On sin
Posted on September 29th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
[T]he sins a man performs are not the same as the ones he thinks he has performed…
-Francis Ford Coppola, via Gretchen Rubin
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Orchard & Broome, Lower East Side
Posted on September 29th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
I don’t know why I like this intersection so much, but I do.
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On humility
Posted on September 29th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
Is there any possible argument that some of us, being ill-educated in certain areas, should simply back off and be humble? I find myself less and less inclined to keep up with the ins and outs of politics, for instance. I know comparatively nothing about several major religions, and am totally uninterested in anything but […]
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My New York looks like a children’s book
Posted on September 28th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
I recently went on a mission to acquire some of the children’s books that made me want to move to New York when I was very young. The obsession started when I was around four years old (at the same time as my determination to move to London sprouted), and continued until…well, even when I […]
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Anti-domesticity is anti-feminism
Posted on September 28th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
I don’t go in for identity politics at all, which is why I find this Nigella Lawson quotation (via Alice Bachini-Smith) so wonderful:
I actually always thought there was something essentially anti-feminist in the disparagement of cooking and baking, which is to say, if something has been traditionally female, it therefore must be discredited, and only […]
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On the UK babysitting ban
Posted on September 28th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
Americans often look puzzled when I refer to the UK’s nanny state. Well, the word “nanny” does spring to mind for multiple reasons here:
When two working women who look after each other’s children are told they are breaking the law by doing do because they are not registered with the state to do that, the […]
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On Roman Polanski
Posted on September 28th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
There is really nothing more to add to this, except: People are sick.
UPDATE: I was wrong! There is something more to add.
Roman Polanski is Hollywood and Europe’s Ted Kennedy.
UPDATED ONCE MORE: Wrong again!
You would think we’d busted him for unpaid parking tickets. The guy drugged a thirteen year old girl in order to rape […]
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Bill Clinton’s savior complex: It’s the narcissism, stupid
Posted on September 27th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
Full disclosure: When I was 19, I campaigned for Clinton, and even had the distinct pleasure of basking in the glow of his self-importance in person. I’m ashamed of this now, but there it is.
Our current president says of Bill Clinton’s post-presidential activities:
[He could] have settled for a life of quiet, a life of ease, […]
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On hiring illegal immigrants + the problem with the law(s)
Posted on September 27th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
Absolutely brilliant post from my friend Brian Micklethwait on the British Attorney General, Baroness Scotland, being in trouble (or not) for hiring an illegal immigrant and why he objects to her and why he doesn’t:
I wouldn’t have any problem with someone hiring an illegal immigrant to look after their home. I may well have […]
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Sing it, Bibi
Posted on September 25th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
I have had such a crush on this man since I was twelve years old. I did not think it could get any stronger until I saw what he had to say at the UN. THIS is a man.
The man who called the Holocaust a lie spoke at this podium. To those who refused […]
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Gold stars and dreams
Posted on September 25th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
My friend Gretchen Rubin was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal this week, mostly about lawyers and happiness (she was a lawyer - a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, no less - who decided to give it up to be a writer). Here are two quotes, one from each part of the […]
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More speed shrinking
Posted on September 25th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
In addition to CBS, CNN also covered the Speed Shrinking party last week. This report focuses on my friend Erasmo, one of the sweetest and most talented people I’ve met in New York - and that’s saying something.
Embedded video from CNN Video
I love that he got such good advice from my shrink: “Lead the […]
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California: Still snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
Posted on September 25th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
I can’t even get into how messed up this state is. My friend Jeff Nolan does a pretty sterling job of covering that on his blog and Twitter feed. I thought of him when I read this (via Brian Micklethwait):
In a grim irony, Californians are now being taxed like socialists and subsidized like libertarians.
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Before Yom Kippur
Posted on September 25th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
I hate to see people I love suffer like this.
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