A bellwether of sorts

The son of William F. Buckley has decided—shock!—to vote for a Democrat.  Let me be the latest conservative/libertarian/whatever to leap onto the Barack Obama bandwagon. It’s a good thing my dear old mum and pup are no longer alive. They’d cut off my allowance. Sorry, Dad, I’m Voting for Obama – The Daily Beast .

Portrait of Jennie

For no particular reason, this morning I watched Joseph Cotten and Jennifer Jones in Portrait of Jennie. It was romantic in a way that few movies are any more. This is quite possibly because they leave sex out of it totally. You have a swirl of motion and emotion in the storm at the lighthouse, Continue reading Portrait of Jennie