Or “The Music of What Didn’t Happen”: narrazione, novella, racconto see also addDerivatives() raccontare (v.) ↘ conversatore, conversatrice, narratore, narratrice ↗ narrazione, novella, racconto synonyms addSynonyms() raccontare contare, descrivere, dire, esporre, menzionare, ridire, riferire, riportare, ritrarre, rivelare, spifferare raccontare (v.) avvitarsi, contare, dire, narrare, nominare Alas, poor York: Last night I watched the new movie Recount, which premieres Sunday night on HBO. I think the plot might best be described

and Dahlia Lithwick’s ridiculous reasoning in comparing it with Guantanamo . . . when so many other, better comparisons might be drawn to other excesses of the Nanny State.  In other words, both are characterized by trumped-up stupidity.

She’s revered as a trail-blazing feminist and author Alice Walker touched the lives of a generation of women. A champion of women’s rights, she has always argued that motherhood is a form of servitude. But one woman didn’t buy in to Alice’s beliefs – her [hot] daughter, Rebecca, 38. Here the writer describes what it was like to grow up as the daughter of a cultural icon, and why she

At The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg briely awakens from his intellectual slumber to notice the tendency among Islamists toward national suicide. Goldberg notes this chiefly in regards to those, like him, “who have a hard time believing that even the most irrational Iranian leader would actually sacrifice Persian civilization on the altar of anti-Zionism.”  He would do well to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s reported past as an instructor for teeenage suicide squads during the Iran-Iraq

That is one tidbit to be gleaned from John McCain’s massive medical records dump: John McCain today released 1,173 pages of medical documents to prove that at the age of 71 – having survived war wounds, torture by the Vietnamese and three bouts of melanoma – he is fit to be president. The verdict on the Republican nominee-in-waiting is that he appears to be in good, if not perfect, health.

Philly Inquirer:  Lost in the excitement of Barack Obama’s coronation this week was an inconvenient fact of Tuesday’s results: Hillary Clinton netted approximately 150,000 votes and is now poised to finish the primary season as the popular-vote leader. In some quaint circles, presumably, these things still matter. Real Clear Politics keeps track of six versions of the popular-vote total. They are, in ascending order of inclusivity: (1) the popular vote

As Race Wanes, Talk of Clinton as No. 2 Grows Unflushable.

From Gawker:  Times editors are apparently tired of people saying mean things about Emily Gould and about their own decision to publish her meditation on blogging, because they’ve shut down the comments section attached to Gould’s magazine piece. Some 727 responses flooded in before the shutdown, even though the article won’t be physically published until the Sunday issue. Many called the former Gawker editor narcissistic, self indulgent and a bad

So writes Obama backer Chris Bowers at Open Left, but I am not entirely convinced. Bowers notes that McCain and the RNC have more money on hand, and are raising money at a faster rate, than Obama and the DNC.  Ed Morrissey noticed this also.  But I wonder whether that reflects the fact that McCain has been able to move into a general election posture ahead of Obama. Bowers notes

Best Week Ever has the video.  It sure sounds like flatulence, but given how much MSNBC normally sounds like flatulence, it is hard to be sure.  Oliver Stone may need to go Zapruder on the clip before we get to the bottom of it, so to speak.