Monthly Archives: August 2024

Michel Hazanavicius manages to bore his readership @LeMonde_EN!

American Provincial quotes just enough of Michel Hazanavicius ennui inducing essay… Why do so many young, pink-assed, Nike-wearing French people want to be revolutionaries and fierce defenders of the weakest with a one-dimensional reading of the issue? And why do … Continue reading

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Reader do recall Gillian Tett’s ‘A debt to history? in @FT of January 16, 2015? Gillian Tett of 2024, still proves herself to be a very valuable Economic/Thinker/Writer !

Political Observer comments from 2015 & 2024. Here is a portion of Tett’s essay from January 16, 2015, the whole essay is more than worthy of your attention! Headline: A debt to history? Sub-headline: To some, Germany faces a moral … Continue reading

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Political Observer confesses: I can’t resist Janan Ganesh chatter, @FT !

Just look at the political actors, players, walk-ons in Ganesh’ s latest Historical Re -Write its like crewel embroidery aided by gusts of Hot Air . Editor: Paragraph 1: …the American left…, …Defund the Police…,…White Fragility…, Politics being downstream of culture,…, Dave … Continue reading

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There is nothing more toxic than American’s addiction to ‘The Hollywood Star’ ?

Myra Breckenridge comments upon ‘“Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes”’ by Alissa Wilkinson, in The New York Times. As the creature of Gore Vidal’s vivid, and at times perverse sexual imagination, I’m probably not the right semi-plagiarist, and pretender, to rifle … Continue reading

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@Peter_Conradi feature story on Holly-Rose Clegg acting career in Paris, lapses into a stern lecture to The French!

Political Observer comments & supplies ‘a selective reading’ of Conradi’s polemic! Mr. Conradi’s feature story begin as just that: When Holly-Rose Clegg was beginning her acting career in Paris, a job at Starbucks helped pay her bills. Almost a decade … Continue reading

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@tomfriedman’s self-congratulation @NYT never surprises!

Political Observer comments. The first three paragraphs of this essay wallows in a retelling of a History, that is still unfolding. But the very canny Mr. Friedman lets his ‘reader’ know that he is aware of the various political actors in this … Continue reading

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