So I was watching the coverage of the Republican convention and one of the things that the right-leaning hosts on Fox News and the liberal-leaning hosts on the broadcast networks could agree on was that the ethnic and racial diversity of Republican governors and younger Senators was a good sign for . . . . Continue Reading »
This, of ourse, is the title of the instant classic of an exchange between Nick Eberstadt and Bill Galston in Saturday’s WALL STREET JOURNAL . Here are the summaries given of each position: Eberstadt: “With a treasure chest of government-supplied benefits readily available, a taker . . . . Continue Reading »
We left off the analysis of ALMOST FAMOUS at the key point, where we were about to get into what it says about Rock and Fame. That is a complicated subject, because you need to consider the phenomenon of Fame itself, before you get into what Rock does with it. Bowie’s deliberately sour song is . . . . Continue Reading »
So I may be a voice of negativism and cynicism. So be it. I find the weepy RNC convention in its appeals to compassion to be silly. The very thing they lambast about so-called bleeding heart liberals, they return in tenfold with oceans of tears. Since when did American exceptionalism become the . . . . Continue Reading »
Keep the Louisiana parishes in your prayers this week . . . looks as if Isaac didn’t hurt NOLA so much, but out in bayou and Cajun country, tough times. And since, alas, our Louisiana trip has been delayed, I can only musically travel there via you-tube. Unlike some, taken in as per usual by . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Romney gave a win by default speech. The theory seems to be that what is holding the marginal voter(s) back from supporting Romney is that they think he is a guy who doesn’t care about anything but making a buck for himself and that “humanizing” (I hate that word) is the key to . . . . Continue Reading »
1. My thoughts were overwhelmingly positive so I’ll start with the constructive criticism. It would have been better if Ryan had taken some time to explain Romney’s Ryan-Wyden-style Medicare reform proposal. It would have slowed the speech down a little, but in Ryan’s case, that . . . . Continue Reading »
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