From Slate: No. One cannot just go around reading the books of friends and acquaintances. The exceptions to this rule are few and obvious—looking at a
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[youtube=://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgAo1kj-duU&w=560&h=315] My thanks to Larry Dahlke for providing the voice. There’s no way I could have sold this the way he does.
One of the things that surprised me when I started researching the Nazi police apparatus for Summer of Long Knives was how small the Gestapo really was:
In 2007, Slate inaugurated the A Fine Whine column, in which a Slate writer lets fly at some (usually petty) annoyance for a couple of pages. It
Yesterday, I talked about the importance of ernest goofiness in the great bad movie. Today, I read the introduction to Greg Sestero’s inside account of
Frick was many things to the Nazi party. As one of their earliest members of parliament he drafted legislation which would eventually become the Nuremberg
Over on Facebook, someone responded to my posts about Birdemic: Shock and Terror, with a request for my top ten bad movies of all time. For
From yesterday’s review of Dismantle the Sun. (Thanks, Indie Books R Us): Every-so-often, a book comes along that I can’t put down. I don’t want to rhapsodize
Like all the most ambitious people, Reinhard Heydrich was a collector of titles: SS Obergruppenfuehrer, Head of the SD, Head of the Prussian Gestapo, Head
A few weeks ago I made a plea for better written spam, because if we can’t get rid of spam and consign its manufacturers to