Monthly Archives: September 2015

Actors & patriotism

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America is a weird place. In America it’s one generation from liberals like Henry Fonda joining up to serve the country in war–like everyone else, at one in heart & mind with their conservative friends, like Jimmy Stewart–to liberals like Jane Fonda running off to Vietnam to help out some of the most atrocious murderers available at the time with the hot blonde part of PR. The old man did not chastise his daughter publicly, so you can see how great the change was & I’m sure you all have thoughts on what’s happened–I’d like to talk about it, but it does not entirely seem proper right now. Maybe this weekend?

At any rate, I would not presume to speak to you about 9/11. I take it seriously, but it is … Continue reading →

Roman holiday

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Hello, folks–here’s the rather more recent stuff I’ve been writing on movies for Ricochet. I do not feel I have a very good reason for picking this movie, however: It is neither too funny nor too romantic. It has about it the air of a fairy tale, but this time the princess wants to be Cinderella for a day… A princess who has never seen people wishes to escape from her vaguely feudal, vaguely futuristic duties. I suppose this could be an education for all the Disney characters turned into rather shocking young people by the celebrity industry. You can tell, I mean to be rather contrarian. I don’t want to spoil anyone’s fun, just to bring out what people tend to overlook.

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When Things Don’t Make Sense

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When things don’t make sense, we make them make sense by supplying additional information which is either true or false, but which fills the gap.  I think a longer-term trend than simple disgust with the GOP, and to some extent with the DNC as the Clinton machine blows a rod, is the decay of an American Republic as seen in your Civics textbook.

We’ve always been plagued by the Art Bell / Alex Jones kooker crowd and their Libertarian Party locust. Call these people the early adopters, ready to fly away from reason (even while laying exclusive claim to “Reason”, a sign of derangement) at too little provocation. Then there are those who will never depart the pattern, but will drive right into a wall because there is … Continue reading →