among OTHER reasons:

TONI MORRISON: “I want to see a cop shoot a white unarmed teenager in the back.” 

From Being Judged by the Content of Your Character to Seeing a Cop Shoot an Unarmed White Teenager in the Back: A New Vision of a Post-Racial Society

Ed Driscoll remembers when lefties were swearing off the rhetoric of violence. Yeah, that didn’t last long. It never does with them.

Bogie by the Numbers: Flickchart’s Top 10 Humphrey Bogart Movies

I've seen everything in the top 10.  Best Bogie I HAVEN'T see is

#13

Dark Passage

1947  •  Delmer Daves

Film Noir  •  Mystery  •  Romance

14 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz PG 8

60 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston NR 466

94 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston NR 173

103 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks NR 103

261 The African Queen 1951 John Huston NR 162

295 In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray NR 2765

349 Key Largo 1948 John Huston NR 686

385 Sabrina 1954 Billy Wilder NR 2692

565 Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 Michael Curtiz NR 2009

604 Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks NR 2500

 

Huston and Hawks dominate my list.  To Have and Have not should be higher, in the 350s.  In a lonely place should probably drop into the 400's.  But there you have it.

 

 

let's look t foreign "policy" today, shall we?

The Clinton Foundation's Dubious Foreign Dealings

 TOM MAGUIRE ON HILLARY’S BIGGEST POLICY DEBACLE (THAT WE KNOW OF): Eerily Prescient On The Libyan Debacle.

MORE ON HILLARY’S FAILED WAR OF CHOICE: How the fall of Qaddafi gave rise to Europe’s migrant crisis.

Tim Carney: When battling Hillary, it’s the cronyism, stupid.

MITT ROMNEY ON HILLARY’S URANIUM DEAL: “It looks like bribery.” Well, that’s because it is.\

and the Civil War buff in me would be remiss if I didn't post this from JOHN FUND: Fiorina Has Hillary Defenders Worried. I like Carly Fiorina. She fights. Can we find out what she drinks, and send it to all the other Republicans?

Flickchart has listed over 54,000 movies.  I've only seen/ranked about 7,000.  Here are the top English language movies I haven't seen.  Just for giggles

'Freedom — whatever rulers have not yet benevolently prohibited'

Law — Any hodgepodge of commands and special interest windfalls heaved together under a misleading title which is rubberstamped by Congress and fails to make five Supreme Court justices visibly retch."

Scurrilous — anyone who mentions previous federal failures when the president proposes glorious new programs.

Long but readable: We Came in Peace, for All Humankind: Six years of Social Justice Warriors fighting the dictionary, with some thoughts from David Gelernter and Kurt Schlichter.

KEVIN WILLIAMSON: Jobs, And “Jobs.”

It’s a safe assumption that Uber’s PR weasels are the same species of mustelid as every other PR weasel, and I have no love for them. But setting aside the question of whether press releases ought to be obliged to follow the terminological practices of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the implicit Reich-Griswold view is an interesting illustration of the mindset of managerial progressivism, which holds that the normative state of affairs for the vast majority of people in the modern world is to be dependency, either as public wards or as employees. The assumption is that most people cannot be expected to take responsibility for their income, for their health care, for making arrangements for child care and retirement, etc., and so somebody—employers or government—must be deputized to do this for them. (Note Professor Reich’s formulation: We’re responsible/not responsible.) This is the classic progressive view of human beings as liabilities rather than assets, liabilities that are dealt with by the issuance of fortnightly checks and the maintenance of certain benefits packages. Independent contractor? Quelle horreur! . . .

The Left’s moral crusade against Uber is partly about protecting ancient Democrat-supporting fiefdoms—the local taxi cartels—but it is also an expression of the deeply ingrained belief that most people cannot handle independence and responsibility, that most people are best suited to punching clocks and saying “Thank you, sir, may I have another?” every two weeks. I very much doubt that that will be the normal situation 20 or 30 years hence, which is why I think of Professor Reich et al. as more reactionary than progressive

And rightly so.

KEVIN WILLIAMSON: With Hillary, Appearances Are Everything.

Every Mystery Machine must have its Velma. You’ll remember Velma Dinkley, the grim-faced young fogey of the Scooby-Doo gang: turtleneck and knee socks, orange; pleated skirt and pumps, red; spectacle lenses a very groovy shade of aqua; hair in a severe, LPGA-ready bob. She was the thick and bookish counterpoint to the comely Daphne Blake. But the id moves in mysterious ways, and Velma has enjoyed a strange post-1970s career as a minor object of erotic fixation, being portrayed on film by the knockout Linda Cardellini and, in a dramatic illustration of Rule 34, by the pornographic actress Bobbi Starr. . . .

Read it all.  Also not that the reason the van is referred to as "The Scooby-Doo Van" instead of its proper name, The Mystery Machine, is that "Mystery Machine" is the name given to the Clinton e-mail server. 

Thanks.  I'm here all week.  Try the veal.

If you aren't reading Roger Simon regularly you SHOULD be: : Whatever You Think About Hillary, It’s Worse!

LAWS ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Scooby hits the road at 92 MPH! Secret Service zooms Hillary to dinner through driving rain following secret afternoon house party. To be fair, if I were driving Hillary around I’d be in a hurry to reach the destination too.

Not just two tigers but ALSO the Golden Tigers AND the MAroon Tigers

Panthers and Wildcats are a bit banal, but the Dragons kick em up a notch, as do the Thoroughbreds and Marauders.

Top it off with the Golden Rams and Golden Bears and you have the

Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

I find myself sinking deeper, and more often.  And it's tougher to get out.  Do these idiots (and their ill-informed enablers) REALLY realize what they're suggesting?  Do they REALLY want this?

JUST IGNORE ‘EM!:   What is it about progressives that makes them think it is good for society to ignore the rule of law?  The latest iteration comes in the form of explicit calls to ignore the Supreme Court whenever it rules the “wrong” (i.e., non-progressive) way.

Do they realize what would happen under President Cruz?  For eaxample, see: Liberal Pundit Says America Should ‘Ignore’ the ‘Antidemocratic’ Supreme Court. Should America Start By Ignoring Roe v. Wade?

How shortsighted can the BE???  

In an ethics class acouple years back I had an African student ask why President Obama couldn't just do whatever he wanted.  I swallowed myresponses which involved snarky comments about us not being an African or South AMerican tin-pot dicatatorship and threw the question open to my "American" students hoping at least ONE of the more than two dozen might hit on something like "The Constitution," "limited power," or even "checks and balances."  Instead I got silence.  And the largely black (African American has a VERY different meaning in the career college melieu) student body tended to agree that POTUS Obama should be able to do whatever he wanted.  When asked if former POTUS Bush should've been granted the same power there were sighs and mumbles and a couples groans of "outrage."  And they saw NO problem with this. Their guy should have unlimited power and the other guy should be limited by rule of law. 

 Thus marks the decline of the teaching of civics in the these post-modern United States.

Strong evidence for ‘rapid climate change’ found in past millenia

Leonardo DiCaprio the ‘eco warrior’ flew on a private jet from NY to LA SIX times in SIX weeks, Sony hack documents reveal.

So it's not a choice?  Bizarre Huffington Post Claim: We all need to ‘come out’ on Climate Change

HUH. I WONDER WHAT HE’S TRYING TO SAY WITH THAT? NY Times Frank Bruni: Huma “Clings” To Hillary “So Tightly, Their Relationship Could Be Called Marsupial.”

CLICK AT YOUR PERIL: The Hillary Laugh Button.

TERRY MCAULIFFE, LOYAL FLACK: Va. governor defends Clinton’s ‘dead broke’ comments. “I cannot tell you the distress in that family at that time, with all the issues and all the legal fees, banks refusing to even give them a mortgage.”

Plus, from Chuck Todd: “They had nothing compared to a lot of rich friends.” Well, when you hang out with a lot of billionaires, yes, you have nothing compared with them. That’s not the same as “dead broke” except in a narcissistic psychological sense.