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The Bookworm Beat 12/24/14 — A few quick links for Christmas Eve
These links aren’t related to Christmas Eve. They are simply interesting things that came my way today, as I was getting my family ready for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. (To those new to the blog, although I’m Jewish, I was raised celebrating both Christmas and Hanukkah in entirely secular ways.
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Some of America’s ugliest antisemitism comes from young Hollywood Jews (language warning)
I recently found myself watching 2013’s “Comedy Central Roast of James Franco.” It was a deeply disturbing experience. The last time I watched a roast was sometime in the 1970s. My father loved those old Dean Martin celebrity roasts. They were intended to be PG, which meant that the insults were
Continue readingA belated Dancing With The Stars wrap-up (including some surprising facts)
Regular readers know that I’m quite fond of Dancing With The Stars. I like it on several levels. First, it’s what I call a “getting it right” show. The stars begin as neophytes, and through a lot of hard work, all get better and some get totally wonderful. Second, I love
Continue reading[VIDEO] “Animal House” seemed to have something to say in the wake of Obama’s amnesty “legislation”
We watched Animal House last night. Are there any among you who haven’t seen it? It’s as anarchically funny as ever, although parts didn’t wear well, both because of my years (I’m not a college student anymore and my humor’s matured a little bit) and because of the years I’ve spent
Continue readingDeep thoughts about a salacious book — Scotty Bowers’ “Full Service”
I’ve been working out on a stationary bike lately, because of ongoing sports injuries. I find this dull. I also find that I can alleviate the boredom by listening to books on my iPod. I’m working my way through some of the books that are available for free from my
Continue readingJane Fonda and the pathologies of the Left
In connection with my post my post about War, Disease, and Malthusian Leftists, Kathy from Kansas wrote something very interesting (and, when my comments are restored, you can see it for yourself). She said “I noticed a long time ago that most of the little foot-soldiers in groups such as
Continue readingHelp support an effort to undermine the hard-Left “comics” who dominate the MSM
I got an email from the Media Research Center that I’d like to pass on to you. I don’t usually pass these things on, but this harmonizes closely with what my sister-in-law and I have been saying for years: Conservatives need to entertained people into supporting conservative values, just as Leftists
Continue readingA delight from Dancing With The Stars
Those of you who don’t watch Dancing With The Stars might not know this, but one of the contestants is 17-year-old Sadie Robertson, of the Duck Dynasty family. She is an absolute delight as a dancer. Although she’s never danced before, she turns out to be a natural, from the tips of
Continue reading“Captain Phillips”: The most pro-Second Amendment movie I’ve ever seen
I finally got around to watching Captain Phillips. The move is ripped from headlines in 2009, when a Maersk captain got kidnapped by Somalia pirates, and was then rescued when Navy SEALS managed to kill the kidnappers in a sniper tour de force — perched on a rocking boat, the
Continue readingAmy Purdy does a perfect tango on Dancing With The Stars
I’ve gotten to the point at which I no longer see Amy Purdy’s prosthetic legs. Her dancing is so tight it’s amazing:
Continue readingThe way “Saving Mr. Banks” ought to have gone
I didn’t like Saving Mr. Banks, which I thought could more accurately have been called “Walt Disney’s Revenge.” It’s obvious that, by the early 1960s, P.L. Travers was a deeply disturbed woman. Contemporaneous records (including the tapes that Travers insisted be made of her talks with the Disney people) reveal
Continue readingThe Brendan Eich witch hunt makes HBO’s Silicon Valley must-see TV
One of the most awful defenses the usual suspects offered on behalf of Mozilla came (natch) from the New York Times, which opined that Mozilla is “special” and therefore cannot be held to ordinary corporate standards: Mozilla is not a normal company. It is an activist organization. Mozilla’s primary mission
Continue readingI totally agree with Ben Shapiro and Andrew Klavan about movies that pervert the original author’s intent
This is me, writing back in 2008 about Winona Ryder’s adaptation of Little Women: Two of my favorite 19th Century books have very pronounced moral lessons indeed, and they remain enormously popular despite (or maybe because of — but more of that later) those lessons. The first is Jane Austen’s
Continue readingJimmy Fallon scores a hit with (not against or about, but with) Sarah Palin
At a humor level . . . eh. At a “did you hear the New York-based Tonight Show audience roar its approval when Sarah Palin appeared?” level, it’s a home run: Hat tip: The Right Scoop
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