I'm fast becoming convinced: neo-conservatives are schoolyard bullies that never grew up like the rest of us. Today the punk who enjoyed branding others with a red-hot wire hanger while a college student is telling us "oops, it was bad data all along but I'm still going to send your sons and daughters to die!" From Bloomberg.com...Bush Says Iraq War Was Justified Even Though Intelligence WrongDec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush accepted...
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Early word on V for Vendetta
This past July I made a post about the just-then released trailer for V for Vendetta, hopefully conveying the impression of just how eagerly I'm awaiting this movie. If done right, V for Vendetta has the potential to upset a LOT of applecarts all over the place... which I think might be a good thing. A few days ago Harry Knowles from Ain't It Cool News had his annual "Butt-Numb-A-Thon" film festival and the audience he assembled got to be the very...
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
They should let Encyclopedia Brown run Wikipedia
You might have heard by now about the recent controversy surrounding Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that anybody can edit at any time (here's a story at The Register about it, which Wikipedia users responded to less than an hour later by creating an entry for "moral responsibility"). In theory, Wikipedia is a good idea. It guarantees an ever-increasing body of knowledge to use as a reference. This past week I wound up making two edits - and...
Monday, December 12, 2005
Bush showing his ignorance. Again.
This time he's comparing the "leaders" of Iraq to the Founding Fathers of America. Which shows just how much this "president" appreciates or even really understands the history of the country he's supposed to be governing.Show me where another country's military came into America to "liberate" her. Point out to me how we had to rely on anyone but ourselves to win our own independence. Oh sure, we had some foreign advisors like LaFayette that helped...
Sunday, December 11, 2005
Syriana review
Just came back from watching Syriana. This one is going to take a while for me to really wrap my brain around it: it's been a long time since I've seen a movie so complex, so multi-layered, so cerebral. It's directed by Stephen Gagan and I've heard some people compare it to his 2000 movie Traffic, but I haven't seen Traffic yet so I don't know how accurate that is. Might...
Saturday, December 10, 2005
Richard Pryor has died
Had a perfect day today, and I'm just now reading about this.He had a Saturday morning TV show on CBS about twenty years ago called "Pryor's Place", that was pretty good. He's mostly remembered for the movies he made back then though, like The Toy and Brewster's Millions (let's just pretend that Superman III never happened, 'kay?). It's also worth noting that he was one of the writers on Blazing Saddles: Mel Brooks once said that everything that...
Just saw The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
I'm going to yield to Lisa and the review she's writing, because she's the REAL Narnia nut in this family. But overall: I liked it for the most part. It didn't yield as much emotional "umph" as any of The Lord of the Rings movies did, and it's because of that I think the movie could have stood to be much longer. But otherwise, this first (I hope) Narnia movie was a darned good thing to catch, especially now during the Christmas season. I will...
KONG-SIZED REVIEW: King Kong DVD and Kong: King of Skull Island
Funny thing about A Christmas Carol: you never have to had ever read the book to understand the entire story. EVERYONE knows what A Christmas Carol is all about. But how many of us have actually taken the time to sit down with the original novel and enjoy it the way Charles Dickens wrote it in 1843? I finally did that when I was in college years ago: reading it in Dickens'...
Thursday, December 08, 2005
25 years ago today...
...John Lennon was shot outside his apartment building in New York City.I remember my Dad telling me about it the next morning after I woke up. I had no idea who Lennon was at the time: at six years old I'd heard of the Beatles but had no idea who made up the band. So I wasn't old enough to know that Lennon was a very famous guy... but I do remember the incredible outpouring of grief that followed.Anyway, since today it's been a quarter-century...
Didn't the Nazis say the same thing when they forced Jews into the Warsaw ghetto?
The mayor of Riviera Beach in Florida is justifying his abuse of the new eminent domain powers that the Supreme Court gave governments by claiming that he's doing this to "rescue and save" the people who are already living in the areas that he wants to clear out, so that hotels and restaurants can be built there instead. "The America we want to live in is one that talks about personal sacrifices that you and that your colleagues talk about every...
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
He's the King of the world: New Kong may sink Titanic
This goes hand-in-hand (or should I say hand-in-paw?) with something that I'll be posting, hopefully by tomorrow. Let's just say that Yours Truly has gone more than a little ape over the past day or two. But in the meantime, Drudge Report is saying today that some Hollywood suits are predicting that Peter Jackson's King Kong might break the all-time records for top-grossing movie set by Titanic when it came out in December of '97. "Grown men around...
Friday, December 02, 2005
Power-mad Xbox 360
CNET.com's Will Greenwald is reporting that the Xbox 360 is a severe hog for electrical power, requiring more than twice the juice that the original needed. There's some neat stats in his post that might interest y...
10 Marines die a meaningless death in Fallujah
10 Marines killed and 11 more injured from a roadside bomb in Fallujah, the Marine Corps just announced.They died for nothing. Ten years from now it's going to be apparent to everybody that more than two thousand - at last count - American servicemen and women perished for no reason at all. Somebody is probably going to blast back at me for saying that, with the usual "They volunteered!" or "They are defending our freedoms!" or the standard canned...
The Nature Boy gets busted
The Smoking Gun has the mugshot photo of pro-wrestling legend "Nature Boy" Ric Flair after he surrendered to the police stemming from his allegedly assaulting a motorist in Charlotte. Chad and I were talking about this the other day and he posits the following observation...Saw that in the Charlotte paper. His quote in the Charlotte Observer was, "As usual, I will be exonerated." Which begs the question, how often does the "Nature Boy" get charged...
Thursday, December 01, 2005
Giving them the monkey business
KongisKing.net this evening is making note of a new Flash site guaranteed to make you chuckle. Head over to Kong Kicks Ass and unleash the king of Skull Island on Tom Cruise, George W. Bush, and even yourself. Be warned though: the content is more or less really PG-13 in tone. But if you don't mind that, this is great for a few laug...
30,000!!!
Break out the dancing chimps: sometime in the past few minutes this blog had its 30,000th visitor since I first installed the counter almost two years ago. Can't believe I've had so many hits in that time. Just a few months ago it was somewhere in the 15,000 range, and now we're all the way to 30,000! To whoever was visitor #30,000, thank you... along with everyone else who's been a faithful visitor or otherwise stumbled onto my humble blog ...
So Bush is saying that the U.S. won't "run" from Iraq...
...which is kinda funny because Bush has done nothing but run from everything else - especially responsibility - his entire life.What he really means is that he won't run away from sending more American lives to die needlessly, while he stays in absolute safety and comfort over here. For him to move away from that would constitute "running" in his mind.See, this is why this blog and those of other independent-minded writers are so important: we're...
