Columbo: “And There is Just One More Thing….”
The headlines for Columbus Day included a study purporting to show that Columbus was a “secret Jew.” What does anyone think that means?
The headlines for Columbus Day included a study purporting to show that Columbus was a “secret Jew.” What does anyone think that means?
The First World War was a defining moment for the civilization of Europe. The first war and its inevitable successor have been called Europe’s civil war, and there is truth in this characterization. Divided by language, religion, and culture, the nations of Europe were united in a common civilization. But if the two conflicts were part of a European civil war, they were also the beginning of the end of Europe and Christendom, whose memory is now preserved only in libraries, museums, and some churches.
In this final episode in the series, Dr. Fleming looks at Walter Hill’s 1980 film The Long Riders, which offers a look-in at the James-Younger gang and their exploits in Missouri and elsewhere.
No one today, it seems, can pursue a hobby, escape a vice, or suffer a tragedy without submitting himself to the ministrations of “professional” experts.
I used to take some care in cutting and lighting my cigars, but the sight of the aficionados at work, many of whom have less taste in cigars than the affected young man, has driven me to biting the end off and snatching a light from a pack of cheap matches or from the kitchen stove.
In Sicily they say a cat has seven lives. I am now on my seventh, and the thought of it no more perturbs me than it does the tenacious feline.
The Daily Mail has just published an article by Todd Bensman, who has been in Colombia investigating the U.S. taxpayer funded system of importing Third World immigrants into the United States.
Why would an American lad who probably describes himself to his friends as a pacifist want to look like a soldier of fortune? Why would an English lass who is probably vegan, or at least free of gluten, want to look like a Papuan cannibal?
My subject today is mildly unpleasant, but since it had fascinated me for quite some time I now decided to take the plunge.