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1 Mar 2019, 7:15 am
I hope you're with me, 84% of the way into Tom Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities. [read post]
28 Feb 2019, 2:43 pm
Time to roll out another passage from Tom Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities," which some of you are reading along with me. [read post]
24 Feb 2019, 1:39 pm
For the new installment of the "Bonfire" project — where we're reading passages from Tom Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities" — I offer this, from Kindle Location 4,662:“But you don’t live in that jungle, Sherman, and you never have. [read post]
23 Feb 2019, 4:30 pm
For the new installment of the "Bonfire" project — where we're reading passages from Tom Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities" — I offer this, from Kindle Location 3222:Nick Stopping said he had dinner the other night at the home of Stropp, the investment banker, on Park Avenue, and Stropp’s four-year-old daughter, by his second wife, came into the dining room pulling a toy wagon, upon which was a fresh human turd — yes, a turd! [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 1:54 pm
Some of you are reading Tom Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities" along with me. [read post]
19 Feb 2019, 6:04 am
… The thwarting of congressional intent to fund a vanity project that not only will fail to safeguard national security, but is positioned to cause significant harm to the public safety, public fisc, environment, and well-being of Plaintiff States’ residents, cries out for judicial intervention. [read post]
19 Feb 2019, 4:15 am
” They added that the government’s defiance of Congress’s refusal to provide money for “a vanity project” will not result in any protection of national security but will “cause significant harm to the public safety, public fisc, environment and well-being” of the people living in the 16 states. [read post]
18 Feb 2019, 5:50 pm
They rose to their feet and cheered when she denounced “his vanity project,” the wall on the southern border with Mexico.... [read post]
16 Feb 2019, 5:36 pm
... you can lurch and talk to yourself all night.And remember to use the Althouse Portal to Amazon buy your copy of "Bonfire of the Vanities" or whatever else you might need keep to keep going in this crazy world. [read post]
16 Feb 2019, 6:59 am
From Kindle location 320 in Tom Wolfe's "The Bonfire of the Vanities," this is the second entry in The "Bonfire" Project, where we talk about one short passage of continuous text:All at once Sherman was aware of a figure approaching him on the sidewalk, in the wet black shadows of the town houses and the trees. [read post]
15 Feb 2019, 5:25 am
[Vanity Fair] * The Supreme Court's assault on the bar is unsurprisingly spreading. [read post]
14 Feb 2019, 12:23 pm
"] Love his nonfiction and have read and reread much of it, but I went through a long nonfiction period before changing my ways about a year ago....A lot of other comments began praising "Bonfire of the Vanities," and then I said:Let's all read "Bonfire of the Vanities. [read post]
13 Feb 2019, 3:03 pm
“After licence plate denied, Sask. man opts for giant ‘ASSMAN’ decal; After SGI denied his latest request for an ‘ASSMAN’ vanity licence plate, the Melville man had an oversized decal designed to replicate the plate in question”: Alex MacPherson of The Saskatoon StarPhoenix has this report. [read post]
11 Feb 2019, 12:15 pm
.'"Writes my son John, on his blog, linking to "Kamala Harris says she smoked marijuana in college, calls for legalization" (ABC News).This reminds me of why I changed my mind about legalization in March 2015 as a result of reading something written by Paul Johnson about Henrik Ibsen:There was one aspect of Ibsen’s vanity which verged on the ludicrous... [read post]
1 Feb 2019, 2:27 pm
Much of the explanation, I think, is sheer vanity. [read post]
31 Jan 2019, 6:25 am
Preparing for a vanity run as an independent. [read post]
29 Jan 2019, 5:28 pm
Kamala Harris, have called the Trump barrier proposal a "medieval vanity project. [read post]
29 Jan 2019, 9:52 am
Said Kamala Harris, disparaging the wall as a "medieval vanity project. [read post]
29 Jan 2019, 3:49 am
Is this a vanity run by a billionaire, which would not be the first time that happened? [read post]
23 Jan 2019, 5:37 am
[Vanity Fair] * Justice will prevail... at least until the end of the month: The federal judiciary is still clinging to life amid the government shutdown, and the Administrative Office of the U.S. [read post]
