The difference between reporting what people say…

…and what fits your template, can be illustrated by a simple YouTube video: Note: Stacy really deserves the hits on this has he has done the legwork while I’m sitting on a couch a thousand miles away, but I’m posting it here in case you are unwilling to go to his site because Charles says [...]

And with the six degrees of seperation post attacking Sarah Palin…

… on his blog tonight lgf officially jumps the shark. Just for fun lets take a look at how long it’s been since Charles hit Hugo Chavez. The last hit is April of this year. Ol’ Hugo hasn’t done one odd thing since then, no sir. Now lets do the same search for Sarah Palin. [...]

The deletion of the ICK factor Polanski style

This telegram story says a lot deletion of the ick factor. I reread an extraordinary interview Polanski gave to the novelist Martin Amis in 1979, the year after Polanski went on the run. The interview originally appeared in Tatler and is collected in Amis’s excellent book Visiting Mrs Nabokov. Here’s a section of the first [...]

How clear is the morality of the Polanski case?

…Even that darling of liberal Catholicism Father Thomas Reese gets it: Imagine if the Knight of Columbus decided to give an award to a pedophile priest who had fled the country to avoid prison. The outcry would be universal. Victim groups would demand the award be withdrawn and that the organization apologize. Religion reporters would [...]