This news release from Signature Theatre in Arlington just became available about 35 minutes ago:Signature Theatre to Honor Stephen Sondheim at Gala Benefit in April Theatre to pay tribute to composer by establishing annual ‘Sondheim Award’ …
[Rick Sincere News and Thoughts] This Just In: Signature Announces Sondheim Award
Posted by Rick Sincere in October 7th 2008 under: Signature Theatre, Sondheim, aggregated, musical theatre
Comments Off
Comments Off
According to a story in The Hollywood Reporter, the 1970s Friday-night hit from ABC, The Partridge Family, is being resurrected by NBC.Nellie Andreeva writes: “The Partridge Family” has found a new network home at NBC.The Peacock has picked up a cont…
[Rick Sincere News and Thoughts] Dear Leader, Yes We Can!
Posted by Rick Sincere in October 2nd 2008 under: Korea, Obama, Reason Foundation, Videos, YouTube, aggregated, campaigns, children, presidents, songs, youth
Comments Off
No comment is necessary, except for crediting Reason.tv with this great mashup celebrating the best (worst?) of Obama-sycophancy.This video is also available on YouTube, where it will live on and on and on as a reminder to these children about what the…
The U.S. Senate has approved, by a vote of 74 to 25, a bailout bill. The House of Representatives voted down a similar bill on Monday by a narrow margin, and returns Thursday to consider another version (or versions).Jake Tapper of ABC News reports:Th…
[Rick Sincere News and Thoughts] The Dangers of Voting
Posted by Rick Sincere in October 2nd 2008 under: Canadian content, aggregated, drunk driving, elections, headlines
Comments Off
Since I drive around a lot on Election Day — moving from precinct to precinct, visiting each of Charlottesville’s eight polling places, plus the Central Absentee Precinct and the Office of Voter Registration and Elections — it was a shock to find. ou…
[Rick Sincere News and Thoughts] Do as O Says, Not as O Does?
Posted by Rick Sincere in October 2nd 2008 under: Congress, Economics, aggregated, campaigns, candidates, presidents
Comments Off
The Obama for President campaign is running a TV ad in Virginia that highlights the policy differences between Barack Obama and his principal opponent, Republican nominee John McCain, on the issue of equal pay for equal work.Politico, the newspaper for…
The audacity of the Bush administration knows no bounds.Brian Wingfield and Josh Zumbrun report on Forbes.com:In fact, some of the most basic details, including the $700 billion figure Treasury would use to buy up bad debt, are fuzzy. “It’s not based …
[Rick Sincere News and Thoughts] Just the Facts, Not the Meme, Ma’am
Posted by Rick Sincere in September 25th 2008 under: Business, Economics, History, aggregated, newspapers
Comments Off
Colbert I. King is a man of impressive credentials. Before becoming a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post, he has been a Treasury Department official, World Bank executive, and vice president at what was once known as Riggs Bank.S…
[Rick Sincere News and Thoughts] Craig Ferguson Gets It
Posted by Rick Sincere in September 25th 2008 under: Bush 43, Business, Economics, Humor, aggregated, capitalism, liberty, television
Comments Off
Late-night chat-show host Craig Ferguson may have been a U.S. citizen for less than a year, but he has a more profound understanding of the spirit of democratic capitalism than any three dozen professional pundits on Fox, CNN, or MSNBC.The last few min…
[Rick Sincere News and Thoughts] This Just In: Water Is Wet
Posted by Rick Sincere in September 24th 2008 under: Celebrities, aggregated, gay, lesbians, surveys
Comments Off
People magazine will reveal on its web site tomorrow that American Idol’s most famous runner-up, Clay Aiken, is gay.The shock and surprise with which this news is being met is… well, it isn’t.Reuters reports:After years of dodging questions, former “…
Lion Appointed To Detroit Zoological Society’s Board The article, from a publication called Zoo and Aquarium Visitor, explains:At the annual meeting of …
[Rick Sincere News and Thoughts] Constitution Day, 2008
Posted by Rick Sincere in September 21st 2008 under: Congress, Governor, History, Montpelier, Supreme Court, Virginia, aggregated, constitution, law, photoblog, video
Comments Off
This past Wednesday was Constitution Day. On September 17, 1787, members of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia gave their final approval to the document they had toiled over for the previous summer, sending it to the states for ratification…
[Rick Sincere News and Thoughts] Redpath to Liveblog Today
Posted by Rick Sincere in September 19th 2008 under: Libertarian Party, Virginia, aggregated, blogging, campaigns, candidates
Comments Off
Although he was excluded from the Fairfax Chamber of Commerce debate hosted to showcase his opponents, Jim Gilmore and Mark Warner, the Libertarian nominee for the U.S. Senate from Virginia, Bill Redpath, will have an opportunity to interact with voter…
[Rick Sincere News and Thoughts] Steve Forbes for Treasury Secretary
Posted by Rick Sincere in September 19th 2008 under: 1990s, Economics, Metro Herald, Politics, Steve Forbes, aggregated, money
Comments Off
Regardless of who wins the presidential election on November 4 — whether Bob Barr, John McCain, or Barack Obama — when the new president takes office in January 2009, he could do much worse than to name magazine publisher Steve Forbes as his Secretar…
[Rick Sincere News and Thoughts] Talking About Voting Improvements
Posted by Rick Sincere in September 16th 2008 under: Rob Schilling, aggregated, charlottesville, election law, elections, radio, voters, voting machines
Comments Off
Monday night, the Charlottesville City Council approved a request from the Office of Voter Registration and Elections to appropriate funds for the purchase of new voting equipment to supplement the Hart Intercivic eSlate machines that we have been usin…
[Rick Sincere News and Thoughts] ‘Dr. Cook’s Garden’ Blooms in Arlington
Posted by Rick Sincere in September 12th 2008 under: American Century, Metro Herald, aggregated, theatre
Comments Off
On Wednesday evening, Tim Hulsey and I saw a new production of a 40-year-old play, Dr. Cook’s Garden, at the American Century Theater in Arlington. Here is my review, prepared for The Metro Herald (and likely to run in next Friday’s print edition):‘…
[Rick Sincere News and Thoughts] Fidel Castro, Humanitarian?
Posted by Rick Sincere in September 12th 2008 under: Africa, Cuba, Humor, aggregated, cannibalism, human rights
Comments Off
Agence France-Presse reports:South Africa Thursday said it has given its 2008 humanitarian award to former Cuban president Fidel Castro for his contributions to “humankind beyond boundaries.”Castro, who turned 82 Wednesday, becomes the first non-Africa…
[Rick Sincere News and Thoughts] Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff
Posted by Rick Sincere in September 11th 2008 under: Africa, Britain, Photography, aggregated, human rights, liberty
Comments Off
Here is more evidence that the British have gone balmy, and that the traditional English values of privacy and personal autonomy are no longer being respected:Park wardens have been ordered to stop and interrogate anyone who is not accompanied by child…
You can’t make this stuff up.David Ivanovich reports in the Houston Chronicle today:The Interior Department’s Inspector General, who has been investigating the U.S. Minerals Management Service’s Royalty-In-Kind program, said government employees who we…
Nearly seven years ago, in an interview with journalist Rex Wockner, U.S. Representative Barney Frank (D-Mass.) had this to say about Republicans and gay issues:Until fairly recently, the Democrats thought they were caught between the anti-gay feelings…
[Rick Sincere News and Thoughts] Buena Vista Social Club
Posted by Rick Sincere in September 7th 2008 under: Democrats, Libertarian Party, Politics, Republicans, Virginia, aggregated, campaigns, candidates, holidays
Comments Off
Last Monday, I drove down to the small city of Buena Vista, Virginia, for the traditional kick-off to the political season in the Commonwealth: the Buena Vista Labor Day Parade.This was my first visit to Buena Vista, although I had often read about th…
[Rick Sincere News and Thoughts] Fall Fashions
Posted by Rick Sincere in September 7th 2008 under: aggregated, camp, campaigns, candidates, fashion, gay, irony
Comments Off
Maybe I’m going out on a limb here, but the camp value of this new line of McCain-Palin campaign memorabilia might just make these items the most popular ironic fashion statement in gay nightclubs this autumn.Here’s an example:The design is available i…
[Rick Sincere News and Thoughts] How to Embarrass Virginia Republicans
Posted by Rick Sincere in September 2nd 2008 under: Log Cabin, Republicans, Virginia, aggregated, gay issues
Comments Off
The delegation of Virginia Republicans at the convention in St. Paul has been getting both good and bad coverage from media outside of the Old Dominion.A sympathetic report aired on NPR’s “All Things Considered” on Monday, in which anchor Robert Siegel…
Movie trailers will never be the same:Don LaFontaine, the man who provided the sonorous voice for more than 5,000 movie trailers, died Monday at age 68. LaFontaine died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications from a collapsed lun…
[Rick Sincere News and Thoughts] Warner Refuses and Redpath Steps Up
Posted by Rick Sincere in August 29th 2008 under: Debate, Libertarian Party, Virginia, aggregated, campaigns, elections, libertarians
Comments Off
Former Governor Mark Warner, basking in the limelight of having delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in Denver on Tuesday, now refuses to debate his opponents in the race for the open U.S. Senate seat in Virginia.Conseque…
Subscribes To Feeds
Bearing Drift Podcast
-
- McCain-Obama #2 Debate open-thread, live-blog, poll and post-debate podcast
- Special Edition. Virginia Politics On-Demand. Del. Chris Saxman. McCain-Palin Rallies in Virginia.
- VPOD. Episode 41. Oct. 1, 2008
- VPOD Episode 40. Brent Mckenzie, Candidate, Virginia Beach School Board.
- Episode 39. Virginia Politics On-Demand. Virginia’s McCain Campaign Co-Chair, Del. Chris Saxman. Sept. 17, 2008.
Blogroll
-
- badrose
- Bearing Drift :: Virginia Politics and Podcasts
- CatHouse Chat
- Conservativa
- Crystal Clear Conservative
- Deo Vindice
- Good Sense
- J’s Notes
- Leslie Carbone
- On The Spot
- Rappahannock Red
- Reagan´s GOP
- Rick Sincere News and Thoughts
- Scott’s Morning Brew
- ShaunKenney.com
- Sic Semper Tyrannis - Politics, Sports, Religion, Culture and all things Virginia
- SkepticalObservor
- The Contemporary Conservative
- The right-wing liberal
- The Write Side of My Brain
- Virginia Conservative’s Weblog
- Virginia Virtucon