Christopher Orlet
Well, Hollywood has succeeded in portraying the greatest monster of all time as a victim (and the honorable hero as a macho bastard.) How long before modern-day monsters like Stalin and Pol Pot get a similar treatment?
Wasn’t sure if I wanted to weigh in on this, since the little girl who hanged herself is my cousin’s granddaughter, but now political columnists and 60 Minutes are taking this up, and they seem to have most of the…
If, for some reason, you are surfing the Net instead of basting a turkey or mashing potatoes, I recommend Joseph Epstein’s piece on WSJ Online.
Isn’t calling your Air America radio show The Young Turks (who were responsible for the Armenian Genocide) sort of like calling your radio show The Hitler Youth?
This week marks both “No Music Day” and “Buy Nothing Day” and mostly everywhere they will be celebrated with lots of good old music and shopping. “Buy Nothing Day,” started by Vancouver artist and activist Ted Dave, has been around…
The nation’s worst school massacre occurred in the spring of 1927, in the farm community of Bath, Michigan. Forty-five people, mostly second grade students, were killed that day, and 58 were injured. The perpetrator, Andrew P. Kehoe, 55, was a…
The Pine Lawn City Council on Monday passed a law against saggy pants. Offenders can face fines of up to $100. Not quite the Nuremburg laws, but it does seem these folks have gone mad with power. And what about…
Lawrence, you are so right. From the London Times: Jules Feiffer summed up long ago the position of Mailer’s star in the firmament. “Remember in the 1950s and early 1960s, novelists were thought of as very important people,” he said….
The Death of the Grown-up: How America’s Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization By Diana West (St. Martin’s Press, 272 pages, $23.95) Relaxing on my deck, I can hear them approaching from a mile away, their constipated machines roaring,…
Europeans might have learned a valuable lesson after Western Civilization was nearly wrecked on the shoals of national socialism. Namely, nations unwilling to defend liberal democracy against those who would destroy it will not long have a democracy to defend….
