Unca Darrell

MARCH 26, 2018 / The finest movie I've ever seen is . . .

. . . Ida. 

It’s a 2013 Polish film by director Pawel Pawlikowski. It was shot in a spare and beautiful black-and-white. Wikipedia summarizes the plot this way:

 

MARCH 23, 2018 / Another dreadful way station on the highway to . . .

 . . American decline: the $1.3 trillion omnibus federal budget deal.

Matt Welch gives the 30,000-foot overview:

[It's] long . . . past time to recognizing a glaring truth about two-party politics in 2018: In both effective practice and, increasingly, aspirational rhetoric, there are no significant Republican or Democratic voting blocs on Capitol Hill in favor of . . .

MARCH 20, 2018 / How much does Slick Hillary love America?

WHEN ONE POLITICIAN says something nasty about another politician, a classic way to push the stiletto a bit deeper goes like this:

Reporter: Senator A, why did you say in a closed meeting that Senator B has the intelligence of a box of dry Ramen noodles? 

MARCH 14, 2018 / It depends on what . . .

. . . the meaning of am is.

Senator Elizabeth Warren most decidedly did not nix a run for president in 2020, as some have reported. 

What she said on the Sunday talk shows was . . .  

MARCH 7, 2018 -- The economics lecture Donald J. Trump . . .

. . . slept through:

Extra credit for spotting Ben Stein's deliberate error . . .