Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts
Sunday, August 2, 2026

For Endurance, Capture The Culture

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     The remarkable Haretina Kukuri has produced a stunner of an essay about the longevity of the world’s oldest continuously functioning i...
Sunday, December 7, 2025

Rootlessness

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     First, some thematic music: Now it's been 25 years or more I've roamed this land from shore to shore From Tyne to Tamar, S...
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Thursday, June 6, 2019

The Cultural Front In The Identity Wars

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     “Shucks,” Duke told them, “didn’t you know? The boss likes statues.”      “Really?” Jill answered. “I don’t see any sculpture around.”...
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Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Having Fun Watching Liberal Heads Explode!

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I saw this story about the ratings of the new Roseanne show. As it happened, I did watch the re-boot. My husband suggested it, and I agreed...
Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Savonarola and His Offspring

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Girolamo Savonarola was a Dominican friar during the Renaissance. He preached against church corruption, the Medicis, and secular art, amon...
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Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Mexico is No Longer a Country

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It is isolated islands of the Elite, with good medicine, government services, education, and cultural amenities, protected by well-armed an...
Sunday, September 17, 2017

Are You One of the Ikea Humans?

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Friday, April 28, 2017

I watched "The Handmaid's Tale," so you wouldn't have to

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They missed the mark by "this much..."   If an editor had substituted an Islamic "call-to-prayer" for ev...
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Thursday, April 27, 2017

Long March News

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     By now I’m sure all my Gentle Readers have learned about the cancellation of Ann Coulter’s appearance at Berkeley, which was scheduled...
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Thursday, December 29, 2016

“Passengers,” A Few More Words

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     ...and not about the movie.      Way back when – years when I was too short to reach the stove – the opinions of celebrities on socia...
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Rebellions And Devolutions

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     Fred Reed is characteristically blunt:      American culture now drinks deeply from the ghetto, and there is no turning this around e...
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Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Understandings: A Case In Point

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     “When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty, you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.” – G. K. Chesterton      A...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Quickies: These Puppies Have Staying Power And Teeth

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     You might not be interested as a matter of the entertainment you prefer...but you’ve got to be interested in the cultural associations:...
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Sunday, February 7, 2016

Machines: A Sad Wisdom

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     [In light of the recent acceleration of racial, ethnic, and “religious” tensions, I felt it appropriate to repost this piece which firs...
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Friday, January 29, 2016

Quickies: A Tirade About Competence

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     Time was, you could reliably assume that people are able to do what they claim they can do – in many cases, what they’d taken money to ...
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Saturday, October 24, 2015

Quickies: Controversializations Dept.

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     I’m not a big country-music fan, but I find myself drawn to the music, and not coincidentally to the personae, of a number of country ...
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Monday, October 19, 2015

Appetites

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     [ Before I begin: This rant is rantier than most. It will strike even some of my most faithful Gentle Readers as incomprehensible, eve...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Quickies: Cinema And “Gender Politics”

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     These days Hollywood treads the politically-correct line almost perfectly. It can make moviegoing a problematic thing for someone who w...
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Friday, June 19, 2015

And Now For Something Completely Different

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     The world of independently published fiction is exploding, which is a mixed blessing. The garbage still heavily outweighs the good stuf...
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Friday, May 22, 2015

Got #Gamergate? Excitement on another 1st Amendment frontier.

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I'm not a gamer. Not that that's a bad thing, mind you. I got involved in GamerGate last fall, I guess it was, from the integri...