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This week, a GLoP for the ages as the fellows riff Bradley (or Chelsea) Manning, Greenwald’s smuggling partner, a detailed report from the front lines of the NR Cruise, Greece and Scotland, thoughts on Lee Daniels’ “The Butler”, Oprah’s handbag, “Breaking Bad” (of course), some comments on commenters, and muse about the Photoshop for this very show. Hope we didn’t disappoint!
We won’t say his name.
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My life improves immensely when the next podcast is released from Chelsea Long, Chelsea Goldberg, and Chelsea Podhoretz.
Thanks again . . . . . . .
This is a great podcast. What a fantastic decision by the Ricochet management to create this program.
— Anonymous,
I don’t want to discourage John after his Audible recommendation of Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver but he has seven more (equally long) books in the Baroque Cycle to get through. Like the podcast, they’re great listening.
Yes.
What’s wrong with you?
Why should Manning be allowed to pick a groovy name like Chelsea? If he’s being punished why not assign him a name like Gertrude or Mildred? It might be a deterrent to the next transvestite Army leaker.
My favorite Neal Stephenson novel (and probably the most well known) is Cryptonomicon, a story that jumps all over the globe and has storylines in both WWII and modern day.
It would make a great HBO style series or miniseries.
Incidentally, some of the characters reappear in Quicksilver.
It would make a great HBO style series or miniseries.
Incidentally, some of the characters reappear in Quicksilver. ·13 minutes ago
Agree 1000 %. In the mini-series I see Mark Steyn as Enoch Root.
GloPketeers club.
I didn’t have cable for a long time -and then I got it this past year, but I avoided Breaking Bad because there were so many back-seasons of it I had no idea if I could follow it. Then they were showing a marathon of all of Breaking Bad in preparation for the last episodes. So I tune in. Made it 30 minutes -maybe less -and turned it off.
No interest.
“Treat me like a woman” – loved the Shawshank Redemption image of Manning arriving at prison and asking to be treated like a woman.
Oprah is probably so used to living in her ivory tower and being treated super duper well she just does not know how the rest of us live and get treated. She has damaged her image because even my all-male, finance office was talking about her and the $35,000 purse but not in a sympathetic way.
Fantastic podcast.
I have recently gotten into Single Malts. Trying to learn the ropes isn’t easy and it isn’t cheap. However, I have found taster sets from Glen Livet and Glen Morangie. The former with 3 species the latter with 4. The Glen Livet comes in bottle of 4ooML the latter in bottles of 100ML. My normal indulgence is probably a shot, significantly more than the 25ML Jonah was served in Scotland. I can well understand his disappointment.
I also found Jonah’s comments about liking the sweet (aged in Sherry casks) varieties more. Initially in my search I found the same, Macallan and Glen fidditch being my immediate favorites, but after consuming a fifth of Glen Livet over period of a little over a month, I find that I am drawn to it more that the others. I am yet to try Laphroaig. At $75 a bottle I would hate to buy it and find that it is as bad as many of my acquaintances say it is.
Anyway, having never been a drinker, I am finding a great deal of pleasure in the “study” of single malts which are, indeed, an art form.
After Jonah’s rant I looked up the conversion, a normal U.S. shot is 44 mL. So the 25mL is little more than half a shot.
Photoshop gremlins?
The conversation about Paul Johnson made me envious. He has always been my favorite historian. While I enjoyed Modern Times and his history on the American People (he puts Zinn to shame!), my favorite book by Johnson is the Intellectuals. If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend it. It gives you such great insight into the minds and lives of people who have shaped modern civilization with their various philosophies—people like Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, and Rousseau. What tragic, sad, lives these people lived.
Am I the only person who cannot get into Breaking Bad?
Why are these three still alive?
-Anonymous
While I do enjoy GLOP, still prefer the original, then Need to Know then Law Talk more. I simply learn more from them.
Of course, that like saying I enjoy Ruth, Gehrig and DiMaggio more than Mantle
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The Baroque Cycle is 3 massive novels (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World, which were later broken out into smaller, more wee/Scottish-dram-sized novels because apparently large books are to be shunned like selfish Scots.
It’s safe to recommend anything by Stephenson, although I could never digest Anathem. As mentioned in another thread. Zodiac and Snow Crash are early favorites.
Go GLoP!
Bradley Manning will be going to Ft Leavenworth military prison. Leavenworth is far different than a civilian prison and his life will be controlled at every level from here on out. Whether his gender identity is man or woman, it will make no difference, his life will be hell.
Did anyone else notice how John and Jonah would not touch with a ten foot pole Rob’s observation that the same community which [rightfully in his view] condemns any treatment for changing sexual orientation as “insane” and always ineffective endorses treatment for changing sex, which is at least [my qualification] as “elemental” as orientation?
And that is why no one would ever order anything other than a “double” in a pub or a bar here. Though given the truth of Jonah’s observation about how much this costs it is also true that most of us will only order that double when someone else is paying – or are drunk enough not to notice the expense until the next day. Otherwise we stick to the overpriced beer and avoid drinking in hotels.
Just occurred to me, as you frequently complain about your acronym.
GLOP isn’t accurate. Why not go for GLAP ?
Cream loved it and what can Clapton do wrong ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3GIQ86eu6c
I’m So Glap
Bring Deroy in once and awhile, he’ll love it.