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POPS Obamlet What any prosecutor or defense attorney will tell you about jury deliberations … how long they’re out doesn’t necessarily tell you anything. It could mean they are trying really hard to convince themselves that abandonment will work … and to find a way to convince America and the world that an easy out is the considered, sensible thing to do. Or it could be that they know what they need to do, they are just afraid to do it. Afraid of the consequences of angering their anti-war lefty base, afraid of remaining committed to a war with a horizon past 2010 and 2012. But that’s about as charitable and optimistic a view as is possible, and assumes they actually want to find a way to do the right thing. Unfortunately, there has been little to indicate that is what they are interested in doing. What makes this less like jury deliberations and more like a Shakespearean tragedy, though, is that every now and then, a major player sticks his head out to shout something.
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POPSA Precious Gift for Lovers of Literature
The Paris Review Interview Archive "Since 1953, when the first issue of the magazine appeared with an interview of E. M. Forster, our Q&A encounters with the great writers of our times have come to be recognized as a sort of literary genre unto themselves: the Paris Review interview. More than fifty years—and more than three hundred interviews—later, the archive continues to grow with each new issue of the magazine. In November 2006, the first volume of a four-book set of The Paris Review Interviews was celebrated by reviewers across the English-speaking world. In tandem with this publishing project, we offer here online a complete index of every interview ever published, searchable by author and by date—as well as a substantial sampling of the archive’s finest interviews, posted in their entirety. Taken together, these conversations with novelists, poets, playwrights, essayists, biographers, journalists, and critics constitute what Salman Rushdie calls “the finest available inqui
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POPSBarack Obama, Fabian Socialist He's telling the truth when he says that he doesn't agree with Bill Ayers' violent bombing tactics, but it's a tactical disagreement. Why use dynamite when mass media and community organizing work so much better? Who needs Molotov when you've got Saul Alinski? So here is the playbook: The left will identify, freeze, personalize and polarize an industry, probably health care. It will attempt to nationalize one-fifth of the U.S. economy through legislative action. They will focus, as Lenin did, on the "commanding heights" of the economy, not the little guy. As Obama said, "the smallest" businesses will be exempt from fines for not "doing the right thing" in offering employer-based health care coverage. Health will not be nationalized in one fell swoop. Instead, a parallel system will be created, funded by surcharges on business payroll, which will be superior to many private plans.
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POPSMysterynet.com: Mystery Time Line I was doing a search on a topic that had the keyword book in it and mysterynet.com came up... I decided to take a look and this is a great site for online mysteries and I have a tendency to look at classic fiction and especially timelines of fictional occurrences.
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POPSPersonal Failings and the Public Conscience
Arthur Miller was complex, contradictory, fallible, and imperfect, in other words, human to the highest degree. We shouldn't forget that somewhere in the byzantine labyrinth of the human psyche, there is the curious fact that our public conscience and whatever it is that guides our private actions seem to develop completely independently. There are those who scrupulously live their personal lives, but nevertheless are responsible for some of the worst oppression, brutality and crimes against humanity. On the other hand, we have what Morris Dickstein describes here as the "killers" artists and public figures who's keen outward humanism went unmatched in private life. That humans have the capacity for both is far more marvelous to me than if we were simply 1-dimensional distillations of our most obvious traits. I'd imagine a man of constant moral perfection would live a very lonely and tormented life. He would be unable to take part in human society.
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POPSAnna Nicole Smith: She Embodied America... Some have condemned her as a "gold digger," but she wanted what you are supposed to want--money--and she worked industriously with what she had. And one must note that in America--where most adult relations have been recast as transactions--breast enhancement is the perfect meeting of commerce and sex: a means to lay bare the frankness of your opening gambit, and to make plain that it invites a response. What you see is what you get; now let me see how you propose to get it.
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