Election Day Minus Nine
There are two elections taking place in America - one on the quaintly named "Election Day", the other in the weeks (and possibly months) before and after. Having access to what he calls some "deep-in-the-weeds" data, Powerline's Steve Hayward writes: Early votes cast already supposedly favor Biden (assuming respondents are being truthful with surveyors that they have in fact cast their ballots), but of people saying they intend to vote in person on election day, Trump is ahead almost 3 to 1 in some states. My conclusion: Trump is going to win a landslide among votes cast on election day. But with more than 50 million votes or more being cast by mail, even a small lead may disappear in the week after, depending on how the vote count goes. ... |
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Steyn's Song of the WeekI Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store)
As I mentioned earlier today, the Age of Lockdown has seen a massive transfer from small business to global megaliths such as Amazon. I regret that because it has accelerated the replacement of genuine social life by mere cyber life. So I thought we might have a song on the theme. When I moved to New Hampshire, I was thrilled to find that two or three towns away there was a genuine old-school all-American five-and-dime, just like in the movies. My kids loved it because of all the toys, but you could also find everything else from clothes to, as the song says, china. The proprietor was a justice of the peace, so she occasionally married couples at the register. It is gone now, and it will never come again... The Mark Steyn ShowElection Day Minus Ten
Welcome to the weekend edition of The Mark Steyn Show. Mark gives an update on Campaign 2020 from acronymic sexism to woke generals, reflects on competing realities with a bit of classic Steyn from long before this crazy year, offers a poem and a song for the times plus the Grinch who stole Christmas prematurely... Politics & Current AffairsElection Day Minus Eleven
Trump and Biden meet for their second and last debate Politics & Current AffairsElection Day Minus Twelve
After the last four years, would you take advice from the feds on "disinformation"? Laura's Links#MeToobin, Manstruation, and the Trump Effect
Laura Rosen Cohen on Jeffrey Toobin's Zoom surprise, mask mayhem, tampons for men, and more... The Mark Steyn ShowPutting a Lid on It
Mark covers Campaign 2020 two weeks out, the liberation of Jeffrey Toobin's penis, Britain's bonking ban, and a French decapitation. There's another edition of The Hundred Years Ago Show, plus a windswept chanteuse... Topical TakeTomorrow's Civilizational Cringe Today
Steyn on the latest beheading on the streets of Europe Steyn on the AirLiberty vs Lockdown
Mark and Jon Roskam on the very weird world of 2020 The War on Free SpeechThe Costs of Mann Delay
Michael E Mann, loser, liar, scofflaw and deadbeat |
Mark's Week in ReviewA Se'nnight of Steyn, October 19-25
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark Shaidle at the CinemaThe Hilarious House of Frightenstein
Kathy Shaidle on the enduring quality of a low-budget Canadian kids' horror show – and how Vincent Price wound up on it... Steyn's Song of the WeekGoodness Gracious She
Mark remembers Herbert Kretzmer, lyricist of Les Misérables, "Yesterday When I Was Young" and much more A Clubman's NotesMeet the Voter
Just ahead of our thirty-ninth audio adventure, thank you for all your kind comments about our thirty-eighth: The Prisoner of Windsor, a summer diversion from yours truly inverting the premise of The Prisoner of Zenda. Nancy Hawkes, a Mark Steyn Clubber from Virginia, writes:
The Mark Steyn Weekend ShowOf Sleep and Slough
An anthology of some favorite Mark Steyn Show poems of recent months, matched to some appropriate musical interludes. From the Fall of Rome and of Constantinople to the joys of sleep, life's rich variety is all here... A Clubman's NotesThe Elphbergs - with a Word on the Rassendylls
For this year's summer entertainment, Mark's contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's classic The Prisoner of Zenda: The Prisoner of Windsor... Steyn's Song of the WeekHits from the Headlines
Songs about statues, marching through Georgia, virus-infected felines, and taking the town of Minneapolis... Mann vs SteynFootball and Hockey
The Corner post that launched a lawsuit... |
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