Film
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At the Movies with Spencer Tracy
I love TCM. In the past week they’ve had some Spencer Tracy movies, and the two I watched were Judgment at Nurmeberg and Pat & Mike. There’s something about Tracy, a kind of magnetism that he has that has hardly anything to do with his lumpy looks. He’s a mensch. He’s the Walter Cronkite of
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Chis Hayes & “System Failure”
Chris Hayes of the Nation has a very nice piece that sums up our predicament. It's the kind of thing you can give somebody who just doesn't get it because its tone is irenic and its analogies apt. There are several excerptable grafs, but I'll limit myself to a few near the end: … one
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The Second Civil War 2
In February, I wrote a fantasy post in the form of a movie treatment about how a second Civil War might erupt. I was unaware until recently that HBO actually presented a movie with this title in 1997. I finally got around to watching it recently, and it's pretty bizarre, but interesting in the category
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Why Liberalism Can’t Get It Done III
In the gospels it says that it's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. This is not the platitudinous condemnation of economic injustice, but rather a shrewd observation about human psychology. The point is that those who have