Five Quick Things: The Iliad Over Nolan’s The Odyssey
I’m just here for long enough to check this box, and then it’s back to finishing the first draft of The Necessary Men. It’s Just a Movie.I’m not exactly sure when we as conservatives were conscripted into the Christopher Nolan fan club. The fact is that whether Robert Oppenheimer was a communist or not really didn’t make much of a difference; it was on his watch that the Soviets stole our nuclear secrets, and for that reason he was rightly pushed aside as the head of our nuclear program.
- ▪I’m just here for long enough to check this box, and then it’s back to finishing the first draft of The Necessary Men.
- ▪It’s Just a Movie.I’m not exactly sure when we as conservatives were conscripted into the Christopher Nolan fan club.
- ▪The fact is that whether Robert Oppenheimer was a communist or not really didn’t make much of a difference; it was on his watch that the Soviets stole our nuclear secrets, and for that reason he was rightly pushed aside as the head of our n
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I’m just here for long enough to check this box, and then it’s back to finishing the first draft of The Necessary Men. Marco Rubio made that a little harder this week by releasing the bombshell State Department report on Cuba and its export of communist revolution all over the place, including here; I’m not going to get into that in the 5QT, because after having read it I decided I’m going to do a longer thing on it this weekend.So look forward to that, I guess, though it definitely won’t be a happy column.And let’s get this started/over with, depending on your perspective.1. Stop That Fighting. It’s Just a Movie.I’m not exactly sure when we as conservatives were conscripted into the Christopher Nolan fan club.
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