Category: The Dish

The editors of the New York Sun wrote this editorial. For some reason, it’s dated three days too late.
 

A reader directs me to the more relevant dialogue between De Niro’s character and Pacino’s:

MCCAULEY: A guy told me one time – don’t let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out in on 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.  Now if you’re on me and you got to move when I move, how do you expect to keep a… a marriage?

HANNA: That’s an interesting point. What are you — a monk?

MCCAULEY: I have a woman.

HANNA: What do you tell her?

MCCAULEY: I tell her I’m a salesman.

HANNA: So, then, if you spot me comin’ round that corner, you just gonna walk out on this woman? Without sayin’ goodbye?

MCCAULEY: That’s the discipline.

HANNA: That’s pretty vacant.

MCCAULEY: Yeah. It is what it is. It’s that or we both better go do somethin’ else, pal.

HANNA: I don’t know how to do anythin’ else.

MCCAULEY: Neither do I.

HANNA: I don’t much want to either.

MCCAULEY: Neither do I…

All aboard! It starts in 1890. (Hat tip: Speculative Bubble.)

A reader writes:

Reading your post made me recall the song "You’re an Embarrassment" by the London group Madness back in the 90s – lyrics here. I liked the song but never knew what it was about, but they had the band on a local London radio programme last month and Suggs wrote it about a white female cousin of his who became pregnant with a mixed-race baby. Did the feelings last long he was asked. No, they disappeared immediately the new white grandparents saw the new-born baby, who apparently is now in college and doing fine with a lot of affection from all the family. Which backs up what you say. Nice song too.

Robert A. George examines Rudy Giuliani’s position on tax-payer funded abortions.

An eleven-year-old, among others, is accused of blasphemy.

He actually beat her in primary dollars. That’s a big deal.

A reader writes:

Don’t forget to add ‘Heat‘ to that list: two grown men (Pacino and De Niro) abandoning the women in their lives to play hide and go seek with guns. And in the final moment, after Deniro has been fatally wounded, they hold hands and revel in each others heroism: " … not half bad" says Pacino. "Pretty good your own self" says De Niro. Perfect.

"I don’t mind that some of my conservative friends are for Giuliani, but I do wish they weren’t such cheap dates," – Ramesh Ponnuru, reeling from the Giuliani abortion news. I guess there are actually two parties of death now, aren’t there?

What to make of this? A deal? Money quote:

Ahmadinejad’s announcement came after Iran’s state media reported that an Iranian envoy would be allowed to meet five Iranians detained by US forces in northern Iraq in January. Another Iranian diplomat, Jalal Sharafi, separately seized two months ago by uniformed gunmen in Iraq, was released and returned on Tuesday to Tehran.

But the president denied there was any connection, saying, "If we had wanted to exchange Jalal Sharafi with the rest (the Britons) we would have exchanged him for 100,000. But we pardoned them." He said the decision was "based on humanitarian considerations."

The agreement to give Tehran access to the five captured Iranians in Iraq has not been confirmed.