Bush Gets Stoned
Posted on July 28th, 2008 by Daniel McCarthy
I can’t wait to see this — Oliver Stone’s “W.” Link via LRC.
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The Associated Press Warns of “Deadly Tarantulas”
Posted on July 26th, 2008 by Daniel McCarthy
What kind of people is the Associated Press hiring these days? Christopher Sherman reports luridly on dangers lurking in Texas floodwaters — “stinging fire ants, snakes and even deadly tarantulas.”
Even deadly tarantulas? I suppose the emphatic adverb is appropriate, because a deadly tarantula would be real news. There is no such thing: [...]
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The Awful New X-Files Movie
Posted on July 26th, 2008 by Daniel McCarthy
I wonder if next time Chris Carter could shoehorn a few more fashionable causes into his generic (and thrill-less) thriller script masquerading as an “X-Files” movie. The new one, “X Files: I Want My Money Back,” only touches on gay marriage, stem cells, and pedophile priests. And a bit of Russophobia, too, though nothing linked [...]
Filed under: Film, Pop culture
Vacation Is a Time to Blog
Posted on July 19th, 2008 by Daniel McCarthy
TAC began its summer break yesterday, after sending to print the new issue (Leon Hadar has the cover story, on the failure of nation-building in Afghanistan). While the other editors have had the good sense to disperse far and wide — with literary editor Freddy Gray getting as far as Rwanda — I’ll be lurking [...]
A Satire on America in the Middle East
Posted on July 15th, 2008 by Daniel McCarthy
I’m on a Christopher Buckley binge at the moment: read Florence of Arabia earlier this week; now I’m on Little Green Men. Flo only takes an afternoon or so, and it’s excellent. Consider this passage about American opinion regarding a crisis in the Middle East:
There were those who urged caution, and those who urged that [...]
Naomi Wolf at the Ron Paul Revolution Rally
Posted on July 13th, 2008 by Daniel McCarthy
I’ve blogged some of my general impressions of the rally, which was yesterday, here. I heard a 6,000-attendee estimate from a couple of sources, though Kelley Vlahos may be right in thinking it was fewer. (I don’t really know what 6,000 or 2,500 people would look like.) In any case, it was a great [...]
It’s Not Too Late for Carl Weathers to Run for Office
Posted on July 9th, 2008 by Daniel McCarthy
Two “Predator” actors — Ahnold and Jesse “The Body” Ventura — have already become U.S. governors. Now Sonny Lanham is running as a Libertarian for Mitch McConnell’s Senate seat in Kentucky. Slate has produced this so-so video about “Predator’s” political legacy. (Hat tip to Lew Rockwell.)
Filed under: Film, Politics, Pop culture
The WSJ on Kent Snyder
Posted on July 9th, 2008 by Daniel McCarthy
A rather good remembrance of Kent Snyder, campaign chairman of Ron Paul 2008, in the Wall Street Journal. Scroll down below the Jeese Helms obit.
The widget in my post below isn’t working properly: it will take you to the donation page for Kent’s medical fund without any problem, but the counter isn’t updating the total. [...]
“Atheistic Taliban”
Posted on July 7th, 2008 by Daniel McCarthy
That’s Jerome Tuccille’s description of the followers of Ayn Rand, in this Reason TV video. He has harsh words for Murray Rothbard, too. I don’t agree with him on either score, actually, but here’s the clip:
Tuccille is getting modal in his old age, but his youthful memoir, It Usually Begins With Ayn Rand, is [...]
Menckeniana This Fall
Posted on July 5th, 2008 by Daniel McCarthy
In September, Dissident Books is bringing out a new edition of Mencken’s classic Notes on Democracy:
H. L. Mencken, America’s greatest journalist and critic, wrote Notes on Democracy more than eighty years ago. His era—the years of World War I, Prohibition, and the Scopes trial—was strikingly like our own. Notes isn’t just a provocative and funny [...]