The Clintons weren’t all bad, of course. True, they have been a fount of ideas for new government programs — and Hillary, more disturbingly, an advocate of one particularly large program — but Bill, at least, and even his leftist Labor Secretary, Robert Reich, intended in part to use government to make America more […]
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Can you guess which important cultural icon — film character John Rambo (due back in theatres this month in his fourth film) or nineteenth-century French poet Arthur Rimbaud — each of the following ten phrases describes?
•Joined the army
•Sent to Southeast Asia, grew disillusioned
•Dealt in rifles and other weapons
•Had longtime homosexual affair […]
Turning our horrified gaze away from the political primaries, we find an impressive media year ahead — starting with the monster movie Cloverfield, from Lost/Alias co-creator J.J. Abrams, rumored to have been influenced by H.P. Lovecraft, who I mentioned at the end of yesterday’s entry. But besides that:
•DarkHorizons.com reports that this summer’s Iron Man […]
Well, so much for that Ron Paul thing — he was fine on Leno last night, with or without media training from me, but he didn’t pull off any miracles in today’s New Hampshire primary and now has other PR problems, which I will attempt to explain below. As promised, I’ll turn my attention […]
After the pre-New Hampshire debates yesterday, I wasn’t left thinking Hillary Clinton looked bad — her fleeting minute of controlled anger was far less creepy than the perpetual smoldering hostility McCain exudes (as in his remark about flip-flopping Romney being “the candidate of change,” which was delivered in such a menacing […]
A few observations as we’re poised between the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary:
•This past Wednesday’s Lolita Bar talk by Michael Malice saw two amazing coincidences: (1) Mitch Verter, one of the Brown-alum Leo Buscaglia fans I blogged about one month ago — who has since talked to me about […]
Noted anti-fascist Jonah Goldberg mentioned on the Corner that Native American activist Russell Means led the Lakota nation in declaring its independence from the U.S. this week, inviting people to live on their land (sprawling across five Western states) tax-free if they too renounce U.S. citizenship.
A few weird connections that Goldberg didn’t mention:
•Means, in addition […]
That former friend whose insane father had accidentally blown himself up — along with his fringe “church” — crossed my mind as I watched the Branch Davidians compound burn on TV in April 1993 (from the postmodern safety of the McDonald’s just north of Times Square, on a lunchbreak just […]
One of the most zealous, decisive human beings I have ever known — a Catholic conservative with libertarian leanings — now lives in Iowa and reports that with only hours left to decide she is torn about whether to vote for McCain, Romney, or Paul.
Scott Nybakken says in her position, he’d vote for Thompson.
I urged […]
ToddSeavey.com Book Selection of the Month (January 2008 — on sale today): Made in America
Michael Malice, co-author of this blog’s first Book Selection of the new year, will speak tomorrow night (Wed., Jan. 2, 8pm) at Lolita Bar, with a rousing introduction from me and autographed bookplates at the ready to slap on your copy […]
