Nov 18 2009
The Decline and Fall of Andrew Sullivan
I’m currently finishing the last volume of Anthony Powell’s Dance to the Music of Time. One of the book’s themes is the decline and fall of Kenneth Widmerpool, a friend (sort of) of the narrator who is introduced in the first pages of the first volume, some forty years before the series’ end.
It occurs [...]
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Nov 15 2009
The Bow as “Protocol”
Politico reports that “A senior administration official said President Barack Obama was simply observing protocol when he bowed to Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko upon arriving at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Saturday.”
Why won’t that “senior administration official” come out from behind the curtain and make that assertion in his own name? Because [...]
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