New York film buffs should be aware that the Film Society of Lincoln Center will be featuring the films of Lukas Moodyson this week. Saturday at 2, there will be a screening of Lilya 4-Ever, a masterpiece that shows no signs of being released on DVD,...
It's not to my credit that it took the best April. Fool's. joke. ever. to remind me, but Fred Korematsu has passed away. We should never forget that Korematsu was.
Friday Socialist Moonbat Cat Blogging. . .Katya
Hmm. I'm skeptical of sequels of 32 year old films, and I can't say I've been racking my brain wondering what Bad Ass Buddusky did with the rest of his life. In all likelihood, we're watching a disaster in the making. Nonetheless, I'm mildly intrigued.I'm in...
I've been trying to break my lifelong habit of reading far too much of the New York Times, which causes me all kinds of psychic consternation. (There's half a dozen.
The Seattle Mariners begin their 29th campaign this Monday at Safeco Field against the Minnesota Twins. Last year, the Mariners went a healthy 63-99, their worst record since the heady.
Chapter 121993 was one of the most remarkable in the history of the American Republic, as the increase in the top marginal tax rate sent shockwaves through American society. In a sign of things to come, 1992 National League MVP Barry Bonds retired from baseball, walking...
Here is my long awaited list of great Simpson's episodes. I was a bit surprised at how Lisa-centric many of them are. I wasn't terribly surprised that no episodes from.
Jonathan Chait has noted that the last two decades of the American economy could have been a demonstration designed to humiliate supply-siders. (The conservative critiques of the 1993 budget plan.
If Blogger had been showing any signs of working yesterday, I was planning to write about an even more self-paradoic than usual Steven Landsburg column and the terminal stages of Nat Hentoff's descent into wingnuttery (come back Christopher Hitchens, all is forgiven.) Fortunately, Mark Kleiman has...
The David Brooks column that Matt discusses forces me to confront a more profound problem. I am, you see, a hardcore Expos fan, but between the fact that my love.
It's not uncommon for those on our side of the aisle to engage in what we call wonkery--playing around with ideas for tweaking and improving policy, regardless of the political.