"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
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Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
This picture of the Chicago White Sox' Ray Schalk and antlered friend in 1913 was returned by a search on the phrase around the horn at the Library of Congress' online Chicago Daily News morgue, and is neither here nor there. But here and there is where I picked up the following roundup of interesting links:
The Creepy Mitfords:"There was something about the photos of all of them that I just could NOT stop looking at. They were all so gorgeous - and so breezy-looking - in their wool suits, and two-toned shoes - and marcelled hair - and light eyes - but there is something a bit blank in some of their expressions, and that - combined with their intense beauty - always seemed a bit creepy to me. Add to that the general love affair with fascism and with Hitler, specifically, that some of the Mitford sisters maintained until they died - and you just get a picture of a fascinating whirlwind of creepiness." Sheila O'Malley
A picture's worth a thousand words: Yet even without being manipulated, a picture can lie. Newspaper editor Callimachus reflects on an iconic Vietnam War photo that didn't tell the whole story.
Sitting Pretty:"I didn't want to be told that what I really wanted—a flushing toilet that I could sit down on—was irresponsible, amoral, close-minded." What's remarkable is that, at the end of the day, she still plans to marry her insufferably earnest compost-fixated fiancé. (Via Herald)
Rise of the Neo-Culpas:"It is imperative that we place Iraq into historical perspective, and realize that the ever-present Vietnam template is utterly wrong. Understanding Iraq, and likely most of the conflicts we will find ourselves in for the next 20 years, requires that we employ the right model: the Philippine Insurrection and Moro wars of 1898 to 1913." University of Dayton historian Lawrence Schweikart
Happy Birthday, PJ O'Rourke:"Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening." * "The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don't know." * "Bachelors know all about parties. In fact, a good bachelor is a living, breathing party all by himself. At least that is what my girlfriend said when she found the gin bottles under the couch. I believe her exact words were, 'You're a disgusting, drunken mess.' And that's a good description of a party, if it's done right." #
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