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Monthly Archives: February 2013
Last year I reviewed a 2005 film called Star Wrek: In the Pirkinning, an amateur space and time-travel comedy in Finnish that parodied Star Trek and Babylon 5. It was produced on a shoestring budget by a group of friends … Continue reading
How Russians do pushups: How Russian drivers react to meteor explosions: Link: http://youtu.be/LoDcjs6q4c8 How Spongebob Squarepants fans control the Russian military: Link: http://youtu.be/vhuzb3WMntc How Russians celebrate a wedding: Link: http://youtu.be/KgoapkOo4vg The last is something I’ve posted before, but I just … Continue reading
If you’re not familiar with the web series “How Should Have Ended,” it’s fairly entertaining and usually does a good job of poking fun at plot holes. As you’d expect, you need to have seen the film the film in … Continue reading
According to a number of erroneous reports, when the mother of one of the victims of the Aurora, Colorado shooting asked Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) about regulating assault weapons, he curtly responded, “I can tell you right now you need … Continue reading
This is an immensely likable film, reportedly the highest-grossing Bollywood production in history. It’s mainly a comedy, but there are a lot of dramatic or melodramatic scenes as well and an underlying serious theme about the pressures placed on students … Continue reading
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Matthew Yglesias (in a Slate blog post) and Jonathan Chait (at http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/02/david-brooks-obama-plan-birther.html) had mutually supportive pieces yesterday deriding claims that both parties are equally to blame for lack of progress on deficit reduction. A particularly silly accusation is that Obama … Continue reading
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