Tuesday, October 24, 2006
A Taste of Balsom’s Quality (04:27 PM) - Early this morning I commended to you Alison Balsom, the rising British trumpeter, and her new album ‘Caprice.’ It occured to me (or, rather, to a few of you) that I ought to include an audio clip from that disc….
David Zucker Strikes Again (02:28 PM) - “The Taxman” is hilarious….
Rick Santorum’s New Security Spot (11:31 AM) - Santorum is running a television spot focusing on homeland security, noting that his opponent, Bob Casey, voted against missile defense and other security technologies. It seems to me radically uncertain if this sort of a tack will work, but at…
UK Terrorism Chiefs: Britain Now Primary al Qaeda Target (11:08 AM) - The British understand the Islamic terrorist threat, and their state is among only a handful—America and Australia are certainly two others—capable of absorbing a terrorist attack without becoming truly terrorized. Moreover, the Brits have resolved proactively to fight Islamic terrorism….
Things to Look Forward To Under Speaker Pelosi (10:41 AM) - Representative Pelosi seems to have absolutely nothing going for her—not ringing elocution nor strength of will nor mental acuity nor warmth nor creativity—except for her willingness to spout nonsensical new-agisms that sound like they come from rejected Oprah scripts. To…
New York Times Managing Editor to Teach Yale Seminar on Journalism (10:35 AM) - The Yale Daily News reports that Jill Abramsom, the Times managing editor and author of “Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas,” is coming to New Haven to teach a seminar course on journalism. I wonder if she’ll go next…
A Man for all Seasons (09:50 AM) - Dafydd ab-Hugh is less than wooed by Barack Obama’s life story….
The Netroots Continue Connecticut Crusade, General Annoyingness (09:33 AM) - “The Netroots”—a million or so readers of far-left blogs who have been made to feel empowered by said blogs—caused the right gentlemen from Connecticut, Joe Lieberman, to lose his party’s nomination for re-election to the United States Senate. Joe Lieberman…
The National Security Case for a Gas Tax (08:44 AM) - TigerHawk makes it, saying, “If the United States finally signalled world oil markets that it was willing to tax itself significantly to cut its petroleum consumption, would that let some of the air out of the price in and of…
You Are About to Suddenly Dig the Trumpet (12:59 AM) - If you fall into the category of Most of Humanity, then you probably don’t have a trumpet recital album in your compact disc collection. That is about to change, courtesy of a very pretty, very talented young classical trumpeter…