Good stuff in Jay Nordlinger’s latest NRO “Impromptus” column — including this undressing (sorry if the image scars you; me, I’m mildly excited by it) of the Washington Post’s Mary McGrory: Mary McGrory, longtime columnist for the Washington Post, ended her recent column this way: ‘George Bush would rather keep Cubans hungry than take any chances for himself and his brother with the folks who thought Elian Gonzalez would be
May 17, 2002
May 17, 2002
Prop Up Video
“Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created the first realistic videos of people saying things they never said — a scientific leap that raises unsettling questions about falsifying the moving image,” The Boston Globe reports. “In one demonstration, the researchers taped a woman speaking into a camera, and then reprocessed the footage into a new video that showed her speaking entirely new sentences, and even mouthing words to
May 17, 2002
Fish ‘n’ Dips
From Reuters: “Soccer-mad criminals have been turning themselves in to British police stations in the hope of completing a short jail sentence in time to watch the World Cup, British newspapers reported on Friday. In ‘Operation Red Card’, police in Hertfordshire, north of London, sent a simple message to defendants who have been failing to turn up in court: surrender now or spend the World Cup in a police cell
May 17, 2002
Fish ‘n’ Dips
From Reuters: “Soccer-mad criminals have been turning themselves in to British police stations in the hope of completing a short jail sentence in time to watch the World Cup, British newspapers reported on Friday. In ‘Operation Red Card’, police in Hertfordshire, north of London, sent a simple message to defendants who have been failing to turn up in court: surrender now or spend the World Cup in a police cell
May 17, 2002
Blowback
If there’s a problem with college kids today, it’s this: they have no idea who fought in the Spanish-American War, but they can write entire columns on the techniques and logistics of fellatio. For Yale Dailynews, no less! …Of course, knowing a lot about the Spanish-American War probably won’t earn you a night out at TGIF Fridays and a movie… Nevermind.