Ted Barlow points us to an interesting Onion piece about bad scenes in great movies. To me, the choice is easy: the scene in The Godfather Part II where Kay confronts Michael. It's jarring to find a below-average soap opera scene in one of the...
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Friday Cat Blogging. . . Stromboli
Lindsay has asked me to participate in the "Caesar's Bath" question--i.e., five things that similarly situated people tend to like that you don't really get. Unfortunately, many of the the.
Heh-indeedy.
Given the interesting comments by several friends of this blog (including Lance Mannion, Russell Arben Fox, and Ezra Klein), a few more comments in re: cultural conservatism of indeterminate contours..
Wow.Who should I vote for?Your expected outcome:LabourYour actual outcome: Labour 18Conservative -53 Liberal Democrat 60UK Independence Party -14 Green 2You should vote: Liberal DemocratThe LibDems take a strong stand against.
For the likes of myself, Rob, Glenn, and no doubt many other readers. MSN.com, which I'm apparently too lazy to remove as my default homepage for IE, published a front-page article on "the fastest growing jobs in the US--where qualified applicants, not the employers, have...
Phoebe Maltz has the ultimate response to the ridiculous "man date" story in the Times. When I saw the thing, I actually considered tossing off a one-line post about how.
I am infected.You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?Jorge Luis Borges, Collected FictionsHave you ever had a crush on a fictional character?Not really. The closest.
Another Amy Sullivan pundit's fallacy, another firestorm. A few comments: If you want to know why Sullivan generates so many hostile responses, although she seems to be a progressive arguing in good faith, this remarkable part of her response to Matt is the key: "Most...
Amanda Marcotte recently noted that fake libertarians "are straight men who like to fuck without making babies and therefore oppose the wingnut push to legislate the bedroom. But they don't.
Take a moment to give thanks for one of the finest Americans to ever draw breath.Then think about what you can do to stop the Republicans from tearing down everything.