June 2010
7 posts
Dictating the Friendships of Little Children
The End of the Best Friend The tag-line of this New York Times article reads: School officials intent on discouraging any exclusivity are seeking to sever traditional best-friend bonds. The more normal something is, the more it must be destroyed by the modern liberal managerial complex. “Educators” and other people entrusted with the day-to-day care of children (the role that used to...
The Knights of Chicago
The Brian DePalma movie, The Untouchables, is a story of knighthood. It’s an old-fashioned story of good and evil that you don’t see much anymore. Elliot Ness (Kevin Costner) is loved by his wife and daughter; and he will stop at nothing to protect them. But he creates their protection himself, with his own weapons and his own orders and actions. Because he is a man of the law, and a...
mhsteger:
Mondnacht, the fifth song of the...
“The traditional view is that true art is moral: it seeks to improve life, not...”
– John Gardner