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12.13.09Cyclists’ Special, 1955This short film is the perfect bucolic antidote to the cold, slush, and wind of the last week here in Minneapolis, December 2009. The weather forecast for next week looks to bring more of the same, at least in the first couple days; I'm hoping to squeeze a bike ride into the narrow window of Monday morning, but fear that the roads won't be clear again until Thursday. Though these cyclists on their solid old bikes with their stiff upper lips would probably not be dissuaded by a little ice. "There's a bit of rough weather about; we can ...
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03.19.09Yu Ming is anm dom (arís)I discovered this little film over a year ago, and thought I'd resurface it in the aftermath of St. Patrick's Day and my ongoing Michael Davitt project: follow Yu Ming, bored Chinese shopkeeper, on his quest to live and work in Ireland. Failte romh go dtí Connemara!
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10.23.08Roundup: 10/23/2008Peggy Noonan hasn't gone quite so far as Christopher Buckley, who has explicitly endorsed Barack Obama, but she has certainly aimed a withering criticism at the Palin half of the Republican ticket:You must address America in its entirety, not as a sliver or a series of slivers but as a full and whole entity, a great nation trying to hold together. When you don’t, when you play only to your little piece, you contribute to its fracturing. In the end the Palin candidacy is a symptom and expression of a new vulgarization in American politics. It’s no good, not for conservatism ...
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10.22.08Roundup, 10/21/2008Colin Powell endorses Obama and rejects Islamophobia:I'm also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say, and it is permitted to be said. Such things as 'Well you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim.' Well the correct answer is 'He is not a Muslim, he's a Christian, he's always been a Christian.' But the really right answer is 'What if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?' The answer is 'No. That's not America.' Is there something wrong with some 7-year old Muslim-American kid believing that he ...
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10.16.08Roundup, 10/16/2008Christopher Buckley endorses Obama:Obama has in him—I think, despite his sometimes airy-fairy “We are the people we have been waiting for” silly rhetoric—the potential to be a good, perhaps even great leader. He is, it seems clear enough, what the historical moment seems to be calling for. I'm not the only one to notice: according to Joseph Tecce, "Barack Obama had 67 blinks per minute during the Sept. 26 debate while McCain has 112 bpm." In the past, Tecce has predicted electoral outcomes based on blinks and other eye behaviors (more blinks = poorer showing at the polls), but this ...
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10.15.08Roundup, 10/15/2008The New Yorker endorses Barak Obama: The election of Obama—a man of mixed ethnicity, at once comfortable in the world and utterly representative of twenty-first-century America—would, at a stroke, reverse our country’s image abroad and refresh its spirit at home. His ascendance to the Presidency would be a symbolic culmination of the civil- and voting-rights acts of the nineteen-sixties and the century-long struggles for equality that preceded them. It could not help but say something encouraging, even exhilarating, about the country, about its dedication to tolerance and inclusiveness, about its fidelity, after all, to the values it proclaims in its textbooks. Robert ...
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02.19.08with malice toward none, with charity toward allAs Kitty Eisele reports on NPR, some "new" photographs of Lincoln's second inaugural address have emerged; they were there all along, but misfiled at the Library of Congress in a Ulysses Grant folder. The pictures show Lincoln delivering what may be his best speech, and also the African-American troops in Union uniforms who marched from the White House to the Capitol that damp day.
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01.09.08Yu Ming is ainm domAn bhfuil tusa ag labhairt liomsa?Simply fabulous. Go hiontach!Found at Blogtrotter
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