Posted in Culture/Trends, Media, Patriotism, Politics, Top, tagged Depression, FDR, Frank Capra, Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart, Jon Stewart, Kevin Williamson, Michael Kazin, New Deal, patriotism, Scream, Stephen Colbert on February 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In the mid-90s, a mini-comeback of slasher films was ignited when Kevin Williamson wrote the screenplay for Scream. Rather than taking credit for reviving the genre, Williamson always insisted that he had actually driven the final nail in the coffin by exposing all of its tricks. See, we were the Blockbuster Generation, too [...]
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Crazy making days, an Iowa kind of night. What a country.
It’s an unusual thing to think about today, but I have in my head the infamous Obama “bitterness” comment. I was one of the people critical of him when he said it, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t ‘get’ what he meant.
I’d add [...]
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Posted in 2008 General Election, History, Patriotism, Politics, tagged Al Gore, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Democratic Convention, Eugene Robinson, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, John Legend, John McCain, Mark Warner, Michelle Obama, Norah O'Donnell, Pat Buchanan, Rachel Maddow, Sarah Palin, Sheryl Crow, Stevie Wonder, Ted Kennedy, Will.i.am on August 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s always difficult to measure history in real time. It usually devolves into either hyperbole over the moment or a sort of unnecessary conservatism – the automatic need to tamp down any enthusiasm and figuratively pass the buck to “historical perspective.” Still, under any measure, I can’t see how the last seven days [...]
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Posted in History, Patriotism, Politics, Top, tagged Adlai Stevenson, America, Barack Obama, Cal Ripken, change, Elvis, FDR, Helen Thomas, Horace Greeley, Johnny Carson, Karl Marx, New Years Eve, revolution, Wild Bill Hagy on July 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been fiddling with this thought all month, and actually drafted most of this before the 4th of July – that seeming an appropriate date for overall thoughts on the past and future of the country. But I don’t know… it never came together. The 4th in reality was sort of a forced [...]
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Posted in 2008 Primary, Patriotism, Politics, Top, tagged America, Barack Obama, conspiracy theories, dissent, patriotism, Paul Wellstone on March 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Al Franken once wrote that conservatives love America the way a six year old loves his mother. Mommy is perfect, don’t be mean to mommy, etc… Liberals, according to Franken, have a grown-up love for America — the kind that recognizes faults and works to improve the nation out of love.
This seems to be the [...]
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Everyone loves a good Churchill quote, and for a lot of people I know, none can live up to the famous: “If you’re not a liberal at age 20, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative at age 40, you have no head.” Sure, whether or not he actually ever said [...]
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