Pete Lit (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Jeff Buckley: Lover, You Should've Come Over I've obsessed over quite a few Jeff Buckley songs from Grace - "Last Goodbye" (which miraculously had a lot of radio airplay in the mid 1990s), his jaw-dropping cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah",...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
The Baltimore Sun praised it as "Eloquent . . . immensely readable...the saga of the victory of capitalism over the brutal and irrational fraud that was state socialism." The Washington Times called it a "great narrative of democratic survival and democratic victory." Publishers Weekly crowed "Buckley's lucid account celebrates the tenacity of the human spirit and the will to achieve freedom." Even...
Out in Hollywood (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
I'm sure that most of the TV critics here at the Beverly Hilton for the last day of the summer press tour could care less about what's happening with the characters on "Lipstick Jungle" in the new season. I however,...
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
That accent? C'mon. A reader vents: Your post on your colleague Megan lamenting the end of the American "upper class" accent was interesting. I would venture to guess that this accent disappeared because it was an affectation more than a...
georgiasam (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
William Buckley, transported convict, escaped and lived in the bush among the Wathaurung people of Western Victoria (Australia) for thirty-two years. On re-entering white society at the splendidly named Indented Head he overcame by now severe difficulties with the English language to dictate an account of his adventures to a missionary, George Langthorne. Read more here . From the notes to The Life...
Blue Sage Views (Free subscription) | yesterday
State Senator Bill Raggio (R-Washoe) and Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley (D-Clark) are facing their last campaigns to retain their respective positions in the Nevada legislature. According to the Nevada Supreme Court ruling several other public servants have already exceeded their term limits. [ NV Appeal ] Evidently, term limits do have some meaning for this Court, as opposed to residency requirements,...
Superhero Hype (Free subscription) | yesterday
Friday at Comic-Con International kicked off with a panel in one of the smaller halls that combined the different divisions of Marvel with Kevin Feige on board for Marvel Studios, Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada and Dan Buckley for Marvel Publishing and Craig Kyle there for Marvel Animation. After a couple of slides of all of Marvel's upcoming projects and events (all which have been announced), they went...
Some People Are On The Pitch (Free subscription) | yesterday
The revolving door of management 9 Managers Who Were Sacked Shortly After The Start Of The Season 1. Neil McDonald (Carlisle United, 2007) - 2 days 2. Paul Sturrock (Southampton, 2004) - 9 days 3. Alan Buckley (Grimsby Town, 2000) - 10 days 4. Alan Ball (Manchester City, 2000) - 12 days 5. Kerry Dixon (Doncaster Rovers, 1997) - 12 days 6. Peter Reid (Manchester City, 1993) - 12 days 7. Don Mackay (Blackburn...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
A few of these old Buckley classics remain. Order here.
INSTAPUTZ (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Why is David Brooks being so mysterious ? For years, says New York Times columnist David Brooks, the model for conservatives who developed a passion for writing (or vice-versa) was not a reporter but a commentator: National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr. Besides being attracted to his elegant language and compelling arguments, up-and-coming conservatives saw something else in Buckley: job stability....
The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008 | Politics
Dana Milbank at the WaPo delivers a stunning and accurate smackdown to the misguided, misleading and unhinged Elaine Donnelly of The Center for Military Readiness, who testified at yesterday's House Armed Services personnel subcommittee hearing on the law known as Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Donnelly treated the panel to an extraordinary exhibition of rage. She warned of "transgenders in the military ."...
The Flypaper Theory (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
First I see this . And for many reasons it makes me giggle. Buckley WAKE UP -- THEY HAVE GONE MAD. Just lookin ' around the internet , seein ' what the wingnuts are up to... In the immortal words of Curly, " Ngggnn yahh !" Seems the Obama European Tour has brought out the best in Dr. Melissa Clouthier , who defensively explains: This is about artistic tone. The profile view. The serious expression....
Digitization 101 (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The slides for this presentation - JPEG2000 for Archives and Libraries - are online . Both Dr. Robert Buckley and Justin Dávila delivered information in this session. It's easy to flip through the slides, so I'll not excerpt anything here. Be sure to look at the definitions of JPEG2000. Technorati tag: JPEG2000
The Corner (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
This big (469 pages), beautiful 1988 hardcover collection - edited by Bill Buckley and Charles Kesler - is as important now as when it was first published. Brimming with seminal essays on conservatism, freedom, tradition, government, spirituality, and much more, and featuring contributions by giants such as Frank Meyer, Harry Jaffa, Milton Friedman, Russell Kirk, Friedrich Hayek, Leo Strauss, James...
The Bellman (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
I've been a fan of D.R. Tucker's work since he took over Right Angle. It's like reading William F. Buckley as edited by The Onion as related by a 12-year old. I often am amazed that he can display such density in such density . But now, Tucker may have revealed his secret sauce: It’s only been a week or so since Tony Snow’s passing, and I can still hear him speaking to me. Bonus quote from this column:...
