The great Ben Gazzara has passed. He had so many excellent roles over the years. Of course, for my generation, one particular role as a money-lending pornographer stands out.
Month: February 2012
A lot of interesting stories today, too many to comment upon: 1. Neil Genzlinger on the absurd proliferation of strip club scenes on television. As he points out, the problem.
Obviously, more of this should be coming from Washington rather than Albany, but I'll take it for now.
Dan Foster, in the midst of taking an incoherent ride on the waambulance, is proud of a co-worker's piece of anti-wisdom: In the NROHQ kitchen just now, Charlie Cooke wondered aloud, and here I paraphrase: “Does anyone on the Left even ask the basic question...
In case Komen hadn't satisfied its desire to paint itself as a right-wing organization with its defunding of Planned Parenthood, it wanted to make it very clear to all of.
Heather Hurlburt and I talk Responsibility to Protect, among other things: Let me also encourage fans of Foreign Entanglements, the number of which I am utterly convinced pushes the boundaries.
I will be upset about this...if the Democrats fall one seat short of taking the House. Otherwise, good riddance. Was Shuler worse as a legislator or quarterback? Tough call...
Shorter Nancy Brinker: "We will not bow down. We will continue to defend our stupid, anti-gender equity decisions with evasive, almost comically disingenuous gibberish." By the way, since this new.
I know I've been expressing some optimism about November in recent posts. But forget about it. A total game-changer means we should all give up on reelecting Barack Obama. Apparently.
For an object lesson about why it infuriates me when the Dana Milbanks of the world assume that the forced pregnancy lobby has some sort of monopoly on assessing morality, see here. Forcing your mentally disabled daughter to bear her rapist's child without her...
Kilgore: Yesterday, with Gov. Mitch Daniels’ signature, Indiana became the 23d state, and the very first (other than Indiana itself during a brief period ending in 1965) in the industrial.
In his book Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, the sociologist Erving Goffman makes a distinction between virtual social identity and actual social identity. A person’s virtual social.