January, 2024 archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Diane Roberts serves up the story of the Civil War, Southern style.
No excerpt or paraphrase will do her piece justice. Just go read it.
Recommended Viewing 0
Imitation of Life, the 1934 version, not the 1950s remake.
We stumbled over it on TCM.
I was frankly taken aback by how frankly it dealt with racial issues in a time of segregation, when most films of that time pretended that they did not exist. Not to disparage the performances of the other members of the cast, particularly that of Rochelle Hudson, I found Claudine Colbert’s performance to be truly impressive.
We did recently watch It Happened One Night (which we also caught on TCM), for which Colbert won an Oscar, but I thought her acting in this film to be far superior to that Oscar-winning performance. It was somehow more real.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Asininity in Albuquerque:
Follow the link for the full saga of stupid, for, as we all know
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
The Rule of Flaw 0
Seth satirizes the capitulation of they-call-themselves conservatives to the consummate con artist.
A Notion of Immgrants 0
Methinks Atrios pretty much nails it.
Aside:
Today’s Republican Party understands buy-partisan. Indeed, it is a treasured Republican Family Value.
In contrast, it finds the concept of bipartisan repelling.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
The get fiendlier every day.
The agency said approximately 93% of the weapons were loaded, which TSA Administrator David Pekoske said was “concerning.”
Much more at the link.
None Dare Call It (Domestic) Terrorism . . . 0
. . . but, according to the Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini, it most certainly is.
Words Have Meanings . . . 0
. . . unless, of course, you live in Florida.
Russian Impulses 0
Thom talks with Heidi Siegmund Cuda about the mechanics of Russian interference in the 2016 election via the Disinformation Superhighway.
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
