Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The sexual innocence and comedic vulgarity in old movies reminds me that we’ve entirely lost the innocence and replaced it with crude sexual vulgarity. This is not a post about politics. I need a break from politics. Instead, it’s a post that follows on from a conversation I had via
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Looking at the people the Left designated as America’s enemies during WWII and the ones it designates today tells us a lot about the modern American Left. We tend to have a romanticized view of the past because the good stuff has legs, while the bad stuff drifts to the
Continue readingLast night, I caught a Busby Berkeley movie I’ve never seen before: 1933’s Footlight Parade, with a charismatic, manically energized Jimmy Cagney as the producer of “prologues,” live stage acts paired with “talking” pictures, all for 50 cents a show. Joan Blondell does a great job as his witty, put-upon
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