It pains me to say this, but I'm not sure that I can continue to support Jon Stewart's career any further...The other night on "The Daily Show" he said that Harry Truman was a war criminal for dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
I've tried to square it with a somewhat analogous situation...Spike Lee periodically blasphemes Larry Bird, but he frequently makes good movies ("Inside Man"), so I'll cut him a modest amount of slack...but lumping Truman in with Hermann Goering is a different order of magnitude...
"Since time immemorial, the policy rap on the Democratic Party has been that their solutions amount to stuffing cannons with money and aiming them at amorphous, and occasionally invented, social ills. Since Obama entered the White House in January, the cannonades have been nearly unending. The government has spent money at astonishing rates with little reassurance that the efforts will pay off."
-Mark Hemingway, today's National Review
The basketball equivalent of The Western Front in 1916...sluggish, ugly, grim...
My dad, retired engineer turned swimming instructor, runs lifeguarding classes for 15-17 year old would-be lifeguards.
At the end of training for lifeguardianship, the students are asked to address an envelope to themselves so that their lifeguard certification can be mailed to them.
My dad reports that the vast majority of these kids cannot address an envelope to themselves...Don't know where to write what on the envelope, which side of the envelope, etc.
Being charitable, he ascribes this illiteracy to the advent of the Internet...I, on the other hand, see Revelations fulfilled...
Canned goods and bottled water people...stock up now...
The most shameless act of opportunism this year...The senior senator from the Keystone State has demonstrated that his overriding ideology is Re-Election Uber Alles...
Yes, that was Dubya that Brookhiser was so accurately depicting...
Richard Brookhiser on the 43rd president...not only right on the money, but quite possibly channeling the spirit of F. Scott Fitzgerald...
"He spoke badly out of confidence and indifference, believing that whatever he said was said well enough...when he passed through the crowd shaking hands he moved like a lightweight heading up to the ring for an easy bout, perhaps because it was fixed."
-Richard Brookhiser
