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National Review
National Review
5 Sep 2023
Jay Nordlinger


NextImg:The Corner: A Couple o’ Coopers, Etc.

My Impromptus today has some deadly serious subjects, including Saudi Arabia and Iran. And Nazi Germany. And the online pornography in which our country is awash. Do I have anything to relieve the grimness? Yes, several items, including one about General Booty. This is not a military officer. We’re talking about a quarterback for the Oklahoma Sooners. His name, really and truly, is “General Booty” — and he has cut an underwear ad.

Let’s get to some mail. I had a post in which I mentioned two Coopers: James Fenimore and Bradley. It was natural to me to identify the latter as an actor. I had never heard of him before I read about a controversy surrounding his latest movie (a biopic about Leonard Bernstein).

A reader writes,

I was amused that you felt compelled to identify Bradley Cooper but not James Fenimore Cooper. I went to high school in the 1970s. We read one short excerpt from a Cooper novel. Mainly, I know about Cooper through my dad, who loved him as a kid. My dad never thought the movies made of Cooper’s books were worthy of those books.

A different reader writes,

Mr. Nordlinger:

. . . I have a question for you concerning David Daniels [the American countertenor]. Given his recent guilty plea to sexual assault, his career must be over. What are your thoughts on continuing to enjoy his recorded performances? I do not plan on removing any of his transcendent performances on my Spotify playlists, but I always appreciate your calm and reasoned thoughts on things artistic. Thank you.

Honestly, I said everything I can think to say on the subject — the general subject — in an essay I wrote last year: here. A painful and often confounding subject, a wretched business.

In a column last Friday, I spoke of a typo, or a mistaken phrase, probably caused by auto-correct. A reader writes,

You’ve reminded me of an auto-correct error in an e-mail that I sent to a customer a long time ago. The customer had contacted me about some technical issues they were having with a product we had sent them. I wanted to reply that I was “sorry for your inconvenience” — but it came out “for your incontinence.” When the customer good-naturedly pointed out my mistake, I replied that they might not have incontinence, but I did, from laughing so hard.

In the past, I have published bird photos — splendid bird photos — from Hans Goeckner. He now gives us a photo of a butterfly: equally splendid. This is a Diana fritillary, from Fall Creek Falls State Park in Tennessee:

My thanks to Professor Goeckner and to all readers and correspondents.