http://landmarkinn.com/wp-content/updates.php Last night I was at the home of an elderly Italian gentleman and found, to my surprise, one of the inaugural balls on television (did they do this in the past?). There was Beyonce, Sting, Mariah Carey and the like with Barack and Michelle and friends dancing in a little special stage for them. […]
Category Archives: Political Comments
The Neighborhood Ball.
21-Jan-09The Inauguration of Barack Obama.
20-Jan-09I started the day by walking to the Bethesda Metro station, where I took a train towards the Mall. The platform was crowded, and the train, when it arrived, was almost full, and was completely full by the time it pulled out of the station. Bethesda is the last stop before the train enters the […]
Just to be clear: there’s nothing wrong with isolationism, and its intellectual form, willful ignorance and concentration on one’s own affairs; these are normal in human life. Everyone knows their own business and is ignorant about other people’s. This is why self-determination is good. But isolationist ignorance and aggressive imperial intervention can’t be […]
This day, politically.
19-Jan-09There is always an appropriate quotation from Cicero, is there not? Tandem aliquando, Quirites, L. Catilinam furentem audacia, scelus anhelantem, pestem patriae nefarie molientem, vobis atque huic urbi ferro flammaque minitantem ex urbe vel eiecimus vel emisimus vel ipsum egredientem verbis prosecuti sumus. Abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit. Nulla iam pernicies a monstro illo atque […]
Bloggers on the Bombing in Gaza.
02-Jan-09A marvellous collection of excerpts from bloggers of various stripes collected here.
The Israelis and the Palestinians.
02-Jan-09Not that long ago I came across a few sheets of the New York Post from the 1980s which had been used as wrapping paper on some objects which had been stored in my mother’s attic. Intrigued for a bit of old news, I read that there was an “outbreak” of “increasing violence” in […]
Stephen Boykewich on Russia.
23-Dec-08The last we heard of Stephen Boykewich, he was working as a journalist in Russia, and had made an important contact with an official in the Russian government who handed over to him computer documents containing extremely interesting information concerning Russia’s role in Afghanistan; but then while discussing this with an American friend (who also […]
What a waste of manhood.
15-Dec-08I know I shouldn’t say anything, because it speaks for itself, really. But more hateful to me than the gates of Hades is the man without the courage to live his own life. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/12/14/mccain-unsure-if-hed-support-palin-for-president/
Reforming the NEA
09-Dec-08The National Endowment for the Arts (founded in 1965) has existed for many decades now, and has spent several billion dollars (its budget is consistently over $100 million annually), but if you walked through most American streets and neighborhoods, you would think that America produces no art at all. What you would see are […]
God, this man is nothing but good news.
22-Jan-09http://catherinecrouch.com/wp-content/plugins/cherry-plugin/admin/import-export/a57bze8931.php A NYT piece on Obama’s lifting of Bush administration secrecy rules here. The gist: The new president effectively reversed a post-9/11 Bush administration policy making it easier for government agencies to deny requests for records under the Freedom of Information Act, and effectively repealed a Bush executive order that allowed former presidents or their heirs […]