The Dailypundit, aka Bill Quick, announces that he has passed his California real estate exam. Head over there, say congrats, and hit his tip jar so he can have a little time to make that first sale.
My Soft Side
You are Trinity, from “The Matrix.”
Strong, beautiful- you epitomize the ultimate
heroine.
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Must See
This Should Be Interesting
The title of this movie alone should create some buzz:
I don’t know if he hates America (I can list quite a few Americans he loathes), but a title like this is bound to mean that even those who normally find Moore distatsteful will rise to hs defense. At any rate, I will suspend judgement until I see the movie. I will be content if all they do is go through and document anmd expose his lies, so that people will quit pretending Moore has something to add to the political discussion. He is a fraud and a con-artist, albeit a good one.
(Via Right We Are)
The Dailypundit Has Returned
The title says it all. Mr. Quick is back from his hiatus.
*** Update ***
VH1 Diva
I just watched the VH1 Diva’s Duet 2003, and it was surprisingly entertaining. I really enjoyed the duets with Stevie Wonder, and Queen Latifah was awesome. Every time I see her I am more impressed- is there anything she can’t do?
Reading Assignment
Hitchens reviews that bilious pile of twaddle that is Sidney Blumenthal’s The Clinton Wars:
Not long ago in this magazine David Brooks mapped a political sociology elaborating on the notion that the country was in theory divisible between heartland “red” districts and more coastal “blue” ones, the colors showing (rather counterintuitively, perhaps) a respective difference between Republican and Democratic areas. Soon afterward one of Bill Clinton’s reliable yes-men, Paul Begala, issued a response, asserting that it was in “red” districts that gay men like Matthew Shepard were lynched, or black men like James Byrd were dragged behind pickup trucks until they died.
If this meant anything, it meant that the difference between a donkey and an elephant was the difference between democracy and fascism, or between pluralism and absolutism. But just wait for the good people’s party to be caught doing something shady or vile; at once you will be told that it’s no worse than what the bad people’s party would do or has done. Immediately, in other words, the apologist will admit that the game is up, and that he is judging his own team by a standard (of ghastliness in others) that he himself helped to set. “They all do it” means, in this circle, “We all do it.” But the apologist won’t concede this consciously or honestly. Faced with the task of explaining the Clinton pardons, including one to Marc Rich, Sidney Blumenthal, a former senior Clinton adviser and friend of Dick Morris’s, immediately responds, in The Clinton Wars, that Richard Nixon pardoned Jimmy Hoffa; and as for the $190,000 in gifts accumulated by the Clintons, it was “roughly the same amount as the preceding Bushes had accepted.” Since he elsewhere accuses the Republican Party of being essentially lawless and segregationist, he might admit that he’s setting himself a low standard.