Look. Let’s get this straight. Amy Chua is nuts. In China her book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, is called U.S. Mom because her maternal oddities are regarded as symptomatic of a western spiritual and psychic malaise. That her neuroses are being marketed as typical of the Chinese people as a whole (as if […]
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Poor old Christina Aguilera, booed for fluffing a line of Star Spangled Banner at the opening of Sunday’s Superbowl in Texas. The BBC reports on the offending line: The singer should have sung: “O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?” but repeated an earlier line with a slight variation. … Instead of the
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I can’t be sure, but I think I heard cartoonist Martin Rowson refer to the late Labour MP Tom Driberg, in one of his anecdotes last night, as a ‘fellationist’. He might have said ‘fallacionist’ but as it’s Rowson doing the telling, I’m assuming it was the former. It takes a special kind of genius
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