Of course the conservative response to comparing Ted Cruz and Joe McCarthy is to embrace McCarthy.
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Walter Cronkite previews the office of 2001, in 1967. Marissa Mayer would obviously disapprove. Working from home! Of course, Cronkite couldn't imagine a woman in this office. Via
A few interesting pieces on Asian food and history. 1. This is an interesting discussion of the origins of pad thai, a dish that is fairly minor within Thai cooking.
Is Ron Fournier real? A vicious parody of a self-consciously "centrist" beltway pundit? It's impossible to tell. We can start with the Green Lanternism: But the president won't get off easy. While Obama has reached further rhetorically toward compromise than Republicans have on sequestration and...
Very interesting: Which is where Paraguay’s own “Argo” enters into the story. After Jimmy Carter denied Somoza asylum, he headed to Paraguay, where General Alfredo Stroessner’s right-wing military regime governed..
Shorter Verbatim Charles Murray: "I had never heard of Seth MacFarlane, and was astonished by his talent. And envious of his impermeable self-confidence." Confusing "greasy smarm" and "unjustified self-regard" with.
A very entertaining piece from Glenn Kenny, who notes that David Mamet's dismal career as a 28th-rate wingnut pundit wasn't his first attempt to leverage his (justified) reputation as a playwright into getting compensated for some lazy hackwork in a field he has no talent...
As a historian of the Gilded Age, the sequester is very exciting to me. With each passing day, a big leap back to the halcyon days of the 1890s seems.
Shorter Roger L. Simon: "Everything changed for me on September 11. I used to consider myself a Democrat, but thanks to 9/11, I’m outraged that Ronald Reagan appeared at the.
On Seth McMarflane, I once again quote one of my all-time favorite critical lines, from Robert Christgau: "Irony--an excuse for anything and a reason for nothing." ...so they did just fire all the writers and have McFarlane and an intern copy and tweak some punchlines...
Let Alex Pareene be your guide into the weekly circles of Hell known as the Sunday talk shows. Why anyone watches these things, I do not know. Note: you may.
Sam Mendes is the Don Delillo of contemporary cinema, in that he's as beloved as he's banal and otherwise right-thinking people seem incapable of recognizing him as such. A few.