Mad Jones at Octavia Books, New Orleans, July 23
AT OCTAVIA BOOKS! To all in New Orleans or vicinity, I am very excited to announced that Octavia Books is hosting me at 6 p.m. on July 23 for a […]
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The quiddity of Chappaquiddick was pure tragedy
It would be easy, and not unwarranted, to mark Thursday’s 50th anniversary of the Chappaquiddick incident by reviewing in excruciating detail all the ways that night that then-Sen. Ted Kennedy […]
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Forty years ago, Jimmy Carter’s malignant ‘malaise’ speech
Forty years ago today, Jimmy Carter gave one of the worst speeches in American presidential history. Reading it again, I am surprised to see that the notorious “malaise” speech is even worse […]
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AG Bill Barr speaks against anti-Semitism
As the media had conniption fits all day Monday about President Trump’s apparently bigoted Tweets about liberal Democratic representatives, the Department of Justice was focusing necessary attention on the growth […]
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Jazz in the book adds context to jazz on film
(July 13). With 2019 being the year of movies celebrating British-originated rock music of the 1960s (Beatles) and 1970s (Elton John and Queen), Americans should take time to view a film about […]
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I’ll never buy Nike again
(July 8). I will never buy another Nike product again. I know I’m far from the only one to make this pledge. Nike’s withdrawal of its shoes featuring a representation of the […]
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NASA promised the moon, and delivered — for all of us
(July 11). (A slightly different version of this is running in the Washington Examiner print magazine.) Fifty years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon, one senses […]
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Hacks, Louisiana Gov race, and N.O. floods
Three Examiner pieces by Quin (links embedded in the headlines); National GOP ups ante in LA Gov. race (July 9): Because only three states have gubernatorial elections in 2019, even […]
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Cuckoo for Coco Gauff! Cuckoo for Coco Gauff!!
July 5. In 15-year-old American Coco Gauff, we may be seeing the debut of the next truly great women’s tennis player. That may be a radically premature assessment as she […]
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‘Yesterday’ is most fun film of today, and of the year
(July 5). No road too long or too winding should keep you away from seeing the movie Yesterday. My wife and I both agreed it was the most simply enjoyable flick we’ve […]
