What Kind of "Inspector" is Hillary Clinton? (w/Poll)
I was watching 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' earlier tonight on MSNBC and he was interviewing Dana Milbank, reporter for the Washington Post. They were discussing Hillary Clinton's claim that...
View ArticleFor YOU Chicken Littles - Les Misbarack
the last couple of weeks were rough, all Palin all the time, via Sully, the latest and greatest work from Ultimate Improv Les MisbarackWhatever...
View ArticleNovember 3, 2008
On November 3, sometime in the evening, when everyone in the campaign office is tired, drained, a little saddened that their work is about to come to an end, yet excited by the challenges ahead and the...
View ArticleElection eve prayers
As we sprint to the end of this marathon campaign, it is well worth taking a moment to reflect back on where we started, on how far we've come, and on the judgment day that stands before us. It doesn't...
View ArticleOne Day More...
OK, I won't go so far as to say that this diary is substantive. But to be honest, I'm sick of substantive.I've spent the last six months jumping at every poll number, chewing my fingernails to the...
View ArticleDo You Hear the People Sing?
Inspiration hits at the strangest of times.BARACK OBAMA: Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men? It is the music of a people Who will not be slaves again! When the beating of your...
View Articlespotlight on prisons, special Les Miserables issue
I found out from new pioneer this evening that there are all these great YouTube videos out (and have been for some time) of the Les Miserables Broadway play.We'll start out with "Work Song" and go...
View ArticleDo You Hear The People Sing?
Would that we could set Occupy Wall Street to music.Music has power, and passion. Music stirs the soul and when I die, music is one of the things I shall miss the most ... that and Krispy Kreme.
View ArticleLes Miserables - One More Term
The song One Day More from "Les Miserables" has been reworked into One More Term in this video that should go viral.
View ArticleIncredible Song, One Term More--2012 Les Miserables Election Edition--At the...
(To the tune of One Day More). Every movement needs an anthem; every worker needs her song. So to spur his reelection, I must pass Barack's call along.....Sometimes the smallest moment revolutionizes a...
View Article"Les Miz" Mania: The Early Stages
Hi everyone. This is "Annie West's" Dad with another guest post from Annie, now 12, who previously graced these pixels with Books I've been reading,Humans, Good or Bad? Part I and The Hunger Games:...
View ArticleMitt Romney: "I Dreamed A Dream"(with apologies to 'Les Mis' fans)
One of my all-time favorite musicals will be going to the big screen next month. Les Miserables, based on the novel by Victor Hugo, features some of the most remarkable songs ever composed for Broadway...
View ArticleLes Miserables... the floor is yours
Really not much of a diary; I have not seen the new film and nothing yet about it has been posted on Kos...
View ArticleSaturday Night Loser's Club, Vol. CCCLV: The Miserables Edition
The classic Q&A exchange when looking at a famous book that has been adapted into a film goes, as you all know it:Q: "Did you read the book?" A: "No, but I saw the movie." If there is one current...
View ArticleLes Miserables parody: Speaker of the House
Lots of things going on this weekend. Bowl season the end of the year. A film version of the musical Les Miserables is now playing in theaters (unfortunately, none of the lead actors in the film...
View ArticleOne More Day, Prepare for a Better World
A wrecked ship being dragged into a drydock by prisoners drenched in rain and seawater serves at the spectacle to open the motion picture Les Miserable. Themes of rebellion, justice and greed run...
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Why is "Zero Dark Thirty" being unfairly singled out?
Tom the Dancing Bug.BE THE FIRST ON YOUR BLOCK to see Tom the Dancing Bug every week! Members of the elite and prestigious INNER HIVE get the comic in their inboxes at least a day before publication...
View ArticleOscar buzz: How Hollywood has politics right and Washington has it all wrong
When it comes to politics, Washington can learn a lot from Hollywood.The 85th Annual Academy Awards announced their nominees for Oscar Gold recently and it appears that the early winners are people...
View ArticleWelcome to the new group dedicated to Hugo and Les Misérables
Welcome to the new group dedicated to Hugo and Les Misérables.This new blog is dedicated to this masterpiece and to the author, Hugo. I want to to investigate with you and other interested parties,...
View ArticleLes Misérables: tune in Sunday morning!
A few days ago, I announced the new blog dedicated to Victor Hugo and Les Misérables. I have been very gratified by the response. Many people contacted me because they wanted to join the group.Sunday...
View ArticleLes Misérables, a full introduction to the project
Les Misérables is a new project which will use the 19th century masterpiece by French humanist Victor Hugo as a magnifying glass to have a look at our 21st century society. I hereby invite you to join...
View ArticleLes Misérables [1.1-I] M. Myriel
The first few blog entries will be a bit long first because we're just starting and there is so much to introduce, and secondly because the text of the first few chapters is so rich that there is a lot...
View ArticleLes Misérables: Reflections on today's politics found in Book I
I'm reading Les Misérables, more or less at the same pace as the augustin. In any event, I just finished the first book, on the Kindle.The translation and transliteration seem iffy; the Kindle version...
View ArticleChurch and State in France: the news catches up with "Les Misérables" project
I just posted a few days ago my commentary on chapter 1.1.I - M. Myriel, in which I wrote about the historical between the Church and the State in France. Today, I find out that the news in France...
View ArticleLes Misérables [1.1-II] M. Myriel becomes M. Welcome
This chapter is very, very rich and there is so much to say.... As a result this week's commentary is very long... Commentaries on chapters later in the novel should be much shorter (and I actually...
View ArticleLes Misérables [1.1-III] A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop
Today, we discuss chapter III of book 1, volume 1 of Les Misérables: A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop.In this chapter, we see Myriel using parables to preach around his diocese. Starting from that,...
View ArticleLes Misérables: update (UPDATED *1)
See update after the fold!Hello,The commentary for chapter 1.1.IV is supposed to be published soon. Chapter IV is one of the most beautiful in book 1 and I knew I couldn't give it proper credit. It is...
View ArticleLes Misérables [1.1-IV] Works corresponding to Words
Today, we discuss chapter IV of book 1, volume 1 of Les Misérables: Works corresponding to Words.This is one of the most important chapters in book 1. It is a magnificent chapter full of short and...
View ArticleSaints for the poor: Bishop Myriel and my grandfather
My grandfather was a Southern Baptist minister. He was as far from your stereotype of a Baptist minister, though, as M. Myriel was from the stereotype of a Catholic bishop. This anomaly was not the...
View ArticleLes Misérables: audiobook in French
Whether you understand any French at all or not, but would like the opportunity to listen to Les Misérables in the original French, then read on...Since I started the Misérables series, a handful of...
View ArticleLes Misérables [1.1-V] Monseigneur Bienvenu made his Cassocks last too long
Today, we discuss chapter V of book 1, volume 1 of Les Misérables: Monseigneur Bienvenu made his Cassocks last too long.From chapter I:Que se passa-t-il ensuite dans la destinée de M. Myriel ? [...]...
View ArticleLes Misérables [1.1-VI] Who guarded his House for him
Today, we discuss chapter I of book 1, volume 1 of Les Misérables: Who guarded his House for him.I need some help to build the project to its full potential so that collectively we can make a...
View ArticleForced absence
No, I have not abandoned this project, although I am not sure how much real demand and interest there is for it (exactly one person contacted me since my last diary in this group, and the last diary...
View ArticleFinished Les Miserables at last
I had Les Misérables on the Kindle, so read it a bit at a time. Glad I went that route, as reading a book that thick in bed would have given me carpal tunnel syndrome. I never quite got into it, as...
View Articleblues don't run the game
"Les Miserables" is a story not so much of love and misery, but of the utter obstinacy of people more devoted to their own grief than to life around them.Perhaps you know someone like that. Don't...
View ArticleThe Shaping of the Republican Argument against 'Income Inequality' and Les Mis
Republicans have been trying for a while to come up with a great counter balance for the argument that income inequality is not a 'real thing'. Rush Limbaugh has argued that people don't care about...
View ArticleMonday Night at the Theater: Les Miserables
A tenth-anniversary staged concert: you will probably want to watch it in full-screen mode.Set in early 19th-century France, it is the story of Jean Valjean, a French peasant, and his quest for...
View ArticleJhyleanne and Lea: a Little Bit of Love, and a Little Bit of Magic
In this often too bleak world we occasionally stumble upon something quite heartwarming. This happened to me while watching "The Voice Kids Philippines 2015" during the summer. In the episode that...
View ArticleTales from Iowa, via Les Miserables and 2014
As an Iowan and a very long time lurker, I feel moved to respond to the results of the Iowa caucuses.Reading the commentary and watching the news, I am struck how poorly Americans understand basic...
View ArticleLes Miserables Excuse for a Human Being
Time for a mini-rantA fool is simply a fool, bereft of the ability to rise above their folly.But one who, ignorant about just about just about anything requiring a modicum of thought, and dismissive or...
View ArticleHamilton, Wicked... cast members to protest White House/#KremlinAnnex with...
Long time vocal adversary of Donald Trump, Rosie O’Donnell, has signed on a plethora of Broadway stars to join her in a protest outside the White House, which she and others now refer to as the...
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Trees With Strong Roots: Helping Humpday at Street Prophets
A tree with strong roots laughs at storms.Malay proverbAs we continue to process the sorrowful events at the Tree of Life Synagogue, I have been pondering the use of trees as a metaphor across other...
View ArticleAROUND THE BLOCK – Trump: “Get rid of ballots”
CommentaryAre you ready to man the barricades?This story was originally published in AROUND THE BLOCK In response to a reporter’s question yesterday, “Win, lose or draw in this election, will you...
View ArticleNovember 3, November 4 and The Aftermath
This story originally appeared in Around the BlockCommentaryFrom a Zoom call to a Times Op-Ed, I believe we are at the precipice of the day/days of reckoning!Last night, on my regular Thursday Zoom...
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One Day More!
This story was originally posted in Around the Block CommentaryWith apologies, and thanks, to Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil, Victor Hugo, all the casts and crews of “Les Misérables” and...
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ONE DAY MORE... ! Songs for Inauguration Eve
I’ve had this on loop ALL DAY.I mean it. I have lost track of how many times I have listened to it.Good thing all the windows are closed or I would probably have driven the neighbors crazy.Little bits...
View ArticleOne Day More, James Corden edition
Just a short shout out to James Corden. I loved his earlier “Maybe I’m Immune” McCartney parody. But as a huge Les Mis fan….. this immediately grabbed me. Like most of us on this site, I imagine, I...
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"You Are the Un-Americans, and You Ought to be Ashamed of Yourselves." (Part...
“Born the son of a former slave, in an age of open segregation and persecution, Robeson was one of the most multi-talented and humanitarian artists of the early twentieth century. Yet, his unbounded...
View ArticleHamas's Israeli hostages, age 9 months & up. Broadway:"Bring [them] Home"...
xxYouTube Video"On October 7, 2023, over 240 people were abducted and taken hostage [into the Gaza Strip]… They represent over 30 nationalities…. A video was released on Wednesday of Broadway community...
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