GingRich, paying for

Gingrich, if you are not entertaining I will stop paying....Attention.

GingRich, praying for

Oh, you high in the sky who sets elections results and everything else, please do not let Gingrich lose. The fun is too great. A Gagrich politician who makes me laugh. The great republican tent has gotten a three ring circus. To match CircUSA.  GRingrich and GingRing.
The old Roman tradition. Bread and circus. Panem et circenesem.  At least the republicans provide the circus. Circuses. In South Carolina the topping is CHerman Cain.

Inexplicable Huntsman

What was he doing in this race? Just showing his beautiful hair? Or displaying his skills in  Chinese? Waiting for money to flow from his dad? Testifying for climate change?  Waiting from some praise? Seemed a decent guy. Maybe he is, but he placed himself in the wrong crowd. Trying to balance the boat for the establishment he is the only one who never had  his day with the polls....And the larger crowd did not care for him. Except the democrats....So wait till you inherit your fortune...and the wind...

Douthat

Found his article in the NYT is very thoughtful. Of course the Times has a bunch of conservative writers liberals can agree with. Sometimes. Or at least in tone. By his account a return to darwinian capitalism has made possible vast increases in productivity and has maintained the country's leading position. But those who lost need to be taken care of. Somewhat. At least in speeches.
Think of Bush transforming FEMA in a terrorism fighting agency and then leaving New Orleans to sink.
I see serious problems with the Douthat view.  Who cares if productivity is high? When one is without prospects or a job (when one is not involved in production) one  cannot make a living by being happy that the country is first in productivity. You might feel good when your wins, but if you cannot afford a six-pack..

no fun highbrow

Everything seems to have been said about the campaign. Everything imaginable. By an infinite number of bloggers and  pundits and etc.  But to label the campaign boring, like David Brooks does, seems to me a novel idea. All these ups and downs and the debates....Wonder how does Brooks get his kicks? True, the ending is dull.

Ringtone

In the hospital. Listening to a discussion on the other side of the curtain.
-Mrs. Post you have been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
 When the Saints Go Marching In played loudly covers the conversation.
-It's me

Unbearable Lightness

For several days I had tried to remember the name of the actor who had played in The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Felt very depressed. Then looked in a list of 100 best British actors.  Read all the names and looked at their photos. Could not recognize ....Felt even worse - not only unable to remember but also not able to recognize the picture.  Later I found out it was Daniel Day Lewis who in fact was not listed.  Forgotten and omitted...

End of bets

Seems to me that the republican nomenclatura played the cards very deftly.  A bunch of idiots were encouraged to run, and they split the vote against Romney. The chips are down as they say in Las Vegas. Les jeux sont fait  as the croupiers will say.

Republican fun, adieu.

The republicans are turning nasty to each other. Not funny anymore. I am quitting. (Although I probably should not be afraid that they'll attack me also.)

According to the classics - a patent idiot

I read the classics. On buses or subways. In student abridged editions. Skip, reading only paragraphs that are short. Twitter size. All I can follow. This is La Bruyere.
C'est une grande misère que de n'avoir pas assez d'esprit pour bien parler ni assez de jugement pour se taire.  Voilà le principe de toute impertinence. 
or in a Google translation
It is a great misery not to have enough wit to talk well nor enough sense to be silent. This is the source of all impertinence. 
 Impertinence means here ill-manner. And this is who I am. This entire blog is in bad English, and I would better not say ball these stupidities. 

New Year without pop

We were at a party, a bunch of westsiders  watching the New Year show on TV. All kinds of intellectuals from the Hudson Valley. Who is this one? Who is Jenny McCarthy? Who are the Khardashians?  I actually read the NY Post every day at lunch but could not recognize any or give convincing explanations. A woman commented: Dick Clark? Isn't he embarrassed to still show up? But he was the only one we actually knew and recognized.
New Year without pop culture. Or just an old bunch of people.

going down

McDonald leaves Bolivia
Google moves out of  China
NASA abandons the shuttle

Champagne for 2012

What makes champagne the favorite drink for New Year's celebration? Sweetness? Feeling high in one second? As the old goes down? The bubbles that go up and break fast. Like any resolution....