Tag: "James Lileks"
It Ain’t Minnesota, But It Feels Just as Miserable
It looks like James Lileks had the same kind of Thursday I did. Curse the Thursday that feels like Friday; you feel like you’re in one of those loud long movies where the bad guy has been defeated twice already but comes back one more time, howling for blood. It’s partly the weather – it [...]
Christmas in London, 1941.
It’s don’t have much to say about this movie made about a Christmas in a world that we have thrown into the garbage can of cynicism and egotism. Watching Britain celebrate Christmas during the Blitz and listening to the American narrator all but begging his countrymen to get into the fight and help them put [...]
I May Get Rich Yet
Well, here’s a heck of an idea for making a few bones, from James Lileks at his spiffy new screedblog site. I’m off to the Mall to sell razor blades so people can scrape off their “Question Authority” bumper stickers. Just remember: Dissent is still the highest form of patriotism. Except now it will be [...]
Twelve Years of Palinsanity?
I’ve written more about Sarah Palin, and the crazed reactions to her, in the past two weeks than probably anyone else in the time I’ve had The Shack. I’ve honestly watned to write less about her but the stories just keep pulling me back in. I’m less fascinated with her, though, than I am with [...]
This is Reason One Why Sarah Palin Was a Great Pick
You want to know the Number One reason why I think that Sarah Palin was a brilliant choice by John McCain? She is scaring the progressives to death. They have gone well past bowel-emptying fear straight to Level Four of the McCoy Freakout Scale. The amount of vicious flailing from the left in the past [...]
That’s What You Said