Sunday, August 06, 2006
The Middle East Needs Pizza (07:16 PM) - Per a post of this morning, Iran has banned the use of the word “pizza,” as an unacceptable American influence. Well, the Middle East needs pizza. At PizzaIDF.org, you can purchase a pizza pie for Israeli soldiers or their families….
Is This a Wedge Which I See Before Me? (06:17 PM) - Paul Mirengoff doesn’t find E.J. Dionne’s annual pronouncement of the death of the Republican Party to be any more convincing than usual….
Frenchman Proposes Downsizing English; Re-Naming “Globish” (10:17 AM) - Since the worldly use of this fine English language is on an unceasing rise—one billion speakers and counting—there seem to be two (well, three) camps. The first is unassertive and allows each person to use his tongue of choice. Call…
Reuters’ Questionable Editing Practices (09:47 AM) - One thing accomplished by the rise of Internet-based political commentary is the dramatic and sudden increase in feet/fire proximity for wire services: Those happy few companies which fetch the news, and bottle it at the source. Where some journos are…
Sunday Morning Sinatra - “Ol’ Man River” (06:29 AM) - In 1946 Richard Whorf directed a film called Till the Clouds Roll By, a musical biopic of the great American popular composer Jerome Kern, who was among the founders of the Broadway musical idiom, and who added more than seven…