The new hit movie.
The standard of approval in moviedom seems to have become whether you should actually go to a theater to see the picture, as opposed to waiting for it to show up on DVD or pay-per-view.
‘Inception’ is apparently in the “go to the theater” category.
It’s out there, picking up some buzz.
I think it’s essential reading if you want to understand the war we are in, here, now.
Now there’s a social hygienist who is a public health problem.
Just caught part of the clip of him appearing yesterday on Fox News Sunday. He accuses Fox News of racism for showing the out of context clip of Shirley Sherrod’s speech to an NAACP gathering. Chris Wallace, the host, has to regretfully inform Dean that the Obama White House had Sherrod fired before her name had ever been mentioned on Fox News.
Dean’s next attempt? He says that the White House was afraid that Glenn Beck would get hold of the tape.
Well, I’ll say this, the Obamists have good reason to be afraid of Beck. He sees right the hell through them, and he has the guts to quote them explaining themselves. That’s generally taboo in the mainstream media, to actually show these people explaining themselves. And you know there’s trouble in Obamaland when they send out a borderline psychotic like Dean to man the barricades. If that’s the best they could do it might mean that no one else was willing to do it.
Loves the smoking and drinking.
Back then, well, the world was no less complicated, but people were far less afraid of it.
Americans were confident and believed they could get the job done, the job that was in front of them. It wasn’t always true and it didn’t always work, but people were not constantly afraid of eating the wrong food or saying the wrong thing or running into the twerps who had something to say about it.
And there weren’t any Head Nurse mayors running around a much more sophisticated Manhattan telling people what he thought they should have for dinner. If anything, I’d bet that Robert Wagner, New York’s mayor back then, had a bottle of whisky in his desk drawer in emulation of then former President Harry Truman.
That spares me the effort this morning of writing a clever descriptive paragraph about the catastrophe.
Black Jack docks his man-o’-war out of state, with the Newport swells.
Aye, matey, Black Jack be the Skull and Bones come alive, he be. Those be glowing coals that be his eyes.
And the Republicans will be right there for them.
It’s the perfect hole card, to be played only in case of looming political disaster. Rally the nation.
Bombs away!
Field Marshal Rodham vs. Pyongyang.
What, she has no willing suspension of disbelief for a comrade?
Soja has what looks to be one of the odder members of the fraternity in focus:
[T]he characters are as ultimately unforgettable as they are indubitably unique. The names alone are a clue. Titus Groan, 77th Earl of Gormenghast. Lord Sepulchrave, his dad. The Countess Groan, with birds living in her hair. Fuchsia. Dr. Prunesquallor. Sourdust. Barquentine. Rottcodd. Steerpike. And many others. Later, there’s Muzzlehatch and Juno.
I’ll have a shot of Sourdust, with a Barquentine chaser.
There is no rational explanation for Ezra Klein being a featured blogger at one of the three top newspapers in the U.S.
Soja had that nailed way back. Today he is vindicated. Hit the link for the delicious line-up of internal links:
It’s nice to see Ezra Klein getting his ass kicked all over the Internets the last several days, but it’s really nice to see the commenters on his own blog stepping up to boot him relentlessly up one side and down the other, too.
Some reviews of my No. 1 summer reading recommendation, the counterterrorism thriller, Corpse in Armor:
“To cut to the chase, this book is fantastic!” — Linda Morgan at Amazon.com
“Fast paced, unrelenting, corpse filled. The mayhem starts early and doesn’t stop, and the situation grows more dire at every dispatch” — Mike Soja at Kayak 2 U
“And, if readers feel that right and wrong are veiled by a mist, McPhillips’ characters will clear away the mist as rapidly as an M16 on full auto clears a magazine” — John Venlet at Improved Clinch
“This book advertises itself as ‘A Thriller’ and it delivers! What starts out as a seemingly simple detective story unfolds into a well-crafted tale of murder, intrigue and terrorism” — Kevin Prigge at Amazon.com
“This book does its job, and more. I would read it if I were you, but I’m me, so I already have, and I’m glad I did” — Billy Beck at Two–Four
“McPhillips keeps the action brisk, the banter droll, and occasionally made me laugh out loud. Good stuff!” Celeste at Amazon.com
“After finishing my work for the day, I started reading Corpse in Armor. And I couldn’t put it down” — Newbius at The Newbius Papers
“You find yourself nodding, time and again, but you wish you didn’t have to: the symptoms are dire, the diagnosis is clear, and the prognosis is not good” — ricketyclick
“A hell of a ride…a thriller, in the best sense of the genre” — Concerned American at Western Rifle Shooters Association
Those are in rough chronological order as they appeared online.
Corpse in Armor is available at Amazon, so get it while it’s hot.
And every conservative should be thankful that he is:
“Forget about the New Black Panther Party case,” writes Abigail Thernstrom. It’s “very small potatoes.” She is suddenly upset over the “overheated rhetoric filled with insinuations and unsubstantiated charges” about the case that she grudgingly admits may “perhaps” have been a civil-rights violation. So she has explained in an NRO op-ed. Naturally, her “conservative dissent” has been seized on by the “nothing to see here” Left, which can now get back to its preferred big-potatoes-diet of Bristol Palin, Karl Rove subpoenas, and leaking classified information.
Thernstrom is one of an elite corps of elegant conservative scholars who has slowly built a body of work that commands respect. She and her husband Stephan have written several books on the question of race in America that depart from the dreary and deadly liberal script.
But McCarthy is having none of her casual wave-off of the New Black Panther case and the problems at the Obama Justice Department that the case has thrown a spotlight on. He’s pissed off at Thernstrom, to put it in direct terms, and he’s close to rage about the way she dismisses DOJ whistleblower J. Christian Adams.
It’s worth your time to give it a read. McCarthy’s a good writer and he has this one nailed.
Cribbed this from FrontPage. It’s Pat Condell, who lets it fly, as he always does:
A hell of a ride, placing the reader in almost the same position as the characters…
And there’s a “Buy it” recommendation that I much appreciate.
Billy Beck introduced me to the Western Rifle Shooters Association a ways back and I think that they follow, implicitly, M. Stanton Evans’ Rule of Insufficient Paranoia, which is that “no matter how bad you think a situation is, it’s worse.” Beck was right ten years ago about where this country was headed (”The Clintonism has seeped, now”) and he understood that the situation was indeed growing ripe for “Our Allende.” And I call the WRSA the “forward tactical observation unit.” We are in a cold civil war and the territory at stake is just what it was during the Cold War: the extended order of liberty, including personal liberty, which makes the extended order work.
Democrats can put a stop to this, but they won’t.
That’s because they’re not in control of themselves, as a party.
Look at who they have as Congressional leaders.
That’s madness.
So it’s not just that we have “Our Allende.” We have a political party that has a full Marxist infrastructure with a huge captive lumpen clientariat that uses democratic process to vote for a living.
Then there’s the bourgeoistarian middle class that is bled to pay for it, under the party’s banner of “tax the rich.”
It was the New Deal that laid the foundation for this mess, with its blubbery technocratic hands and its remorseless Ponzi scheme.
Our Allende is just the endgame come upon us.