Greetings and welcome to the pre-Passover edition of Laura's Links. It has been a busy week for me and for the Jewish people. On a macro level, there has been a lot of "resistance" activity in Israel, and I've included a little bit of information about it below. On the micro level, there's been a great deal of washing and cleaning in my household as we get ready for the holiday. But the frenzy of activity in my small corner of the world pales in comparison to some of the bigger stories on the world stage. Earlier this week, Chairman Xi and Vladimir Putin were 'caught' on hot mic talking about the changes that are coming to the world. We need to be listening very closely to what they are saying. Mark has talked a lot recently about the fact ...
Tal and God continue their correspondence...
Rick McGinnis on The Wanderers in the shadow of The Warriors...
Steyn remembers Tim Ball, hounded into penury and death by the deadbeat Michael Mann...
SteynOnline is back in the cruise biz, with Snerdley, Eva, Leilani and more...
If you enjoy Steyn's Song of the Week at SteynOnline, please note that there will be a live stage edition during the 2023 Mark Steyn Cruise - along with many other favourite features from SteynOnline and The Mark Steyn Show. More details here. ~A fortnight ago, on Oscar night in Hollywood, Mark announced that, because he's so disgusted by the motion picture industry, he would be eschewing his tradition of celebrating an Academy Award-winning song (or an Academy Award-losing song). However, many longtime Song of the Weekers wrote to say they missed the annual reminder of the Silver Screen's better days and could Steyn reconsider. So herewith a composer who wrote three Oscar-winners and many more nominees - yet always wanted to be back in ...
Mark's contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's classic The Prisoner of Zenda: The Prisoner of Windsor...
Question: What's the connection between the Muslim call to prayer and Fred Astaire..?
Today's entry to Mark's anthology of video poetry is a special birthday entry, in honor of SteynOnline turning twenty this coming week...
November 1922 continues with a new Caliph in Constantinople, an old Pharoah in Luxor, an absent Emperor in the bridal suite, and a lot of dead prime ministers in Greece...