The co-curator of the National Portrait Gallery, as heard on NPR’s Morning Edition, remembers the 1990s:
“It’s no longer the same game that it was 15, 20 years ago, where you simply
had to point out the homo and yell ‘Kill it!’ and the mob attacked.”
| Dick Tracy was originally a comic strip created by Chester Gould in 1931. Subsequently, a number of movies & television shows were made thereto. For your delectation, I have collected all 15 episodes of the original 1937 series by Republic Pictures, 4 episodes from the RKO Radio Pictures movies from 1945 to 1947, and 5 episodes of the American Broadcasting Company series from 1950 and 1951, in my new Dick Tracy page at the Sagacious Iconoclast. The three series are, I think, notably different. You may wish to try each one. |
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Mainstream Media Talkingheadville:
“The Egyptian people took to the streets to their claim their God-given right to freedom…”
Mairin Loewen, Saskatoon’s newest city councillor – and the company she keeps.
By special request, here’s a couple of lighthearted performances from American comedian Tim Hawkins.
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One of the CWB’s partners in this venture is Upper Lakes Group…
and that…
Adrian Measner, ex CEO of the CWB, became President and CEO of the Upper Lakes Grain Group (Soumat) in October 2007.
Update…. “NAME THOSE SHIPS!” Early contenders – “HMS Held” and “HMS Captive”.
…the actual implementation reflects somebody with the experience of two years in the Senate, who had never navigated outside of academia and Chicago tit-for-tat politics. So Mubarak is/is not a dictator, must leave now/yesterday/sometime soon as he serves as sort of a figurative leader/a critical transition player/a suspicious counter-revolutionary inasmuch as the U.S. must lay down conditions/advise only/respect Egyptian prerogatives, as private conversations with Egyptians are spilled to the press, Obama suggests the Cairo desire for freedom somehow channels his own support, and Biden, Clinton, and Obama contradict one another hourly.
Indeed: “Leon Panetta told us Mubarak was going. The perky newscasters kept telling us that Mubarak was going. President Obama (head left: utter a cliché; slowly pan right, emit another cliché) thought that too.” […] In a way, Hosni Mubarak is acting far more democratically then the protestors demanding his ouster. There is an election scheduled in Egypt for September. The democratic solution counsels patience: let the process unfold. Have the election. There is a difference, in short between what Plato called ochlocracy, i.e., mob rule, and democracy. It’s not at all clear that the cheerleaders for the Egyptian demonstrators have taken that distinction to heart.
Update: Mubarak has handed over power to the military and left Cairo. (The fine print).
Related: All is quiet in Iran. Speaking of Iran – “Interestingly, the Shah of Iran was also forced out on February 11. Let’s hope this isn’t an omen.”
Scopitones and Cineboxes were video jukeboxes of a sort (based loosely on WWII military technology, apparently) that were popular in the early 60s, mostly in European cafes. Tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips is a Scopitone – that’s what the short films were called – of wholesome and cheery French vocal ensemble Les Barclays performing Pour Ton Amour.
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CIA director ‘strong likelihood’ Mubarak will step down.
Yup. “The country’s in the very best of hands.”
Meanwhile, the number of Americans who believe their President is a muslim continues to rise.
It’s probably nothing. If the Sun affected the Earth’s temperature it would be hotter in the day time than at night. *
Another day, another victim of “aspirational guidelines”.
… not a pretzel:
In Canada, we have wanted to treat people as equals, not separates. So many of these stupid politically correct ideas date back to the days of Trudeau and are still strong today, the messengers being mostly academics and political left-of-centre media types and left-of-centre so-called progressive politicians, who sell us their politically-correct cargo on the basis of National unity. It’s time to call B.S. on that. It’s been one long tedious counterproductive cerebral gym class.
Previous at Cjunk … Canadian car barbeque season starts in about 20 years.
Update: From the Gods
A small band – of which I count myself among – have pushed for years for improving the quality of history instruction in the schools. Only a generation whose heads are filled with multicultural platitudes, and wholly ignorant of our painful battles toward unity, could allow this to happen. They naively imagine that Canada’s success is natural and to be taken for granted. The prosperity and peace of this nation are not the gifts of nature, they are the hard fought gains of those who came before us.
If you think the 1950s were a time of innocence and wholesome good fun, tonight’s video might just change your worldview forever. Yikes.
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