Hey, it's the first Goldberg, Long, and Podhoretz of the new year and our merry band of gentlemen and gentile riff on a wide variety of topics for you. This week: funiculars, Al Gore sells to Al-Jazeera, just where are Obama's women cabinet officers, lower standards for Mount Rushmore, Chuck Hagel, Downton Abbey, the Oscars, Game of Thrones, the Oscars and Lincoln, and yes, trillion dollar coins and John's out of the box idea for solving the debt crisis.
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May '10
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Man... that's the second time since the New Year my name has been linked to the word dread... I am getting a seriously sinister reputation around these parts.
Oct '12
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I haven't listened yet. I'm saving it. This is by far my favorite high-brow podcast, especially now that Milt Rosenberg has been taken off the air.
I don't know if you all have settled on a name yet, but I've been recommending this to everyone as the GoLoPod.
Jul '12
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EJHill
No. Battle Stars are awarded to units that participate in a major battle. He did not earn five bronze stars. · 17 hours ago
Amazing how this stuff gets garbled. I can see how bronze battle stars on a campaign ribbon get confused with bronze stars for indviduals, but one source on the net has him as one of the first allied soldiers to enter Berlin (which seems unlikely unless the 296th CEB got attached to the Soviet army somehow, which would be a story...).
But who was JPod really thinking about? I suppose I should just review highly decorated fighter pilots of WWII, but I think I'll just assume it was George McGovern (a B-24 pilot awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross) who sort of looked like Gavin McCleod (who was 14 in 1945). Until corrected.
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Based on this Twitter conversation, he was thinking about Ted Knight.
Jul '12
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Thanx. I get it now. Confusing the reality of comic books with the deeper reality of 70s sitcoms.
But now (as I read Wikipedia on service stars) seems like the five bronze battle stars should have been one silver battle star. I give up.
Mar '11
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On the subject of shows in particular and the popular culture in general, I stopped watching TV series years ago. Two things seem to happen to shows I like: either they're canceled early (Rome and Sleeper Cell after only two seasons each), or they devolve into leftist hellholes. For you Game of Thrones people, the Dubya's-Head-On-A-Stick should be a huge warning flag. As someone else said, whatever isn't explicitly right wing becomes left wing over time. I heard the guys praise Downton Abbey, but I just heard an interview with an actor on the show where he describes that world as awful and how glad he is the society has progressed. Even money says the plot ends up agreeing with him.
Agree with the guys on how Lost is the perfect representative of the ADHD generation, a show with no plot that the creators simply wing it and use shiny objects to keep viewers strung along like fish to a lure. As Jonah once put it, there was never anything in the shiny box in the first place.
Sep '10
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Bill Clinton was named Father of the Year because he got the Son, Obama, reelected. It's a creepy psychological drama, the Democratic party. Shakespearean, actually. Where's Maureen Dowd when you need her?
Jan '11
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Leslie Watkins, fantastic observation!
Mar '11
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This Orthodox Jew (and Commentary subscriber) cringed when John referred to Christmas as a pagan holiday.
Feb '11
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Me too, but I've already complained about John Podhoretz and was overall pleased with his improvement this podcast ;-) so didn't want to appear petty and complain. Thanks for saying so!
Jul '12
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This is just a reminder from your jolly old Presbyterian curmudgeon that not all Christians celebrate the "holy day" of Christmas. God has given us 52 (53 some years) holy days which are sufficient for our needs. :)
For an irenic defense of the traditional Presbyterian position (yes I realize there are but a few of us traditional Presby's around anymore) I recommend reading this link.
Mar '11
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You're welcome, MT, and thanks for the link. Think Rob trying to give Jonah more talk time by directing questions/comments to him. Anticipating the interrupting puts me on edge and takes away from an otherwise enjoyable podcast.
Mama Toad
Me too, but I've already complained about John Podhoretz and was overall pleased with his improvement this podcast ;-) so didn't want to appear petty and complain. Thanks for saying so! · 4 hours ago
Feb '11
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Benjamin Glaser: This is just a reminder from your jolly old Presbyterian curmudgeon that not all Christians celebrate the "holy day" of Christmas. God has given us 52 (53 some years) holy days which are sufficient for our needs. :)
For an irenic defense of the traditional Presbyterian position (yes I realize there are but a few of us traditional Presby's around anymore) I recommend reading this link. · 5 hours ago
Even if you don't want to celebrate the Mass of Christ, or Christmas, calling it a "pagan holiday" still seems a bit extreme, no? Unless you believe that Catholic liturgical practice is paganistic?
Jul '12
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Well in an effort to be polite I would not use such language in mixed company, but yes I do think Roman liturgical practices are "paganistic".
But again that simply is to highlight the radical differences between traditional Presbyterian theology and traditional Roman theology.
Sep '10
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too bad, Wreck-it Ralph is a very clever movie, with very good messages. check it out.
Mama Toad: As mama to six, there are times when I ask Papa Toad to just leave the house with everyone so I can be alone in my own home... Ah, the peace and quiet... The last time they bailed on me, they went to seeWreck-it Ralph... sooo glad to have missed that.
But I can honestly say I have never ever had any temptation to wonder around with no clothing or wear the spaghetti strainer as a codpiece....
We are all glad that EJ did not choose to photoshop thatparticular part of the show... · January 11, 2013 at 7:51pm
Feb '11
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That's what my family said -- in fact, my eldest said it is now one of his favorite movies -- but even so, it pales greatly in comparison to a hot bath and a good book when no one is around to argue, fight, want to use the bathroom, make noise, ask annoying questions, etc...
Feb '11
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Benjamin Glaser: Well in an effort to be polite I would not use such language in mixed company, but yes I do think Roman liturgical practices are "paganistic".
But again that simply is to highlight the radical differences between traditional Presbyterian theology and traditional Roman theology. · 20 hours ago
"I do not pray for these only, but also for those who believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. The glory which thou hast given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and thou in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know thou hast sent me and hast loved them even as thou hast loved me." John 17:20-23
Let us pray for Christian unity. Amen.
Jan '11
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Mama Toad - maybe we should pray for the impossible - Republican unity...
Feb '11
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Oremus...
Sep '10
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Though it often seems like satire to me.
haven't seen you on here in a while, welcome back.