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I am not proud that I laughed at this: The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive by … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Movies often come in accidental clusters, and in 2010 we got two computer-animated films with supervillains as protagonists, namely Despicable Me (reviewed previously) and Megamind. Aside from that basic germ of an idea, the films are quite different, and both … Continue reading
Pleiades, built by the non-profit Galaxian Society, is Earth’s first starship, and nobody, not even its builders, fully understands how it works. Theory says it should be able to leap instantly from a given point in space to another one … Continue reading
Way back when I was in high school I played Dr. Montague, an anthropologist and paranormal investigator, in a school play adapted by the prolific F. Andrew Leslie from Shirley Jackson’s novel The Haunting of Hill House. (Even then, I … Continue reading
Dracula It’s been years since I saw this and I was surprised how much I’d forgotten. It’s quite good, even if not so terrifying now as it must have seemed for its original audiences, back when vampires had not yet … Continue reading
A bill [PDF] approved yesterday by the North Carolina Senate’s Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources Committee would force the use an approach dictated by politicians rather than the best available science to forecast sea level rise for regulatory purposes. This … Continue reading
Death at a Funeral: the 2007 British original I rather enjoyed this British ensemble comedy of strange characters and worse situations written by Dean Craig and directed by Frank Oz (also known for Bowfinger, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Little Shop or … Continue reading
My old friend and fellow Westlake fan Dave Locke recommended this amusing made-for-cable adaptation of Donald E Westlake’s novella A Travesty (published together with another story in a book titled Enough, in case you happen to want to look for … Continue reading
James Fallows has an interesting blog post on The Atlantic Monthly‘s website on the relative tone of political coverage of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. After showing some charts of data on press coverage collected by the Pew Center research, … Continue reading
Updated: See below. You might have seen some news stories suggesting that Bill Clinton had publicly disagreed with Barack Obama on extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, then reversed himself. Except, as Brian Beutler of Talking Points Memo … Continue reading