It doesn’t exist, but that doesn’t mean that reporters aren’t always trying to find it anyway.
Month: October 2009
Seyward Darby recently noted that “[f]ew movies released in recent years–or, let’s be honest, ever–look as abysmal as I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell,” the Tucker Max vani
You’ve got to be kidding me: Could he kick Dutch’s ass? Probably not. I just hope he fights dirtier than he sails. By casting Adrien Brody in PREDATORS, producer Robert Rodriguez and direc
The wake of the NEA non-scandal is about as deep and dispersed as that of drifting rowboat in mid-Atlantic chop . . . unless that’s your boat and you have a telescope trained on your trail like Michael van der Galien and the folks at Big Hollywood,* in which case you’ll mistake the chop for […]
Although the Tigers choking was definitely against my Yankee-hating interests (and I was cheering for them anyway), it should be said that regular-season playoffs are awesome. …as that call on t
Murderer Not surprisingly, in response to a Forensic Science Commission that had the temerity to hear evidence about the execution of an innocent man he allowed to proceed after a less-than-cursory re
Proof that pretty much no amount of dishonesty can get your Respectable Pundit pass revoked as long as you’re a right-winger. Although it is at least a sign of progress that TNR would publish the definitive takedown. …the latest exhibit.
You’re damned fortunate that they’re dead tired of the Labour Government. I have had the misfortune of experiencing the first couple weeks of teaching term, which means I’ve been wor
Steven Hayward’s Washington Post article on the brain death of the conservative intellectual movement damns the nearly-departed with the faintest of all possible praise: The bestseller list used
Serwer: “…any political movement that places The Bell Curve among its most important intellectual accomplishments can expect to have very few people of color in it.” Remember the great permanent Republican majority talk in 2000? Grimly entertaining memories…
Mr. Trend has an outstanding post that explains what the selection of Rio means in the wider arc of Brazilian history. With all due respect, however, it’s obvious that Trend discounts the fact t
Guy whose primary work in film involved casting soft-porn flicks calls rape of 13-year-old “a little thing” in rising to the defense of Roman Polanski. Further commentary is presumably ren