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Category Archives: Culture
Ted Baxter
While I probably agree with the guy on 80% of the ‘issues’, Ted Baxter‘s delivery and the rationales he gives for his positions, are, to put it bluntly, embarrassing lame. (Edmund Gettier, after all, proved that one can believe the … Continue reading
Mods
We are the Mods! We are the Mods! We are! We are! We are the Mods!
Posted in Culture, International, Music, UK
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Obama’s 5th Estate
From Politico: L.A. Times 2-col. lead, “Hollywood plays key role for health law: White House counts on the entertainment industry to promote its plan, especially to young people,” by Maeve Reston: “Wedged into the blotter on [president of production] Mike … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Democrat Party, Hollywood, Left, Politics
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Brooklyn Jewish Troubadours
In Tablet (“A New Read on Jewish Life”), Lee Smith writes “How Delmore Schwartz Saved My Life: Or at least kept Lou Reed from punching me at a dinner party“): The American poets who captured this paradox best—Schwartz and other … Continue reading
Marshall Berman: Interpreter of “Urban Life”
With respect to the stereotype of the jewish-NYC-leftwing-intellectual, this obituary of one Marshall Berman is about as ideal-type as you can get: ‘In a sweat, melting, shedding clothes and tears, flashing hot and cold.” This was how Marshall Berman described … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Marxism, Jewish
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Difficult Men: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad
Theo Tait reviews Brett Martin’s book Difficult Men: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad: Brett Martin’s Difficult Men does for the outstanding American TV dramas of recent years what Peter Biskind‘s Easy Riders, Raging … Continue reading
A Brother’s Life With Cerebral Palsy
A very moving piece in Slate: “A Photographer Focuses on His Twin Brother’s Life With Cerebral Palsy.“
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Sci Fi & Anti-White Bias
Over at the leftwing Guardian newspaper, they are fretting about the social injustice that is sci-fi/fantasy literature. The big question, you see, is “why the majority of writers are straight white males from the US and UK, and why they … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-White, Culture, Literature
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Hitler in Hollywood
David Denby weighs in on two recent books which push a ‘jewish Hollywood collaborated with Nazism by not making explicit anti-Nazi movies’ meme. It’s a meme I find rather bizarre, and one that — given the prevalence of anti-Nazi movies … Continue reading
Ed Asner’s Moment of Lucidity
Wow. Where to even start with this one. Longtime kneejerk-liberal, Ed Asner, momentarily cognizes the cognitive dissonance of his own leftwing ideology: Another reason some Hollywood progressives have been reticent to speak out against war in Syria, according to Asner, … Continue reading