Comments on: On the boards

By: Paul Marks

Paul Marks — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:30:38 +0000

It is not just the Soviet Union – it is any attack on socialism.

For example, I heard on the BBC radio today an attack on North Korea – accept that it was not an attack on socialism.

Not at all – everything is the fault of a bad man called Kim and his son (the Great Leader and the Dear Leader). No doubt they are “neo cons” in league with big business.

I hope this snowstorm clears soon – the msm does try my temper.

By: poppa india

poppa india — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:12:59 +0000

I wasn’t too surprised about the Mamet “conversion”. A few years ago I think I saw him in an “I’m the NRA” ad, around the same time he published a story in Sports Afield about a trip to Vermont for a muzzle-loading deer hunt.

By: Ted Schuerzinger

Ted Schuerzinger — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:38:58 +0000

By the FT critic's standard, Arthur Miller's The Crucible should never have been premiered, let alone shown today. It was about events 250 years previously.

By: CrisisMaven

CrisisMaven — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:40:36 +0000

There is an interesting comparison between Hitler's, Roosevelt's and Mussolini's economic policies and the similarities are quite striking. This is also the reason why the US eventually will fail alongside China.

By: Rob H

Rob H — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:05:06 +0000

“I am hard-pressed to see an instance where the intervention of the government led to much beyond sorrow”

or as Dr. Johnson said:

“How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.”