A lonely, good-hearted college student named Rusty (Oren Skoog) has finally found a girlfriend on the Internet, a gorgeous young lady who lives in Romania, where her father heads a university. As the film begins, Rusty is emailing her good … Continue reading
In a July 2009 opinion piece for USA Today, Mitt Romney urged President Obama to emulate the Massachusetts approach to health care reform at the federal level. And the very first thing? First, we established incentives for those who were … Continue reading
According to PC World, the Washington DC election officials dared anyone to try to hack into its secure web-based absentee voting system. A professor in Michigan and a couple of grad students did so, flipping all the votes to write-in … Continue reading
What people do in their spare time in New Orleans: by … Continue reading
See update below. In theory, 18-year-old Daniela Palaez is an illegal immigrant to the United States. In reality, she grew up as an American, having been brought here at the age of 4. Her family entered the country on a … Continue reading
This is a film pretty much everyone interested in film history has heard of even if they’ve never seen it all the way through. What most of us know is that it was supposed to have been tremendously important and … Continue reading
A performance of Mozart’s 40th Symphony is interrupted for comic purposes: I confess that when I watched this my first thought was that it must be an Austrian orchestra, which was based on a very unfair bit of conventional wisdom … Continue reading
This is going to give me some really bad dreams. Maybe if I pass it on, they won’t be so bad. (From sketchybunnies.failblog.org.) by … Continue reading