22 November 2008 – 9:23 am +0800
It is with a curious sense of schadenfreude that I make this post.
Just last night I was chatting online, when my interlocutor, amidst several dubious claims, said that America had not won in Iraq. She made the mistake of defining “victory” objectively in a way that was ridiculous — she said that [...]
7 November 2008 – 8:02 am +0800
A thought occurred to me this morning.
It has taken about sixty years for our political culture to catch up to our pop culture, more or less.
We have just now elected our first President who is not famous for any actual accomplishments, but is simply famous for being famous.
I, for one, welcome President-elect Zsa Zsa Gabor.
5 November 2008 – 11:28 am +0800
Damn.
He was only 66.
Jurassic Park was the best of his novels that I read, and The Andromeda Strain was probably the best movie adapted from one of his books.
3 September 2008 – 12:44 pm +0800
A comment on this Fox News story:
we have had presidents who suppose to know so much that did so little . obama just needs to get the job . that is the only way any body can learn how to do the job . no matter how much you think you know you will never [...]
4 August 2008 – 8:01 am +0800
First, look into these eyes:
Just keep looking for a few moments.
Now read how her own mother treated her. (þ Herself)
If your reaction is other than murderous rage, or an intense desire to take that poor little girl in your arms and do anything to make things better, there might be something wrong with you.
Read to [...]
9 July 2008 – 8:24 am +0800
Certain black1 politicos in the vicinity of Dallas, Texas, are either colossally ignorant, or they are engaged in a devilishly clever scheme cause anyone who ever cries “Racism!” again in the future to be laughed out of the room (þMichelle Malkin):
[Dallas County] Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections “has [...]
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4 July 2008 – 9:48 am +0800
Boy oh boy is Paul Krugman a jerk:
Al Gore never claimed that he invented the Internet. Howard Dean didn’t scream. Hillary Clinton didn’t say she was staying in the race because Barack Obama might be assassinated. And Wesley Clark didn’t impugn John McCain’s military service.
As Thomas Disch once wrote,
Not, that nasty little snot, must [...]
3 July 2008 – 9:30 am +0800
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis has never been whole since 1928. Even the recent restoration, which I saw in the theater, was missing chunks of the movie.
No more.
An original, full-length print has been discovered!
Please pardon me why I dance and leap and cavort in anticipation of viewing it.
23 June 2008 – 6:51 am +0800
George Carlin, Rest In Peace.
19 June 2008 – 9:22 am +0800
Vadim Perelman is no longer going to direct the film of Atlas Shrugged.
Nuts.
Perelman was saying all the right things, and his choice of how to deal with the background of the story, which is incongruous with present reality, was ingenious (without making it explicit, the story was going to take place in an alternate reality [...]
16 June 2008 – 11:20 am +0800
It’s hitting so many places that I’m afraid it’s not just a rumor: Stan Winston, the special effects wizard behind the design of the Terminator, Predator, the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, and countless other wonders, has passed away at the too-young age of 62.
14 May 2008 – 9:00 am +0800
No matter who wins the presidency, we’re going to be saddled with someone who wants to be a fascist dictator.
And the sad thing is, the only one for whom I could vote in any kind of good conscience probably won’t even get nominated, unless she steals it.
Barack Hussein Obama1 has no experience, a disturbing sense [...]
2 May 2007 – 7:57 pm +0800
Yes, Virginia, it really is that simple.
21 February 2007 – 8:43 am +0800
The sad thing is that this news is neither surprising nor unique (þMalkin):
A father killed his wife and four daughters in their sleep because he could not bear them adopting a more westernised lifestyle, an inquest heard yesterday.
Mohammed Riaz, 49, found it abhorrent that his eldest daughter wanted to be a fashion designer, and that [...]