Unless this is just a postmodernist art hoax, it appears this is a Nazi propaganda poster used in Belgium to depict the myriad evils of America — and as an American, I have to say I love that crazy-looking America-metaphor machine, which vaguely reminds me of the bar Chief Ike’s Mambo Room in DC (I [...]
The time has come: Atlas Shrugged starts filming in Los Angeles next week, as a four-movie series, with or without stars.
And remember: the first cable episode of Fox News Channel/Fox Business Network’s FreedomWatch with Judge Andrew Napolitano airs the next day, with me among the producers.
(And Rand Paul is up for election to the Senate [...]
ToddSeavey.com Book Selection of the Month (May 2010): English Thought in the Nineteenth Century by D.C. Somervell
What a great find. I had intended to blog about this rich, philosophical, and surprisingly funny little book earlier in the month (sorry — new job) and now realize I wouldn’t have been doing half bad if I’d [...]
Wednesday, June 2 (8pm)
featuring:
•Christian Toth, off-off-Broadway actor and advertising worker, arguing YES (that it really was that guy who lived in Stratford-on-Avon)
VS.
•Gerit Quealy, journalist, NBC.com style editor, former actor, and part-time paleographer, arguing NO (that who it was — whether the Earl of Oxford, Anakin, or other — may be unclear, but it wasn’t that [...]
People objecting to Rand Paul’s adherence to property rights (vs. adherence to anti-discrimination law) is reasonable — even if I don’t share their position — but I’m already getting tired of the assertions, from both right and left, that Paul somehow contradicted himself. Call his position wrong if you like, but don’t pretend it lacks [...]
•Republican Tim Burns lost in Pennsylvania, and many were calling that special election (to replace the deceased John Murtha) a bellwether for November — which would seem to bode unexpectedly ill for the Republicans — but since Pennsylvania’s backwards 12th congressional district is the only congressional district in the nation that voted for Democratic presidential [...]
Sorry I didn’t get around to writing about that book on the Victorians (or anything else) in the latter half of last week. I’m still adjusting to my new work schedule at Fox and other tumult — but here, as compensation, is an entry praising a man from England who thinks a bit like [...]
As TalkingPointsMemo noted last week, poor Bob Bennett, who failed yesterday to get the GOP’s nomination for a reelection run for senator from Utah, is often fiscally conservative. But often isn’t good enough anymore, especially under current fiscal circumstances — which were brought about by people thinking an occasional nod to fiscal sobriety is [...]
My in-depth analysis, by which I mean reading the chart Drudge linked to of the parties’ respective policy positions, suggests that the issues on which the Tories and Lib Dems can probably reach accord/compromise in UK post-election negotiations are saner, so to speak, than the issues on which they’re split. They’re at odds on defense, [...]
(One preliminary nostalgia note: A-Ha should not break up.)
The first comic book I ever bought that actually featured a team of superheroes was, I think, Avengers 149 (July 1976), featuring Iron Man and other heroes trussed up on slabs with electrodes attached to them by the evil Roxxon Oil corporation and their diabolical ally, an [...]
You have to love New York City — and it’s a busy place. Tonight, for example, I’m seeing A-Ha (with, as it turns out, a New Wave-liking libertarian atheist who doesn’t want kids, who is a co-worker of a friend of a friend, though this is largely happenstance) and perhaps going from there to [...]
In this superheroic week of the Iron Man 2 premiere, I’m reminded that I’m probably one of the few people who was watching Larry Doyle’s career with interest back before he became a Simpsons producer, New York magazine editor, and novelist — because back when I met him once — when I was a newcomer [...]
I. While I’m content to read a Rand speech today to Columbia students (4pm in Hamilton, Room 303, north of West 114th, near Amsterdam Ave.), some political speakers aim higher. I heard of one who spent the weekend (if memory serves) addressing a gathering of a thousand libertarian women in Texas (I’m pleased to hear [...]