Ave atque vale
Saturday, 13 March 2010
Had David Ahenakew died eight years ago, he would have been remembered as just another affirmative-action Order of Canada mediocrity garlanded with all the baubles of the state while lining his pockets with the spoils of institutionalized ethnic grievance. Instead, he'll be remembered as the affirmative-action Order of Canada mediocrity who jumped the tracks,...
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Steyn on Stage and Screen
Saturday, 13 March 2010
By popular demand, SteynOnline is launching a weekend movie column, picking out a pertinent picture or two from the last century or thereabouts that you might prefer to a trip to the multiplex. Just ahead of St Patrick's Day, here's Liam Neeson in the 1996 biopic of the Irish nationalist...
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Steyn’s Song of the Week
Sunday, 07 March 2010
Song of the Week #160
by Con Conrad and Herb Magidson
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, toward the climax of a complicated plot, standing nonchalantly on a balcony in the unlikely English seaside resort of "Brightbourne" overlooking a spectacular art deco terrace of impossibly glamorous dancers:
FRED: Not a bad tune. What is it?...
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Steyn on People
Tuesday, 02 March 2010
Jim Geraghty drew attention to this poll over in his fiefdom, and it's certainly worth a look:
CNN Poll: Anti-Incumbent Fever At Record High
Wasn't that the headline in the Oct. 24, 1917 edition of the Winter Palace Court Circular? Despite CNN's best efforts to present this as bad news for incumbents...
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Steyn on Culture
Tuesday, 02 March 2010
Whenever I write about “climate change,” a week or two later there’s a flurry of letters whose general line is: la-la-la can’t hear you. Dan Gajewski of Ottawa provided a typical example in our Dec. 28 issue. I’d written about the East Anglia Climatic Research Unit’s efforts to “hide the...
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Steyn on Books
Tuesday, 02 March 2010
Dominick Dunne died last August and with uncharacteristically bad timing—a day after Ted Kennedy. According to the New York Times, the family wanted to delay announcing his death until the Teddy ululations blew over. But, with the media diving headlong into a vat of mawkish drivel about “The Last Lion”...
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