Wonkette's weekly service to our readers: Translating Tina Brown's Thursday column in the Washington Post. We understand it so that you don't have to. Tina saysWhat it meansHistory is hot.It has been at least 15 minutes since I said something was hot. (People used to pay me to do that.)And not just because of Brad Pitt's flying thighs.The last time I saw Brad Pitt I had just taken some of my Special Pills. There's such an outpouring of books from historians at the moment, you can't throw a canape in Manhattan after 6 p.m. without hitting a tweedy scholar. . .So someone got a little soused at that Tony Judt party. The tweedy guy stepped in front of Harvey at the last second, I swear.. . . wearing the dazed expression that comes with a sudden release from the past.The canapes were sort of stale.Everybody's looking for lessons to support wherever they stand on the meltdown in Iraq, and they're drawing them from books as disparate as Ron Chernow's "Alexander Hamilton," Niall Ferguson's "Colossus," Simon Sebag Montefiore's "Stalin," David Fromkin's "Europe's Last Summer" and James Chace's "1912" -- to name just a few.I can read. I can read book catalogues, at least. Did you know that there
Thursdays with Tina: Doing It When I Can Edition
Thursdays with Tina: Doing It When I Can…
Thursdays with Tina: Doing It When I Can Edition
Wonkette's weekly service to our readers: Translating Tina Brown's Thursday column in the Washington Post. We understand it so that you don't have to. Tina saysWhat it meansHistory is hot.It has been at least 15 minutes since I said something was hot. (People used to pay me to do that.)And not just because of Brad Pitt's flying thighs.The last time I saw Brad Pitt I had just taken some of my Special Pills. There's such an outpouring of books from historians at the moment, you can't throw a canape in Manhattan after 6 p.m. without hitting a tweedy scholar. . .So someone got a little soused at that Tony Judt party. The tweedy guy stepped in front of Harvey at the last second, I swear.. . . wearing the dazed expression that comes with a sudden release from the past.The canapes were sort of stale.Everybody's looking for lessons to support wherever they stand on the meltdown in Iraq, and they're drawing them from books as disparate as Ron Chernow's "Alexander Hamilton," Niall Ferguson's "Colossus," Simon Sebag Montefiore's "Stalin," David Fromkin's "Europe's Last Summer" and James Chace's "1912" -- to name just a few.I can read. I can read book catalogues, at least. Did you know that there