Mark Steyn: According to Script

National Review Online ^ | April 11, 2005 issue | Mark Steyn

[Tax-chick]

is Ancient Iraq by Georges Roux

Thanks ... I'll look for that in the library and on the Internet. In the library in Tulsa, there was a series of videos about archaelogical sites, with footage of the actual digs plus computer recreations of what it might have looked like "new." Bill reminded me about them today, and I'll be searching the library catalogs here.

There is so much neat historical stuff out there. Hopefully the next 20 years or so will bring us good-quality video, with source-document backup, etc., on much of it. Most of us just can't travel to these places! I spent 14 years of Spanish class seeing videos about Spain, Mexico, and South America ... but I'll probably never see any of it in Real Life!

[Constitution Day]

I'm positive you'll find it. My (2nd ed) is copyright 1980.

There's really some remarkable stuff out there on the 'net.
I had quite a bit of it bookmarked until a recent computer crash. :(

Another book that I pulled off the shelf is The Ancient Near East.
It's an anthology of translated texts and pictures of artifacts.

Hittite, Egyptian, Sumerian, Akkadian and other cultures are represented.

Hope you can find & enjoy both books!

[AmishDude]

Please tell me you wouldn't love to see Steyn as UN Sec Gen? It would drive them INSANE!

But although Steyn is clear and lucid on TV, it doesn't compare to his writing.

[irv]

Tis one's so good I can't do my usual thing of picking out a line to comment on. Steyn is the best!

[zoyd]

The word "bomber" suggests homicide in and of itself. That's what bombers do. The lead will also detail the deaths and injuries, so 'homicide' gets redundant, no? Many bombers do not blow themselves up in trying to blow other stuff up, therefore "suicide bomber" is accurately descriptive, while "homicide bomber" is redundant, and still does not identify the fact that the bomber himself blew up.

"Homicide bomber" is just right-wing PC garbage, IMHO. It's like asking me to spell 'woman' as 'womyn'.

[SquirrelKing]

Geeze I hate the press.

Hey, now WE'RE the press. =)

[finnigan2]

"He has only published one book as of yet, right?"

- Go to www.marksteyn.com where you will find, under "books" that Steyn has published nine books to date. While some are on his other passion, showbiz and personalities, there is plenty of writing on world politics to keep anybody happy.

[Eurotwit]

Thanks...

marksteyn.com is now bookmarked :-)

Cheers.

[Neophyte]

Can't he be a Senator or President and still write a column? Is that too much to ask?

Well, it looks I've been a little bit selfish... as a foreigner, I wouldn't benefit directly from Steyn being a Senator... :-) and I would like to see him committed entirely to the task of my (and yours) intellectual indulgency.

One more thought: Arnie is now a governor. Can you imagine him to don Terminator's gear while in office?

[Psycho_Bunny]

So the moral of this story is "If you're in a hole, keep digging"?

[Neophyte]

Please tell me you wouldn't love to see Steyn as UN Sec Gen?

Hell, no! He is too brilliant to be wasted on that bunch of Euro and Third World thugs.

It would be lost/lost situation:

If there are no swiping changes to the whole organisation, even Steyn wouldn't be sufficient to change their ways (or, as my Granny'd put it, you don't establish a new brothel with old whores).

On the other hand, if the UN is repaired from top to bottom, why to bother Steyn and detract him from creating his marvelous columns?

[Constitution Day]

Apparently so!

[spodefly]

He is good.

BTTT

[BOBTHENAILER]

Great detective work.

[BOBTHENAILER]

It took an Australian blogger, Arthur Chrenkoff, to poke deep down into the story and emerge with the most salient fact of this bloody toll — that of the 45 dead, 29 were “insurgents” themselves.

That is an interesting part of this story.

[Grampa Dave]

Yahoo and other internet sites often go to great lengths to hide the fact that many of their headline stories are AP stories.

You have to keep going back into their references on the story and original links to find out that the story was an AP story. Then you may have to go back several more links to discover the name of the writer. That happened with Thomas Hays, the AP liar re the cheering when GW said the Clintoon had been admitted to the hospital.

[SWake]

It took an Australian blogger, Arthur Chrenkoff, to poke deep down into the story

Does anyone else read Chrenkoff? I heard him interviewed by Dennis Prager in March. I enjoyed reading his take on the news of the day. Especially his "Good News from Iraq" and "Good News from Afghanistan" posts.

http://chrenkoff.blogspot.com/