Jeremayakovka

Contemplation

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Totalitarian tyranny is built not on the virtues of totalitarians
but on the vices of liberals.
-- Albert Camus

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The drawing I did back in 1993. (The model was written up most justly in the book The Undressed Art.) The quote is from Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947, "Why Spain?" (p. 301), reviewed by Erika Dreifus.

It Takes One To Know One

Who's a monster?
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Well, well. The true face of Obama foreign policy brain trust shows itself.

First thought: If only all partisan liberals took responsibility for their attitudes and actions in a like manner.

Second thought: It's more damage control than responsibility, however. She's a well-heeled intellectual, ideas are her currency. She doesn't need to be officially on board to still influence Obama's foreign policy or his other advisers.

Last year Men's Vogue fawned over the (well-stiletto-heeled) "Genocide Chick" (click for pic).

The Machine Beat The Mantra

What a night. She did what she had to do. So did McCain. It's so far from over.

The day after, now, "independents are the mother's milk of politics."

"He Was A Good And Decent Man"

Rick Perlstein on why William F. Buckley, Jr. was his role model.

"A Tribute to the Master" from the Center for Visions and Values at Grove City College.

Between friends: Charlie Rose hosts Buckley who reminisces about Joe McCarthy, Whittaker Chambers, Ayn Rand, Ronald Reagan .... It's impossible to defend McCarthy and it's super-impossible to defend his critics .... weighs in on Bush: He has not entirely succeeded in declaiming his own mission.... He has not successfully mobilized public sentiment on this issue [Iraq]. On conservatism: There isn't at this point a solid challenge posed by [i.e., to] conservatism.