This story about the Utah theater that violated its contract by yanking Brokeback Mountain contains this interesting twist:The Megaplex 17 at Jordan Commons in the Salt Lake City suburb of Sandy decided to pull director Ang Lee's cowboy love story at the last minute on...
Month: January 2006
Via Lance comes this interesting question.You have to explain America to someone from not here, but you can only use ten movies to do it. Which ten do you choose?The.
Fascinating. Via Baseball Prospectus, subscription required.Do you know you can already get a bet down on whether or not Mark McGwire will be elected to the Hall of Fame next.
The Supreme Court has ruled, 6-3, that the Attorney General does not have the authority to override Oregon's assisted suicide law. The Court (correctly) did not announce a new constitutional right to assisted suicide; rather, the case was about statutory interpretation and separation of powers....
Shorter Laura Bush: The must crucial goal for sex-ed programs is to ensure that women don't get AIDS until they're married or raped.
Dear Bill Kristol, Victor David Hanson, Niall Ferguson, and the right side of the blogosphere,We understand that you don't like lefties, pacifists, Europeans, the MSM, Democrats, hippies, and what not..
Those in favor of attacking Iran (my reservations about the words "hawk" and "dove" persist) are fond of declaring that the invasion of Iraq has not hurt our position with Iran. This position is not defensible. Let me count the ways...At best, the invasion of...
When you've got absolutely nothing, reach for Munich:As in the 1930s, too, the West fell back on wishful thinking. Perhaps, some said, Ahmadinejad was only sabre-rattling because his domestic position.
WILLIAMSON: Aren't you going out today?ROMA: With what? (pause) With what, John, they took the leads...WILLIAMSON: I have the stuff from last year's...ROMA: Oh. Oh. Oh, your "nostalgia" file, they's.
I believe that Matt has uncovered the ultimate Caitlin Flanagan article; indeed, the scale of the self-parody is so deep that if her name wasn't on the byline I would assume it was a joke. It's the ultimate in her all-too-imitable brand of sneering, reactionary,...
Rejection letters have lost their sting since I got a job, but I must nevertheless say that I'm a bit offended when an institution can't even bother to proof-read its.
Words fail.Hat tip to graefix. Also check out what appears to be graefix' new blog.