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Category Archives: Popular Culture
Lovestruck
I know, some people think this joke is past its sell-by date, but I can’t get enough of them. I liked the reassurance about helping her trim.
Not So Mad About Obama
The bloom is off the rose:
I have to say that I liked these, too.
The Meaning Of Glamour
An essay by Virginia Postrel. I’m pretty indifferent and immune to glamour and charisma, which is one of the reasons I saw through Obama right away, but many otherwise smart people obviously aren’t, so glamour is more important than many think.
Daniel Boone Was A Man
A big man. Fess Parker has died. We used to see him when we went to the Fess Parker winery up north of Los Olivos. I wonder how many kids today know who Daniel Boone or Davy Crockett were?
[Evening update]
I am negligent, given the occasion and timing, in not linking to Davy Crockett’s famous speech on his obligation to the Constitution. Sadly, we live in a time when not many of either party give much of a damn about it, but certainly not the Democrats.
Translation
Why it matters. I recall in high school when I read an English translation of Dante’s Inferno (the only way I could read it, being almost completely innocent of Italian), and being impressed at the ability of the translator to take poetry from one language to another.
Where No Man Has Ever Gone Before
And, let’s hope, never goes again:
[Via Phil Bowermaster]
A Movie Trailer
This is pretty funny.
Et Tu, Mary Ann?
Dawn Wells thinks that a Gilligan’s Island remake has to have diversity.
She is roundly and justly mocked at Free Republic. With a bonus Biden/Obama photoshop.
She just lost my vote in the next “Mary Ann or Ginger?” poll.
Tom Hanks
…the most disturbing phrase of all was Hanks’ suggestion that the Japanese wished to “kill,” us, while we in turn wanted to “annihilate” them. Had they developed the bomb or other such weapons of mass destruction (and they had all sorts of plans of creating WMDs), and won the war, I can guarantee Hanks that he would probably would not be here today, and that his Los Angeles would look nothing like a prosperous and modern Tokyo.
You’d have thought that someone who seems so interested in history, particularly of the space program and the war, would be better informed about it. But there just seems to be something in the water in Hollywood. America — racist and evil, America’s enemies — justifiable behavior as a reaction to our evil racism and imperialism.
This is, in fact, still the popular media narrative for the current war, in which if we’d just leave those poor Muslims alone, and apologize for fighting back in the Crusades, they’d stop trying to kill us infidels and establish a new caliphate.