Monthly Archives: September 2012

“Being ahead of your time means never being invited back…”

That’s Kathy Shaidle at Five Feet of Fury. She’s been blogging for twelve years, and her writing is sharper than ever. Like Steyn and Mencken, she is interesting by default, content be damned. Little minds would call this mastery amid … Continue reading

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An American girl in Iran? “All I could feel was the kicks of this woman who was insulting me and attacking me.”

Bloomberg: An Iranian cleric said he was beaten by a woman in the northern province of Semnan after giving her a warning for being “badly covered,” the state-run Mehr news agency reported. Hojatoleslam Ali Beheshti said he encountered the woman … Continue reading

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Life after foreclosure: Cultivate indifference and press on regardless.

We just lost our house to foreclosure. Negotiations with the bank fell apart and we spent the last seven days bugging out. This was our third Notice of Trustee’s Sale. We had managed to redeem the note twice before, and … Continue reading

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Movie of the week: My commencement speech.

So. It’s like two months since I’ve made a movie, and I’ve been feeling overfull of things to say. I spent a lot of time thinking about what I had wanted to say to The 21 Convention, and I ended … Continue reading

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