Topical Take
Thursday, 11 September 2008
Seven years is a long time in a present-tense culture, and attitudes to the war - if, indeed, it is still a war to most people - evolved pretty quickly. Here's what I wrote on the third anniversary, marked by the Beslan massacre, in The Spectator, September 11th 2004:
“He is sedated,”...
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One Year Ago
Thursday, 02 October 2008
Oh, it's a long, long while from September to September. This year, the anniversary falls, for the first time, on a Tuesday morning, and perhaps some or other cable network will re-present the events in real time — the first vague breaking news in an otherwise routine morning show, the...
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Request of the Week
Thursday, 02 October 2008
Dear Mark,
Can you please republish some of the funniest columns from the late 1990s when Clinton sex jokes were all the rage and you once wrote about Monica’s dress in the witness protection program?
Best wishes,
Tom Hernandez
MARK SAYS: Well, I think we reprised the Monica's dress column...
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Five Years Ago
Thursday, 02 October 2008
This seems vaguely appropriate the weekend before the big court date in British Columbia - the legal travails of the happy homemaker, from The Wall Street Journal half a decade ago:
Of all the many thousands of expert commentators on the Martha Stewart indictment, I believe I'm the only one...
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Seasons of Steyn
Thursday, 02 October 2008
A song for the season
by Julia Ward Howe and William Steffe
Memorial Day is here – or Decoration Day, if you’re a real old-timer, a day for decorating the graves of the Civil War dead. The songs many of those soldiers marched to are still known today – “The Yellow...
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Ten Years Ago
Thursday, 02 October 2008
Sinatra Song of the Day
by John Kander and Fred Ebb
All this week we've been marking the tenth anniversary of Frank Sinatra's death by celebrating not only Sinatra the singer but also the Sinatra songbook, beginning on Monday with "It Was A Very Good Year", continuing on Tuesday with "I'll...
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