February, 2022 archive
Licensed to Kill 0
Thom takes a critical look at “stand your ground” laws.
Roots 0
At The American Scholar, an American descendant of Ukrainian immigrants who is still in touch with her family in Ukraine looks eastward. A bit of what she has to say:
In that time, I have seen the country change in ways big and small. In the past five years in particular, Ukraine seems to have blossomed—while the Russian occupation of the Donbas ground on in the east, it did so relatively quietly, and Kyiv thrummed with youth, style, and energy. The country’s filmmakers have won major prizes at Sundance; Ukrainian literature is increasingly translated into other languages. I have watched my cousins’ children grow up in a Ukraine that is resolutely independent and cosmopolitan; in a departure from previous post-Soviet cohorts, their opportunities seemed to be growing, not shrinking.
Plus ca Change 0
Brian Greenspun, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun, draws a lesson from history. Here’s a bit of what he has to say; follow the link for the rest.
The irony of the 1938 Munich Agreement should not be lost today as we think about the Munich Security Conference held last weekend to figure out how to stop Putin from pursuing his megalomaniacal dream of putting the Soviet Union back together again — starting with Ukraine.
The players are a little different in 2022 but the prize is the same.
When Good Enough Is Good Enough 0
Stuart Brotman points explains how the perfect is the enemy of the good. Here’s a bit; follow the link for the evidence.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The edit:
Give me your tired, your poor,.
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Meet one of the (many) editors.
“It’s Not Easy Being Green” 0
A little while ago, Tucker Carlson aired his sorrow that Mars has changed the look if the green M&M in its commercials to be “less sexy.”
A former green M&M (that is, a woman who performed as a green M&M in on-street ad campaigns) explains why she favors the change. A snippet:
It would not shock me if Carlson is out on 42nd Street right now pawing some former coworker of mine trying to get one last grope in before it’s too late.
“Let Them Eat Cake” 0
The Orlando Sentinel’s Scott Maxwell excoriates a proposed law designed to perpetuate poor pay and poverty in Florida.
