» Happy Uniform Holiday Number 3!
Delightful article on the legislation that moved most of the national holidays to Monday. As one who likes irregularities and dislikes the travel glut of 3-day weekends, I’d like to see a mid-week Memorial Day.
10/15/2009
08/29/2009
“ It’s really sary that a retin like Glenn Bek is one of the gatekeepers of what used to be alled ‘onservatism’ … Boy, it sure is good to know that a lever and reative lown like him is one of the prinipal framers of our national disourse on what it means to be really truly an Amerian itizen. I so believe he’s not just some hattering ukoo. For as we know, being onservative overs a multitude of sins and automatially makes you a ompetent and apable thinker and not a mere rabble-rousing lunati. „
— If it’s tough to read, Beck offers the decoding tool here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0OUXkZO8vE
05/27/2009
“ Putting the emphasis on the final syllable of Sotomayor is unnatural in English (which is why the president stopped doing it after the first time at his press conference), … and insisting on an unnatural pronunciation is something we shouldn’t be giving in to. „
Mark Krikorian at the Corner. Every time I think those people have reached absolute zero, the total negation of mind, it turns out that there are still more negative numbers for them to explore and colonize. And I remember the day when National Review was the intellectual epicenter of conservatism. (via ayjay)
04/01/2009
» The Quiet Coup
But inevitably, emerging-market oligarchs get carried away; they waste money and build massive business empires on a mountain of debt. Local banks, sometimes pressured by the government, become too willing to extend credit to the elite and to those who depend on them. Overborrowing always ends badly, whether for an individual, a company, or a country. Sooner or later, credit conditions become tighter and no one will lend you money on anything close to affordable terms.
It’s about the US financial crisis.
02/26/2009
» Poulos - What's the Prob, Bob?
There is only one Barack Obama, and imitating him will do great harm to American politics because it will lodge all the deeper our stupid conviction that ‘authentic presence’ of various kinds can be rubbed off, or sprayed on. Such a creepy covetousness of power-emanating totem-people it spawns. Obama’s charisma is contagious: what an intoxicating promise! But reminding ourselves that we can never truly separate a person from their ‘-ness’ should actually bring Obama back down to Earth, reminding us that Obama is only human. Alas, in the charisma game, we remain dangerously uneducated about what ‘authentic presence’ really means, paying great lip service to ‘authenticity’ while fawning over mere ‘presence’, stage presence. Authenticity is a fax of a fax, a ghost of a ghost. You can’t be merely authentic. You have to be an authentic something. “Yeah,” answers our cheap, corrupted vision of charisma. “Authentically present!”
