Mike Tidmus : Blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
O’Reilly and Coulter embrace faith-based fascism (video: Media Matters for America) Yes, indeedy! Coulter’s book — each and every one of them for that matter — and the Manhattan Declaration have everything in common. They’re both steaming piles of merde intended to pave the way for ChristoFascism, which just loudly knock-knocked on America’s door, as Sinclair Lewis...
Classically Liberal (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
There are flaws, in fanatical religion, which have been well known for centuries. Jesus referred to it in the religious leaders of his day when he said: “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye are like unto whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.” This moral hypocrisy was something...
"Let's Not Talk About Movies" (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
" Dodsworth " ( William Wyler , 1936) "Why are Americans always such snobs?" asks David Niven 's snobbish Capt. Clyde Lockert. Well, the answer is that there are two kinds of people in this world: people who lump people together with presumptive generalizations and those who don't. And the best place to lump people together is a cruise ship. Just ask the captain of "The Love...
Acephalous (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
It must have been difficult to be a conservative last night. On the one hand, you threw your muscle behind your perfect candidate and he lost a district which last went Democratic back before the Half-Breeds and the Stalwarts fought for control of the GOP; on the other, you got a television show made especially for you! The remake of V is an exercise in allegorical drift-correction: the original series...
The Pink Flamingo (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
As a fan of the original version of "V" I was prepared not to like the new ABC series. I was wrong. I love the hope, change, peace, universal health care .... and complete annihilation of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
TED BURKE, like it or not (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Steinbeck is of the generation that arrives just after the Muckrakers,Upton Sinclair, Frank Norris, Sinclair Lewis, who thought that fiction was something of a sociological/anthropological tool in getting at the skewed relations between races and classes in a capitalist economy. Some larger truth, discovered by a focus imagination, could get beyond supposition and provide the correct vision for reform....
The Pump Handle (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
“How can it be safe with this line so fast'” …. “Come to the plant and you will see.” …”when a visitor comes they slow it down and when they leave they speed it up.” “The line is too fast.” “People say their hands hurt a lot.” ….”Many people are injured and then they fire [...]
Boswell and Books (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
So tonight we're reading Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It's an hour or so before we meet. Will I get one person like I did the first couple of months, or will this intrigue many and we'll get 12, our high point for Netherland? The answer is likely somewhere in between. While we did cause a sales pop (we sold 20 copies this year of the book, compared to 4 for the Downer Avenue Schwartz...
Boxing the Octopus (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Just in time for Halloween, a few ghosts who might startle you--bestsellers, Pulitzer, Nobel, and Oscar winners--writer's writers who moonlighted... Katherine Anne Porter In 1962, Porter's novel Ship of Fools sailed to the bestseller list and in 1966, she won a Pulitzer and a National Book Award for her Collected Stories . But her first published work was My Chinese Marriage by Mae T. Franking, a memoir...
Fighting in the Shade™ (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
In 1935, the avowed socialist Sinclair Lewis' novel "It Can't Happen Here" was published. At the time, Germany's NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers Party) had been in power for two years with its party leader, Adolph Hitler occupying the office of Reich Chancellor. The policies put in place by the German government were already generating outcries in western societies and the title...
Jacket Copy (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
When the Nobel Prize in literature was announced this month, the name "Herta Muller" met much American head-scratching. Muller, an ethnically German Romanian who writes of trials of living under a repressive dictatorship, has a strong reputation in Europe that...
The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Just when you thought it was quicker to take the bus than wait on a Terrorist Scam Authority checkpoint at the airport: GREYHOUND BUS PASSENGERS GET SCREENED, PAT DOWN IN SPECIAL TSA OPERATION Bryce Williams wasn’t expecting to walk through a metal detector or have his bags screened for explosives at the Greyhound bus terminal near downtown [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Last winter, the HeadButler.com community raised funds for a medical mission to Honduras. Now four students at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and a team...
Show Tracker (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Click here to download TV listings for the week of Oct. 18 - 14 in PDF format This week's TV Movies MUSIC MAN: 'Great Performances' features Gustavo Dudamel's debut as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducting Gustav Mahler's...
lewrockwell.com (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Ron Shirtz on American dictatorship.
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