CNN's Anderson Cooper is reduced to incoherence during is report on the traditional celebration of Dyngus Day, the Polish American name for Easter Monday: I gather Cooper later apologized for cracking up, and the organizers of Dyngus Day in Buffalo, … Continue reading
(Update: For more on U.S. war crime prosecutions for waterboarding, see this later post.) Years ago several legal memos surfaced in which the Bush administration's lawyers attempted to justify the use of waterboarding and other means of "enhanced interrogation" despite … Continue reading
The Associated Press recently published a "Fact Check" in response to some of Mitt Romney's claims about his and Obama's budget policies. It's worth a read. by … Continue reading
Joss Whedon’s treatment of The Avengers is pretty faithful to the source material and a lot of fun. I wouldn’t rate it quite as highly as some reviewers — frankly, some of the early action sequences bored me, and I … Continue reading
This is a quick follow-up to the previous post about Rex Nutting's piece on The Wall Street Journal's Marketwatch website in which he debunked the notion that Obama had drastically increased federal spending. One point I originally made in the … Continue reading
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) website is always worth a visit, and yesterday's entry is particularly interesting. We often think of the Earth as a watery planet because water covers so much of the surface, and evidence of … Continue reading
Yesterday I posted a review of Stephen King's 11-22-63, novel about a time traveler's attempt to prevent the assassination of President Kennedy. The early 1960s were, obviously, a quite different time, before the Civil Rights Act and the sexual revolution … Continue reading
(Updated; see below.) Yesterday Ray Nutting, a columnist for The Wall Street Journal's Marketwatch website, published something that quickly became a major topic among bloggers across the political spectrum: Contrary to what many people think, spending has risen more slowly … Continue reading
A hole in time in the storage room of a Maine diner allows passage to a specific instant in 1958, and after a couple of experimental trips, the protagonist embarks on a longer excursion to prevent several tragedies, including the … Continue reading
It's not pretty. Update: Well, dang. The video appears to be gone. (It might be somewhere else on YouTube, but I haven't time at the moment to look for it. There are plenty of similar pranks anyway.) It was a … Continue reading