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Tonight in my International Law seminar we’re talking about the Law of the Sea (and Air, Space, etc.) Why do I love my job? Because I get to talk a bit about the British sinking of the German Heavy Cruiser — The Admiral Graf Spee. After battling the British cruisers Exeter, Ajax, and Achilles [...] I think I found Rufus… He’s over in the UK helping QE2 celebrate 60 years as queen. He’s her “footman” — whatever that means. http://yhoo.it/zWzUQs Share on Facebook Share on Facebook I liked Tsotsi, and since this movie features friend of RF3D Stelio Savante, do believe I’ll be off to the Pan Africa Film fest next Friday. Share on Facebook While I doubt Libyan militia are as self-aware as Aesop’s Scorpion… Western elites (politicians, media, bureaucrats) are surely just as, if not more, gullible than the Frog. Who besides the suits (including pantsuits) didn’t see things like this coming? Human Rights Watch said that Omar Brebesh, a career diplomat who was cultural attache [...] I can’t wait to jump on the roller coaster The Ride of the Valkyrie… at -fritz’s new vacation resort: Adolf Hitler’s secret ‘Wolf Lair’ set deep in the heart of a forest in north-eastern Poland is to be turned into a major tourist attraction. Forestry workers are looking for an investor to help make the [...] Share on Facebook This month’s open threads will be some non-fiction selections… a smattering of books on my shelves…. Very few works really deserve the description “tour de force”… Jacques Barzun’s book From Dawn to Decadence is one that does: Share on Facebook Chris Christie is at it again… a NJ lawmaker compared Christie to George Wallace — segregationist governor — for saying that gay marriage should be put up for referendum as opposed to legislated from Trenton. Christie, answers that charge here… in classic Christie fashion. Share on [...] The above lithograph, by Theodore Gericault in 1818 is called The Boxers. It depicts the December 1810 fight between English champion Tom Cribb versus freed American slave Tom Molineaux. How well known was it? Both boxers are in the Boxing Hall of Fame and it was well known enough to capture the imagination of [...] Above is Lt. Cdr. (USN) Minter Dial who died in a Japanese POW camp in the Phillipines in 1945. He gave his Naval Academy ring to a fellow POW to give to his wife Lisa after the War… well… Smithsonian Magazine has the story of this ring…. and it’s a helluva ride. Thank God [...] Stories about John Tyler’s grandson still being alive are making the rounds at The Huffington Post, Yahoo! News, etc. That’s John Tyler — the 10th President of these United States. Whatever… Friggin’ amateurs. Anyone who had been reading this little blog two years ago already knew that. Share on Facebook Robert Kagan of The Brookings Institution (and the Reagan Administration among many other posts) has an interesting piece entitled “Against the Myth of American Decline at The New Republic (of all places!): Is the United States in decline, as so many seem to believe these days? Or are Americans in danger of committing [...] In January of 1984, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed January 22 — the anniversary date of Roe v. Wade — National Sanctity of Human Life Day (Bush and Bush continued the proclamations, Clinton and Obama did not of course). Politically, he is correct of course in one major way… a correct and reasonable interpretation of [...] Reading the liner notes to the special edition of U2′s Under a Blood Red Sky I recently (finally?) bought, couldn’t help but get a little irked at writer Anthony DeCurtis’ attempt to explain the “explosive imagery” in “Sunday Bloody Sunday” by way of a “contemporary equivalent to writing a song called “September 11, [...] Instapundit linked to a great piece by Michael Walsh in The New York Post on the origins of New York’s gun control laws: Recent months have seen a former Marine from Indiana, a Tea Party activist from California and a nurse from Tennessee all arrested and charged in New York City for possession of [...] I’d like to take this time to thank the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for living a life most certainly worthy of a day of recognition. His message, so deviously twisted by many in the Democrat party, a party whose policies the Republican Dr. King eloquently and actively opposed, fortunately reached the likes [...] Remember the recent flap over the Michelle Obama-as-Marie Antoinette? via the LA Times: The caricature of Obama as a profligate queen relies on the racist stereotype of an “uppity Negro,” which emerged among slave masters in an earlier American era. Obama, born into a working-class Chicago family whose roots are traced to the pre-Civil War [...] |
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