On...Getting Fired Up

Want to know what really fires up a Conservative?

Read this essay by Andrew Ferguson in the Weekly Standard. By the time you get to the end a conservative will be shaking his/her head and pacing around the room or stomping their feet or putting a fist through a wall. It boils the blood. But whatta ya goin' to do?



Then you think that Newsweek is dying, The New York Times will get bailed out or die, and no one watches CBS news anymore. Ah, the market works.

Oh, yeah and Helen Thomas will eventually kick the bucket. By the way, doesn't she (and I use she lightly) look like Emperor Palpatine in a bad wig?

On..David Brooks

Welcome Back (Hopefully to stay)

I've enjoyed David Brooks for sometime. His book Bobos in Paradise is a minor classic, but the last few years he has become the most staunch and mythical centrist on the planet. I've had a number of conversations about him with colleagues and he has almost become a joke on how middle of the road-utopian he has tried to be. I don't know if occurred when he was hired by the New York Times to be their token "conservative" or it's simply his good guy genes. Occasionally he has a good article but he's been so centrist it's sucked the life out of his writing. He had been the post-boy for post-partisanship. I don't know how such a smart guy can belief in such magical nonsense. Obama and Rove-clone Gibbs are already using bi-partisanship as a weapon against the Right. [Isn't Gibbs just odious? He makes me physically sick.]

Well, maybe Brooks is having the avalon-snakeskin removed from his eyes. He really nails this whole GM-Obama-Big Government mess on the head in his article today.

I encourage everyone to read it. It goes nicely with the Detroit News' latest editorial.

BROOKS: CAR DEALER-IN-CHIEF

DETROIT NEWS: DeFacto Take Over

On...National Review's Top 25 Conservative Films

I haven't posted because I've been both in Hilton Head and sick. Great combo, but I've come across this list that is like any good list because it instills debate. There are a few surprises here. Ultimately I wished they would have had the authors write more than a paragraph for each.

I certainly agree with the Whit Stillman selections. Why won't that guy make another movie?

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