Paul Fussell died yesterday. Wartime is the best book I’ve read on World War II, and Doing Battle is a painfully honest account of being a soldier. Here’s how the latter starts: Late in the afternoon of March 15, 1945, in a small woods in southeastern France, Boy Fussell, aged twenty, was ill treated by …
Midday Open Thready Thing
According to the Entire Right Blogothingy, Twitter is apparently the new LAMESTREAM MEDIA (lightning, scary organ music, moose falling from the sky): Also, The Entire Right Blogothingy consists entirely of Dana Loesch. Open thread.
Abort This Campaign
Ahh, SC Republicans: In what appears to be a last ditch attempt to halt Newt Gingrich’s late momentum in South Carolina, a fake CNN Breaking News alert was emailed to state Republican activists early Thursday morning claiming that the former House Speaker pressured his ex-wife to have an abortion. CNN did not send out the …
Warriors: R.I.P., Rev. Shuttlesworth & Professor Bell
I am not the best person to be covering this, but there are some lives to whose passing attention must be paid. The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Professor Derrick Bell were both, in their distinct and unique ways, true warriors for justice. Diane Mcwhorter, in the NYTimes, eulogizes Rev. Shuttlesworth: IF you recognized the …
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About as credible as his former employers
Two statements, one from former Fox News personality John Kasich: TOLEDO — About 75 protesters, some of them angry and all of them soaked, stood outside a bar in driving rain last night chanting “our town, union town.” And so began Gov. John Kasich’s ground game to defend Senate Bill 5. Kasich’s first official campaign …
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Quote of the Day: Adam Smith Profiles Barack Obama
Reading Nicholas Phillipson’s admirable new(ish) biography of Adam Smith walking to my office this morning, I came across a passage from The Theory of Moral Sentiments that seems to me to capture Obama’s style and theory of governance remarkably well: When he cannot conquer the rooted prejudices of the people by reason and persuasion …(h)e …
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It’s guys like you
I’ve long felt that Mickey Kaus is the perfect example of everything that is wrong with our Peretz-ridden, God-forsaken media environment. So it doesn’t come as much of a surprise that he’s just joined forces with Tucker Carlson. The good news is that two of the internet’s finest prose stylists — Tbogg and James Wolcott …