First Looks category archive

From the Youtube page:

US President Donald Trump wants to build a triumphal arch across from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, the latest in his efforts to make over the capital city in his style. The so-called Arc de Trump would commemorate the country’s 250th anniversary next year and is reportedly being privately funded by Trump’s supporters. His other second-term developments include a gilded makeover for the White House, paving over the Rose Garden and constructing a $250m ballroom, as well as the clearing of homeless encampments throughout the capital.

Carrotblanca.

It’s the third cartoon in season 1, episode 3, of the Looney Tunes series I’m watching on Tubitv.com. The episode ie linked above (note that, when the show leaves Tubi, the link will be broken).

It’s a take-off on Casablanca, which I consider to be the finest American movie ever made, and it’s an absolute hoot.

Veteran newspaper editor Martin Baron is not sanguine at the state of dis coarse discourse. Here’s a tiny bit from his article:

And perhaps most concerning to me is that we now live in a time when people are unable or unwilling to distinguish between what is true and what is false. It is only natural — and, in a democracy, expected — that we will disagree about which policies are best. Yet today we cannot agree on how to determine a fact. All of the elements we have historically relied upon to establish facts — education, expertise, experience and, above all, evidence — have been denigrated, dismissed and denied.

Off to drink liberally.

I’ve deactivated the Blue Delaware RSS feed over there ——> on the sidebar, as the site seems to be experiencing issues and the feed is currently not working.

Places to go.

Via Daily Kos.

The Marsh Family sings about Donald Trump’s visit to the U. K.

Florida Men.

Off to drink liberally.

Ticket trickery.

One more time, “social” media isn’t.

Family matters, and it does.

Off to drink liberally.

Anti-intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter.

I have had a copy of it on my bookshelf for (mumble) years. If anything, it’s more relevant now than when he wrote it.

Gilligan’s Island, Season Three, Episode Four, “The Producer.”

The whole Gilligan’s Island series is a lot of fun, silly for the sake of silly, but that episode is an absolute hoot. Plus, it includes one of my favorite pieces of music, the “Habanera” from Bizet’s Carmen, one of my favorite operas, worked into a pastiche of Hamlet.

I watched it on Tubi, but you can likely find it on other streaming services.

At the Washington Monthly, Roger Kerson makes a strong case that “Musk” rhymes with “Ford.”

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*Mark Twain.