Sherry Chandler

Nascar with accents? Frank Deford is hard-nosed about the Olympics. I can hardly believe I’m linking to a sports commentator but I learned something from Mr. Deford this week. The torch run was started by the Nazis. Who knew?

Of interest to Kentucky voters, NPR asks What’s taking a bite out of Atlantic City casinos? Also Racinos. I leave it to you to decide whether this was an opportunity lost or a bullet dodged.

The Greatest Silence, a chilling interview with Lisa Jackson. Official site here. Rape as a weapon or war and genocide is as old as the Old Testament. In Deuteronomy 20, for example:

13And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:

14But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

It was also used by the Greeks. It was over the services of a woman prisoner that Achilles was sulking in his tent, after all. I personally think it will go on as long as we have war. Men, guns, and testosterone add up to rape and, in this film as in other reports I’ve read and heard, men sometimes use their guns to commit rape. It’s one of the reasons war is not a satisfactory instrument for foreign policy.

It is also one of the reasons women need to stand up against misogyny in all of its forms, whether it manifests itself in popular culture, in our Democratic primary, or among our own armed forces and military contractors.

Joan Walsh says Thank you, Rush Limbaugh! and invites certain people to desist from reading Salon. Via

Go watch this Al Gore video posted by Chet Scoville at Shakesville.

I think this is probably Geronimo, certainly not Tecumseh.

Tecumseh (Jay Silverheels) vies with Stephen Ruddle (Jon Hall) for the love of Laura (Christine Larson) in the 1952 film Brave Warrior. The triangle is resolved at the Battle of Tippecanoe. I think we may safely conclude that this movie, which nets 4.3 stars on the IMDb, has little connection to reality but it might be of interest to watch, just to hear Jay Silverheels say more than “unh.” The NYTimes says the role is “well-played.” It might be fun, too, to see Michael Ansara as Tecumseh’s villainous brother, The Prophet. I loved Jon Hall as Ramar of the Jungle.