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LILEKS (James) the Bleat
LILEKS (James) the Bleat
TUESDAY , Sept. 16 Yes, I know, it wasn’t Dame Judith Anderson in Amok Time. And by “I know” I mean I didn’t, and was duly corrected 1,345 times. Thank you for your kind nudging. It was, of course, Irene Ryan who played T’Pau. Jolly day. Woke up this morning, as the blues song has it, and went ...
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Twelve Years of Palinsanity?
The Sundries Shack — I’ve written more about Sarah Palin, and the crazed reactions to her, in the past two weeks than probably anyone else in the time I’ve had The Shack. I’ve honestly watned to write less about her but the stories just keep pulling me back in. I’m less fascinated with her, though, than I am with the people who have gone completely batspit insane at the very notion of her getting within ten feet of the White House. James Lileks shares my interest, and puts it a lot better than I ever could. I don’t know if anyone’s ...

God hates Palin
Cold Fury — ... Himself? Now, I am a reform Christian, so it is permissible for me to secretly believe that God hates this woman, too. No, it isn’t. It really isn’t. Tells us all a lot about just how much your brand of Christianism is actually worth, though, and how much sacrifice and thoughtful inner struggle your feel-good-always rationalizations masquerading as worthwhile spirituality really demand of you. I’ll leave the rest of the necessary fisking of this self-justifying New Age twaddle in the capable hands of Mr Lileks . I can only take so much hateful sanctimony this early in the ...

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