Saturday, January 09, 2016

Is Tarantino's Hateful 8 Really a Boon to Climate Change?!

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In the very first sentence that Thomas Sotinel writes about the Hateful Eight in his (otherwise unconvinced) Le Monde film review, we lea...
Friday, January 08, 2016

In Michael Moore's New Film, He Shows Cinema-Goers, American and Foreign, How Every Other Place in the World Is Far More Humane than the U.S. Is

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Cara Buckley has a New York Times interview with Michael Moore , the point of whose “ Where to Invade Next ” is, basically, that everywher...
Tuesday, January 05, 2016

Michel Galabru: Good-Bye, Friend

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  Michel Galabru , 1922-2016

Have You Noticed What the Oregon Ranchers Have NOT Done?

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Has anybody noticed something special about the Oregon ranchers' revolt against the Absurdly Harsh Penalties That Sparked Their Protest...
Monday, January 04, 2016

"This idea of thinking Left or Right is a sin against the spirit and an illusion"

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André Glucksmann, one of the most prominent of the French “New Philosophers,” a group of former radicals who broke with Marxism in the ...
Sunday, January 03, 2016

Good-Bye to 2015, the year of lies, hoaxes, and outright fakeries

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Are we becoming a nations of liars, or a nation of people who like being lied to? Benny Huang says goodbye to "the year of lies, ...
Saturday, January 02, 2016

Smart Diplomacy: For 1st Time, Putin Officially Names the U.S. as a Threat

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A new appraisal names the United States as one of the threats to Russia's national security for the first time writes Vladimir Sold...
Friday, January 01, 2016

Lib-Dems don’t appeal to nostalgia and they usually chalk it up to racism when Republicans do; now that Team Clinton realizes that Bill is a lot more popular than Hillary is, nostalgia’s okay

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Hillary Clinton says that her “not-so-secret weapon” is her husband Bill reports Benny Huang , and has asked the former president to ...
Thursday, December 31, 2015

A year of absurdity and overreach: The common thread for the year 2015 in review is the collapse of judgment in, and the infantilization of society by, government

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Goodbye to 2015, a year of absurdity and overreach writes George Will . We learned that a dismal threshold has been passed. The value...

New Year's Resolutions

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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Big Star Wars Spoiler Ahead

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I went to see the new Star Wars film and I was (very) happy I did People have all...

In Obama's Simplified World, Countries Like France Are Always Places to Contrast America with, to Praise, and to Emulate

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President Obama held up France as the gold standard the U.S. workplace should emulate writes The Washington Examiner's Susan Cra...
Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Doctors live in fear that their careers will be ended if they advise against anal sodomy—which turns out to be pretty good medical advice

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Just in case there was any lingering doubt that Planned Parenthood doesn’t give a hoot about “women’s health”—or anyone’s health, for that...
Monday, December 28, 2015

French Foreign Minister Joins International Organizations, the FBI, and EU and U.S. Companies as Targets for German Spy Agency

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In more Fabius family news , Morandini reveals that France's foreign minister was spied upon while visiting Germany. Laurent Fabius...
Sunday, December 27, 2015

In France, Typos Make for Interesting History Lessons

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Where was this photo taken? asks the monthly magazine Geo in its regular multiple choice question game (you have to click on each phot...
Saturday, December 26, 2015

At the Apple Store's Genius Bar

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(From Maria Scrivan )
Friday, December 25, 2015

Why Santa Has Reindeer Instead of Cats

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From Maria Scrivan (Dziękuję dla Janina)
Thursday, December 24, 2015

A MIRACULOUS REUNION

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Now comes one of those feel-good stories you only read about on Facebook or in the Reader's Digest. In the 1980s or 1990s there was a...
Monday, December 21, 2015

New York Times Urged to Make a Crusade Against the Revolver

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What a continual source of trouble [the revolver] is. In 1901, a reader of the New York Times signing as Solon, Jr wrote a missive to the...
Sunday, December 20, 2015

10 British things you just don’t mess with

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The Daily Telegraph has a list of 10 British things you just don’t mess with . According to a recent report, American film director Geor...