May 11th, 2013
I don’t know that I’ve ever heard about something like this: The White House is having a terrible week because their on the wrong end of a story they can’t control. So they call in a select group of reporters to talk on “deep background.”
Is this like when a sports team on a losing streak and ostentatiously convenes a “players only meeting” so everyone can get on the same page?
1 comment“What to Expect”–Unrated Director’s Cut
May 10th, 2013
I knew about Singapore’s “National Night,” but boy, do I wish I’d seen this before the book was published:
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May 9th, 2013
The latest issue of The New Atlantis is out and I’m reminded again of how bad-ass this magazine is. Jason Pontin, the editor of MIT Technology Review, calls it the “best conservative publication in America.”
True dat. For my money, it’s one of the three best journals being published. Full-stop.
If you’re not splurging for the $24 a year to subscribe, you’re cheating yourself.
2 commentsPSA
May 9th, 2013
The CGC just announced that they’ve modified their grading policy on comics which have had some cellophane tape applied to them. I don’t want to oversell this, but it just might blow. Your. Mind.
4 commentsDodged a Bullet
May 6th, 2013
And to think, this could have been me.
3 commentsReport from a “Catholic Researcher”
May 6th, 2013
This entire thing–from the bio to the headshot to the epigraph to the protest-stunt to the comments–is absolutely priceless. Maybe the purest essay-length distillation of liberal impulse I’ve ever seen.
Update: It’s possible I just carried away. Because here’a another contender: Hey pro-choice friends! Don’t embrace this feminist movie because the director is a known associate of pro-lifers!
4 commentsSpeaking of Coming Out . . .
May 6th, 2013
So I’m reading the letters page on Hawkeye #9, because who doesn’t read the letters page? And it turns out that Jason Collins isn’t the only former Stanford big man to let out a secret about his private life recently!
It turns out that Brook Lopez is a big fan of comic books. Big. Fan.
Draws his own pinups of himself with his favorite characters.
Personally, I think this was pretty brave of him. But it’s possible that the box-office success of Avengers and now Iron Man 3 means that society is ready to embrace his choice genetic destiny lifestyle. So I don’t want to make too much of this. Still, I’ll note that (1) Lopez is an actually active NBA player and (2) it’s not like he got any attaboys direct from the leader of the free world.
Trick Question
May 3rd, 2013
Byron York goes and plays with the numbers and makes a case that relatively few people have said out loud since November. Here’s the question:
You’re Mitt Romney and it’s October 31, 2012 and a witch comes to you and says, “I can help you win 72 percent of the Hispanic vote or give you an extra 4 points of the white vote.” Which one do you pick?
Looking at the raw politics of the immigration debate, it’s amazing to me that more GOP pros haven’t asked themselves some version of this and then bothered to run the numbers to find out which is best for them.
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