Books, Books, and More Books
Scrapbook Books, Books, and More Books Last week, The Scrapbook noted (with quasi-parental pride) books on war and history newly published by some of our distinguished contributors. Here—with...
...NoVa v. RoVa_ In yet another gaffe, Republican senator George Allen last week referred to his constituents in rural Virginia as gun-loving, trailer-dwelling, neo-Con-federate crystal meth addicts...
...18, 2006 Help Wanted_ The Weekly Standard is seeking an advertising account executive who will sell pages in the magazine and space on our website, weeklystan-dard.com, and in our weekly email newsletter...
...With a deepening dependency of individuals and governments on gambling, we are gambling with our national character, forgetting that character is destiny...
...Are there social costs from all this...
...might be considered a mixed blessing...
...Furthermore, taxation of online poker and other gambling could generate billions for governments...
...RoVa has Cracker Barrel...
...In the rest of Virginia "a lab is the family meth business...
...Conservative elder statesman George F. "Statecraft as Soulcraft" Will threw a hissy fit in his Newsweek column last week over the (arguably redundant) legislation passed by the 109th Congress banning most Internet gambling...
...More on the Jews: Drew Friedman, creator of some of the finest illustrations to have graced these pages, sends us a charming and whimsical collection of illustrations of Old Jewish Comedians...
...This person will manage our online sales effort and be an essential part of our ad sales team, which includes representatives in Chicago, San Francisco, and Toronto...
...Republicans in Congress may be forgiven for thinking that with his latest outburst, Will has cast them as Charlie Brown and himself as Lucy, gleefully pulling the football away just as they kicked...
...More on America: The AEI Press, our upstairs neighbors, give us Walter Berns's Democracy and the Constitution, a series of learned and trenchant essays from one of our leading constitutional thinkers—actually, one of our leading thinkers, period...
...No, wait...
...The latter passage is from George F. Will, circa 1993...
...NoVa has Crate & Barrel...
...Nicholas Antongiavanni's The Suit: A Machiavellian Approach to Men's Style, is a suitable tribute to Machiavelli...
...How preposterous...
...always of interest to The Scrapbook, some of whose best friends . . . ) and provides an interesting, idiosyncratic discussion of the American Jewish community and its political affiliations and lobbying efforts...
...Next time liberals wonder why they can't make inroads with rural voters, we refer them to Exhibit A. ? Wonder What He Did Wednesday Night ?? "N Torth Koreans carrying torches _L >1 march as they mark the 80th anniversary of the Down with Imperialism Union, a group purportedly founded by the late North Korean leader Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang Tuesday night...
...Gambling inflames the lust for wealth without work, weakening a perishable American belief—that the moral worth of a person is gauged not by how much money he makes but by how he makes his money...
...Your holiday shopping should now be complete—wait, throw in the paperback edition of The Weekly Standard: A Reader, some of the best of our first ten years, and you'll have everything a reader could want...
...But there's an older, deeper view of this subject that deserves a hearing...
...Excuse us...
...It was once ably expounded by another conservative columnist: If life is, as a poet said, a sum of habits disturbed by a few thoughts, we should think clearly about those habits we deliberately develop...
...Here—with equal pride, we hasten to assure both sets of contributors—is the second installment of new books from our extended editorial family...
...In northern Virginia "a lab is the family dog," he said...
...Those wacky Republicans on Capitol Hill, he sniffed, were advancing a "mother-hen agenda" that he termed "Prohibition II...
...In NoVa, they hope the souffle will...
...Besides, the problems . . . of criminal involvement in gambling, and of underage and addictive gamblers, can be best dealt with by legalization and regulation...
...All in all, a more-than-competent exposition of the libertarian point of view—although from that same point of view those billions for governments...
...This is a unique book...
...And if you're not...
...Goes with Epstein like port goes with Stilton...
...In RoVa, a 'fur piece' is a unit of distance...
...The Washington Post reacted with predictable outrage, calling Allen's remarks "an ugly stereotype...
...But who wants to live in a society that protects the weak-willed by criminalizing cheeseburgers...
...Lots, beginning with the ruinous—to health, work and families—excesses of compulsive gamblers...
...In RoVa they listen to the NRA...
...In NoVa a 'fur piece' is something a woman wears on a special occasion...
...Consider the rapid spread of legal gambling...
...In an item in the paper's Style section, the witty Post stylists limned the differences between northern Virginia (NoVa)—whose residents "tend to be much more liberal than those in the rest of the state"—and the rest of Virginia (RoVa...
...If you think you are up to the challenge of this job, email a cover letter with resume to Associate Publisher Peter Dunn, pdunn@weeklystandard...
...It was the Washington Post that painted Virginians outside the Beltway as mouth-breathing hillbillies...
...Okay, that wasn't technically another columnist...
...Who is more eminent than Alexis de Tocqueville...
...And some people eat too many cheeseburgers...
...And what better guide to Tocqueville—"Democracy's Guide"—than Epstein...
...Frequent contributor Stephen Schwartz meanwhile asks, Is It Good for the Jews...
...We Don't Need No Stinkin' Soulcraft Here is a telling sign of how disenchanted with the Republican party some conservatives have grown...
...Granted," he wrote, some people gamble too much...
...Among other distinctions: "In NoVa, they listen to NPR...
...Go out and buy it anyway...
...Photo caption, Great Falls Tribune, Oct...
...In RoVa, they hope the South will rise again...
...In NoVa . . . when people speak of a 'trailer' they mean a movie ad, and in RoVa 'sprawl' is what you do on the couch after Sunday dinner...
...It wasn't Allen who said this...
...Contributor Larry Miller (we think of him for his peerless Daily Standard meditations—others might know him from TV and movies) is out with Spoiled Rotten America—a series of beautifully crafted, penetrating and funny, essays...
...Top candidates for this position will be personable, reliable, organized, and—not least—love the thrill of closing a sale...
...Max Beerbohm would have termed this "the young self meets the old self...
...Contributing editor Joseph Epstein, whose productivity is both goad and inspiration to The Scrapbook, is about to grace us with an elegant contribution to HarperCollins's "Eminent Lives" series...
...Anton-giovanni" is the pen name of Michael Anton, a valued contributor to this magazine before stints of government service, during which he found time to craft this deft commentary on Machia-velli's Prince, which is also a useful guide to how to dress...
...If, like The Scrapbook, you're a fan of, say, Rodney Dangerfield—ne Jacob Cohen—go out and buy it...
...Gambling can be a benign entertainment, but it can become, for individuals and perhaps for a society, a way of attempting to evade the stern fact that (as Henry James said) "life is effort, unremittingly repeated...
Vol. 12 • October 2006 • No. 7
