Where do you start when you hear everything at once?
My admiration of Emma Thompson helped me to overcome my reluctance to watch the movie Stranger than Fiction. Watching the movie was a small triumph over my fear that Queen Latifa would settle for yet another roll that might call into question her royal designation. Last week, my friend John and I were discussing the [...]
Jeremiah Wright spoke to an estimated 12,000 people at yesterday’s NAACP dinner in Detroit. I watched on CNN. Here’s part of it: I wasn’t surprised to hear a talented, engaging speaker. I admit to having avoided the notorious youtube clips whose out-of-context media saturation goaded the Clintons and the media corps into a feeding frenzy, [...]
This video has been making the rounds. The apparently pro-Hillary Talk Left blogs about it here. I can’t mention enough that I’m not a Hillary Hater. If she had won the primary fair-and-square, I would’ve spent the next seven months explaining out of one side of my mouth to my Madison friends how Hillary’s not [...]
Lot’s to talk about here. After all, it’s a 37-minute speech. But it’s sunny out 45 degrees outside, so I’ll save the commentary for later. It wasn’t quite perfect, but far better than anything anyone else running for president ever (did I say “ever”?) has ever said on the issue(s) of race in America. The [...]
I’m obviously by no means the first to criticize modern news media. Moreover, when I do get my feathers ruffled by it, it’s not because of corporate ownership and the like, which many of my friends are much quicker to criticize. I don’t mind editorializing; in fact, I love it. What I do mind is [...]
Tangents for the Chasing
