H.D. Miller of Travelling Shoes offers his “Unified Field Theory of Entertainment,” under which theory both French cinema (rightfully) and the European fascination with soccer (blessedly) take well-deserved beatings from their American entertainment counterparts: One of the best examples of the superiority of American cinematic art is that the French think of Gerard Depardieu as a romantic lead, while at best, we consider him (big-nosed, lumpy, and pockmarked) a suitable

H.D. Miller of Travelling Shoes offers his “Unified Field Theory of Entertainment,” under which theory both French cinema (rightfully) and the European fascination with soccer (blessedly) take well-deserved beatings from their American entertainment counterparts: One of the best examples of the superiority of American cinematic art is that the French think of Gerard Depardieu as a romantic lead, while at best, we consider him (big-nosed, lumpy, and pockmarked) a suitable

Writing for The American Prowler, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. takes on those he calls “Gaudy Grandstanders“: Americans’ antipathy to the study of history is a boon for pundits and politicians, especially when they feel the urge to declaim on urgent matters. Today, in Washington, our pundits and pols, expounding on September 11 and the concomitant ‘intelligence breakdown’ in vacua, can do so with the greatest freedom of expression imaginable. History

From today’s Jerusalem Post: “Don Quixote diplomacy“: Today the faces stare out at us from our front page and ask: What are you waiting for? How many more of us must die? How long will you postpone the inevitable? To Yossi Beilin, the Arab world, Europe, and the US State Department, the inevitable is the hurried formation of a Palestinian state more or less along the 1967 boundaries, a notion

From today’s Jerusalem Post: “Don Quixote diplomacy“: Today the faces stare out at us from our front page and ask: What are you waiting for? How many more of us must die? How long will you postpone the inevitable? To Yossi Beilin, the Arab world, Europe, and the US State Department, the inevitable is the hurried formation of a Palestinian state more or less along the 1967 boundaries, a notion

“The nation’s immigrant population grew by more than 11 million people in the 1990s, the highest increase in history, according to Census 2000 data released Tuesday,” the Houston Chronicle reports. […]Some economists say a growing immigrant population provides a growing labor market to offset the aging native-born population. But a number of political groups have formed in recent years under the belief that a growing immigrant population will lead to

15 Hurt in Cheese Roll. Somewhere in Europe. Nuff said.

“NATO officials on both sides of the Atlantic are concerned about the growing gap between U.S. military might and outdated, underfunded European forces, saying it could undermine future alliance missions,” the Waco Tribune reports. The aim is to break away from NATO’s role of defending Europe against a now nonexistent Soviet threat and to give the alliance the means to project power to far-flung regions harboring terrorists that threaten allied

“NATO officials on both sides of the Atlantic are concerned about the growing gap between U.S. military might and outdated, underfunded European forces, saying it could undermine future alliance missions,” the Waco Tribune reports. The aim is to break away from NATO’s role of defending Europe against a now nonexistent Soviet threat and to give the alliance the means to project power to far-flung regions harboring terrorists that threaten allied

They’re latex-skinned, they vibrate, they’re pressure sensitive… And you put ’em in up against your ear. My kinda party.