That’s the briefest review of the new Batman flick that I’ve seen.
I’ll probably wait untll the DVD. I’m not that big a fan of dark movies.
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I’ll Try To Restrain Myself
The FDA says to not eat lobster guts:
Health officials for years have advised against eating the tomalley, the lobster liver some regard as a delicacy. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reiterated its advisory Friday, however, after some lobster livers tested positive for high levels of toxins caused by large blooms of red tide algae.
No problemo for me. I’ll stick with the meat, as I always have.
A New Toy For Rich People
A submersible speedboat that can dive to twelve hundred feet. If there’s a market for this, at a few million a pop, I’ll bet that XCOR will be able so sell a few Lynx’s to private owners.
The Science Of Batman
How plausible is he? Alan Boyle has done some research.
I agree that the getting-knocked-out-all-the-time thing is a problem. But no more so for Bruce Wayne than almost every teevee detective I watched when I was young. It seems like Mannix or Jim Rockford should have been sitting around drooling with all of the concussions they took almost every episode.
Another Great Newsman Gone
Condolences to friends, family and colleagues of Tony Snow. I wonder if major television news people die in threes as well? Unlike Russert, this wasn’t as unexpected–he had been fighting the cancer for a long time, and his mother died of it. But I hadn’t been aware that he was near the end.
[Update in the evening]
Mark Steyn has a short tribute (not to imply that many others don’t, and I suspect that he’ll have a longer one in due time). This is a very interesting point politically:
He had a rare temperament in today’s politics, and the Administration might have been spared the vicissitudes of these last five years had he become press secretary earlier.
Yes, of the many failings of George W. Bush, one of them is loyalty to previous staff. Scott McClellan was completely out of his element as WH spokesman, yet he was allowed to blunder through during many of the worst years of the administration. Things might have gone much differently had Tony Snow been brought in earlier. He would have challenged much of the nonsense that the press was putting forward much earlier, without looking like a deer in the headlights. It just shows how important perception can be.
[Update a while later]
Here’s an encomium from Rick Moran.
It’s very hard to come up with anything negative about Tony Snow, though I’m sure that one or two of my regular commenters will make the attempt in the service of their vile political agendas. I hope that I’m wrong.
Lileks On Keillor
James takes on, once again, his fellow Minnesota scribe:
Mr. Keillor feels he has done okay in the last eight years but has a hot collar and ground-up teeth thinking about what the Current Occupant has done to the country the little girl will inherit. He’s mad about spending – I’m with him there, although a bit perplexed to find Keillor coming down on the side of spending less – and he doesn’t approve of the war. It ruined his Rockwell moment.
Being unable to watch a kid play baseball because you are mad at George Bush does not necessarily mean you are a better person or a person more attuned to truth and the future.It might mean, at best, you are a person who writes run-on sentences stringing together predictable assertions; at worst, it might mean you’re anhedonic, and looking for scapegoats. I look at my daughter and consider her future, and I see possibility and peril as well. But that’s up to us, and while I’m sure Mr. Keillor anticipates the day where he is legally required to pay the taxes he heretofore feels he is morally required to pay, we can do fine without him. We’ve done fine without his money so far, and I think we can keep that up. Unless he’s been paying in at the pre-tax-cut level, of course. In which case: hats off! A principled man is rare in any era.
You know, I actually greatly enjoy Keillor’s books, but when you let him loose on an editorial page, he seems to go completely nuts. Bush derangement is a very real thing.
Congratulations
To Tyson Homosexual.
Thomas Disch
B-Chan has some thoughts on the ending of his life.
I never read much by him, but by all accounts, he did seem to be an unhappy man. I’m sure that being a homosexual in the fifties and sixties didn’t help. In any event, if there’s a better place, here’s hoping he’s there now.
More links over at Instapundit.
Pitchers’ Duel
Wow.
I just happened to glance at the Tigers-Seahawks game, and they’re tied 1-1, in the fourteenth inning. They need to win to keep pace with Chicago and the Twins.
[Sunday night update]
OK, they pulled it out not long after, 2-1. Though as a commenter notes, it”s a little depressing that they had to fight so hard against the Seahawks.
[Update on Monday]
OK, OK, I get it.
I’m obviously more of a Tigers fan than a baseball fan, and I don’t follow Seattle sports at all. Also obviously, I meant Mariners.
Brush Up
There will be a test tonight. A guide to fireworks effects.