DO NOT DOUBT ME “Whenever there’s good news for America, it’s bad news for them… America’s economy goes up, new jobs, wages go up: bad news for the Democrats. Consequently, when the economy appears to go in the tank … Democrats are happy. Remember Dick Gephardt … when the stock market … bubble hit […]
“Want to see less racism and sexism in classical music? Stop calling Beethoven by his last name.” — Slate Classic liberal idiocy by any other name is still idiocy. “Sean Connery was a fine actor, an even better Bond. A Bond that was suave, dapper, and charismatic, but defined by a toxic masculinity that […]
TEACHABLE MOMENT “Resources are hemorrhaging. Our city is bleeding at this moment. I’m trying to do all I can to stop that bleeding.” — Medaria Arradondo, Minneapolis police chief, after 74 people shot dead and 500 wounded, the worst crime spike in 15 years, begging the city council for money to bring in outside […]
Déjà Moo Does life feel udderly out of control? Don’t have a cow; the we-are-one-with-the-animal-kingdom crowd has a ruminant for you. As wdrb reports, “Cow-Hugging, an Alleged Wellness Fad, Has People Cuddling Farm Animals to Relieve Stress.” Apparently, cuddling a cud-chewer raises your cortisol levels, increasing levels of oxytocin, the feel-good hormone. So the beatific Bessies […]
Special Kind of Stupid “We are in danger of becoming like Russia, where intelligence officials try to control our domestic politics with lies and intimidation… A mainstream media in cahoots with dishonest and manipulative intelligence sources … is a special problem that falls to our generation to put right.” — The Wall Street Journal, […]
“Christmas [1776] 6 p.m. — The Regiments … are marching toward the ferry [to cross the Delaware]. It is fearfully cold and raw and a snowstorm setting in. The wind is northeast and beats in the faces of the men. It will be a terrible night for the soldiers who have no shoes. Some […]
Archive [October 1999] My Conversation With Always fascinating, ever original, Paglia is one of the era’s most incisive analysts of popular culture — if you can keep up with her. Scholar, speaker, columnist (for Salon.com), author of Sexual Personae; Sex, Art, and American Culture; Vamps & Tramps; Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds”, as well as […]
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