Category Archives: Popular Culture

That Last-Minute Second

It looks like it was legitimate. People don’t understand that the only clock that counts is the one the officials, keep, not the one on the scoreboard or that NBC shows. But it gives people another reason to hate Michigan’s football program. Seriously, what did people expect Michigan to do with that gift, take a knee? No program would do that.

They didn’t deserve to win that game, the way the offense played, or, rather, didn’t play, but a win is a win. They’ll pay for it with a drop in the polls, if not becoming unranked entirely. And I’d say that Western Michigan should now be ranked. If the Wolverines can’t figure out how to score this coming week, it will be a bloodbath when Oklahoma comes to town next Saturday.

The British Caliphate

The Odyssey

Christian Toto reviews it.

I’m still on the fence about going to a theater for it.

[Friday-afternoon update]

Here is Peter Suderman’s review.

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[Monday-morning update]

Another review, from John Podhoretz.

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and another, at Tablet magazine.

Regardless of faithfulness to Homer, it sounds like quite the visual spectacle.

Groundhog Day

Why it continues to resonate: