Category Archives: Culture
When Messiahs go Mano a Mano
Thomas Sowell is just fine with Newt. And Jacob Weisberg thinks Newt is nuts. Meanwhile, “The One We’ve Been Waiting For” rates himself the 4th best president in history, edged out of the top spot by Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Johnson.
Obit Week
The year 2011 was the end of the line for guys who changed the world – Steve Jobs in one way, Vaclav Havel in another. Anne Applebaum tells how Havel ‘s essay “Power to the Powerless” changed the world. His great insight was that all totalitarian regimes are based on a lie. If individuals “live in the truth” the lie dies and the regime collapses. That’s what happened with the velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia.
As it happens, Havel was overshadowed in death by the totalitarian leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-Il. Or Kim Jong-Dead, as Rush Limbaugh kept referring to him yesterday.
The Dear Leader’s birth on a sacred mountaintop is said to have been announced by a talking swallow. In addition to his miraculous golf scorecard, he claimed the power to order up perfect weather for his birthdays. He wasn’t completely without humility, though, having never claimed to cause the planet to heal or the oceans to recede.
Many tree bark eating North Koreans who mourned the death of their epicurian leader (his annual bar tab for Hennessy Cognac alone was over half a million dollars) don’t seem to be “living in the truth” so much. But then what would you expect from a nation of racist dwarfs.
Port Authority
Dockworkers and truckers on the west coast were largely ungracious about the Occupy movement’s efforts on their behalf. Protesters attempted to disrupt capitalism by shutting down ports from San Diego to Anchorage, causing workers to be sent home without pay.
The president, who disrupted the the Keystone Pipeline and the jobs that go with it, has previously said of the protesters, “you are the reason I ran for office“.
Broadway Tim
I stumbled across this by Heather Wilhelm. She says, “It’s a funny thing these days; you say old-fashioned things, you get called a provocateur.”
She was reviewing a book called Girl Land.
Love of the Game
In the wake of a scandal involving trinkets, tattoos, and summer jobs, Ohio State hired a new football coach – for $26 mil over six years. Problem solved.
