What he says. Oh, those crazy journalists. You know the ones I'm talking about. The one who described John Kerry as "French-looking" and made up some silly locution to show how out of touch he was -- "Who among us doesn't like NASCAR?" -- even … [Continue reading]
Valmy 2008
Of all the serious oddities this year above and untouched by the day-to-day banalities of our media and alleged intellectual class (has anyone else been amused and appalled by the plaintive emails for our 'leading specialists' ' desperate for … [Continue reading]
Barbecue of the Absurdities
Forget the miserable movie long ago with the terribly miscast Tom Hanks and even more unwatchable Melanie Griffith. Wolfe's Bonfire is too dense, too intricate and simply too damn long to make into a contemporary movie -- especially with sub 120 … [Continue reading]
Hypmotized
The (a?) problem with bluffs can be two fold: (i) they have to be credible; and (ii) they lose suasion geometrically through overuse. Perhaps if the Israelis ran an exercise over Florida (synchronized with a NASCAR championship, that might be the … [Continue reading]
Kumbaya In Public
Uh huh. So, what are the odds of this happening now? It would be interesting reading to see what the internal polling is on her right now (even as McCain and Obama fight over not fighting over their spouses -- pretty Monty Python in a way). … [Continue reading]
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