t so good.
Over at the Literary Review (definitely English) Adrian Tinniswood (likewise) gives a nice take on John Stubbs’ latest, Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War, 549 pages on the Cavalier Poets, young lads who hung out with an aging Ben Jonson and sought to make a name and a career for themselves by sucking…
Good Newt, Bad Newt? Don’t you mean Fat Newt, Dumb Newt?
Over at the Wash Post’s “FastFIX” (and, baby, it is fast!), fast-talking (of course) Chris Cillizza gives the upside and the downside of the Newtman, something we need to know now that Newt could be our next president (it’s video 80 if you really want to see it). Well, except that, over at Politico, we…
Woodward, covering ass, accuses Rumsfeld of covering ass
Bob Woodward (yes, that Bob Woodward) comes up with a pretty much must read, accusing Donald Rumsfeld of, well, not being a murderer, a liar, or a torturer, but at least a pretty big jerk: “Rumsfeld’s memoir is one big clean-up job, a brazen effort to shift blame to others – including President Bush –…
Kenny Burrell—“All Blues”
Kenny does both the talking and the playing, so I can lay out. Posted by “jazzclarinet2006”.
Alan Vanneman reviews The Social Network (finally).
Yes, months after the fact, my review of The Social Network is finally up at Brightlights in the new issue, just in time for the DVD release. Also on tap, an even less timely review of Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron in Daddy Long Legs, which (at least) is…
More New Yorker trivia
I just can’t stop, can I? At least I don’t. I’ve been marinating, just a bit, in New Yorker history, catching up with Gigi Mahon’s The Last Days of The New Yorker (1988), chronicling the sale of the New Yorker to S.I. Newhouse, and Ben Yagoda’s full-blown history of the mag, Around Town: The New…