Archive for November, 2009
The Best Music Review I’ve Read All Year
I hope one day to write an album review that is as utterly devastating and completely accurate as this one. Moe Lane has a brilliant excerpt but I think the sharpest part of the blade is in this bit before the section Moe quoted. The arrangements, though, are jarringly slick, with sleigh bells and gossamer [...]
What’s All This “Re-” About, Politico?
I thought this was an amusing headline and lede from The Politico. GOP tries to recapture town hall anger Republicans are looking to resurrect the angry town halls of August in the last few weeks of November. That’s very nice and all that, but you can’t recapture something you never had. What Ranu Maju has [...]
Our Foreign Policy Seems to Consist Solely of Figuring Out Ways to Hand People Over to Tyrants
When this man is executed, it will be, in part, our fault. Earlier this month, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, a self-described “Muslim Zionist,” traveled to the U.S. to address audiences in New York City and at Yale University. Publisher of the largest English-language daily newspaper in Bangladesh, Choudhury has been jailed, beaten, nearly blinded, and [...]
Happy Birthday, Marines, From a Grateful Fan
I am an unabashed admirer of the United States Marine Corps and those who have earned the privelege to call themselves Marines. One of my very good friends, about whom I’ve written before, is a Marine of the old-school vintage. I called him this morning, as I do every November 10th, to wish him a Happy [...]
I Don’t Care About Nidal Hasan, But I Do Care About Islam
I really don’t care why Major Nidal Malik Hasan tried to kill upwards of 50 soldiers at Fort Hood last week. Look, I understand he had grievances. Some of the other boys in school other soldiers with whom he worked in the past gave him static for being a Muslim (and, hey, Nidal, way to prove [...]
The Delivery Presents: Votes, Vacuous Foreign Policy, and “V”.
Episode 10 of The Delivery is large, in charge, and dressed snappier than El DeBarge. Okay, even I’m willing to admit that was weak but it’s not easy to find new ways of saying “Hey, here’s the podcast” and just kind of lobbing it toward you like it was a lukewarm brewski. Still, you can [...]
That’s What You Said