The Titanic was real? I never fail to be amazed at some peoples’ willingness to profess their ignorance in public.
Category Archives: Popular Culture
The Old Left
…are the new squares.
A Good Start To The Season
There are two undefeated teams in the major leagues. Detroit is one of them (the other is the Diamondbacks).
The Simpsons
…is autobiographical. I don’t believe that Springfield is in Oregon, though. There are deserts, but no saguaros in Oregon.
Hunger Games
Will it scar your child’s psyche?
I hadn’t even heard of the book before the movie came out, but it sounds like the whole series might be a useful corrective against the increasing fascism in the country.
Bravissima, Jennifer Lawrence
“Screw PETA.”
The First NASA Astronauts
We met them fifty-three years ago today. It was slightly over two years since Gagarin’s first flight, whose fifty-first anniversary is on Thursday.
Günter Grass
An open letter and history lesson:
All this is well known. I should like you to think about something that is less well known, Herr Grass, and that is the fact that the First and Second World Wars were entirely unnecessary. That’s right: the fact that they were fought in the first place is entirely the fault of people like you, and specifically of Kaiser Wilhelm II, who could have pre-empted them in 1905. Kaiser Wilhelm II and Günter Grass: a couple of soul-mates.
Like some of the commenters there, I always found The Tin Drum unreadable, in German or English.
Innovation Starvation
Some thoughts on our seeming inability to any long do the big technological things, from Neil Stephenson.
Big, Bold Science Fiction
Why we need it more than ever. I’ve read more than half of Glenn’s picks, but not all.