An interesting discussion of Obama’s glamour problem, and the perversities of health care.
Category Archives: Popular Culture
The Five Stages
[Via Jonah’s weekly email, to which you should subscribe]
A Premake
What if The Empire Strikes Back had been made in the fifties?
[Via Geekpress]
Martin Gardner
RIP. I hadn’t realized that he’d retired so long ago.
[Update a few minutes later]
Some personal memories from John Derbyshire.
The Last Episode Of Lost
I missed it. As I did all the other episodes. I never saw a single one.
Though, actually, now that I think about it, I never missed a single one.
Thirty Years Ago
The Empire Strikes Back
It was the best Star Wars movie. Which means it was almost good.
Put Up Or Shut Up
John Nolte has a challenge for the modern Hollywood blacklist deniers.
Nolan Ryan’s War
…against “robot baseball.” A lot of good comments on why the pitch count has become more important, though.
To V, Or Not To V
I’ve watched “V” a few times, but just can’t really get into it. I agree with Jonah about all the annoying things about it, but to me the most egregious sin is that it achieves the amazing feat of making Morena Baccarin not all that attractive. And not just because (or even because — that can actually be kind of hot) of the evil thing. Oh, and on his Flash Forward comments (I’ve never seen the show, so can’t miss it), is it a job requirement of Hollywood writers that they be historical ignorami?
But Don’t Call Him A Fascist
Woody Allen thinks that Barack Obama would be a nifty dictator.
Because, you know, he only wants to do good, and those meanie Republicans are preventing him from helping our great nation achieve its destiny.