Don’t know if you’ve been following the debate over Mark Levin: I’ve been reading you for more than 5 years, and I don’t recall you ever asking your readers why they hate America, or saying their spouses should off themselves. Maybe I wasn’t reading that week. Nevertheless, all those who were so concerned about the state of your soul because of the harsh words you have deployed against torture advocates have been largely absent. You’d think that concern for the... Read more
Don’t know if you’ve been following the debate over Mark Levin: I’ve been reading you for more than 5 years, and I don’t recall you ever asking your readers why they hate America, or saying their spouses should off themselves. Maybe I wasn’t reading that week. Nevertheless, all those who were so concerned about the state of your soul because of the harsh words you have deployed against torture advocates have been largely absent. You’d think that concern for the... Read more
…lives out his thralldom in perfectly predictable (to Chestertonians) way. A reader writes: Just to demonstrate exactly how clever our reporters are. NY Times economics reporter hasn’t paid his mortgage in eight months and iswaiting for them to foreclose. It was a liar’s loan and he and his wife didn’texactly control their spending. Megan McArdle discovered that he left something out — of the book even: hiswife has filed for bankruptcy, more than once — once while married to him.... Read more
…lives out his thralldom in perfectly predictable (to Chestertonians) way. A reader writes: Just to demonstrate exactly how clever our reporters are. NY Times economics reporter hasn’t paid his mortgage in eight months and iswaiting for them to foreclose. It was a liar’s loan and he and his wife didn’texactly control their spending. Megan McArdle discovered that he left something out — of the book even: hiswife has filed for bankruptcy, more than once — once while married to him.... Read more
The Eldest Son writes: I just stumbled across something I thought you all might enjoy. It’s an online gallery of cover illustrations for the War of the Worlds! It ranges from great through so-awful-it’s-hilarious and on into the I-am-astoundingly-unable-to-make-sense-of-what-my-eyes-are-experiencing spectrum. You can even view the covers categorically, using such useful sorting criteria as “Screaming Humans Running Towards You,” “Humans Grabbed by Tentacles,” “Tripods Blasting the HMS Thunderchild,” and “Huh??” My personal favorite is this illustration for a spanish-language children’s edition... Read more
The Eldest Son writes: I just stumbled across something I thought you all might enjoy. It’s an online gallery of cover illustrations for the War of the Worlds! It ranges from great through so-awful-it’s-hilarious and on into the I-am-astoundingly-unable-to-make-sense-of-what-my-eyes-are-experiencing spectrum. You can even view the covers categorically, using such useful sorting criteria as “Screaming Humans Running Towards You,” “Humans Grabbed by Tentacles,” “Tripods Blasting the HMS Thunderchild,” and “Huh??” My personal favorite is this illustration for a spanish-language children’s edition... Read more
One of the most amazing feats of the present age has been the way in which the fabulously wealthy convinced ordinary people that they care about us and desire neither to exploit or (when they have a mind to) kill or sterilize us. It’s an article of post-modern faith utterly without foundation and, indeed, contradicted by a wealth of fact. But we go on believing it anyway, encouraged by both George Soros and Rush Limbaugh to believe that The Successful... Read more
One of the most amazing feats of the present age has been the way in which the fabulously wealthy convinced ordinary people that they care about us and desire neither to exploit or (when they have a mind to) kill or sterilize us. It’s an article of post-modern faith utterly without foundation and, indeed, contradicted by a wealth of fact. But we go on believing it anyway, encouraged by both George Soros and Rush Limbaugh to believe that The Successful... Read more
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