You could not pay me to care any less about the Oscars. A million dollars would not spur me to care less. “I’m sorry,” I would say to your offer of a million dollars, “but the task you set before me is impossible. Human boredom can only do so much.” So enjoy this instead. Blogging… Read More Quiet Monday
Ace uncovers it in a (generally positive) review of The Woman in Black: The PG-13 rating is misleading. It doesn’t have the typical red flags of an R-rated movie. And I guess you can’t give someone an R for mood and tone and pervasive morbidity. So they got a PG-13. But it’s really an “R” movie,… Read More The Problem with the Movie Rating System
Gingrich is likely to win Georgia and Tennesee. (h/t Memeorandum) What that means, I have no idea. But neither does the media: Gingrich increased his lead slightly since a poll conducted earlier in February, receiving 38 percent of the vote. Rick Santorum received 25 percent, Mitt Romney 19 percent and Ron Paul 4 percent in… Read More The Yawning Chasm of the GOP Primary Season
…it’s the only way to be sure.
Rick Santorum is apparently a killer. Because he wants to ban amniocentesis. Except what he actually said was this: Free prenatal testing “saves money in health care. Why? Because free prenatal testing ends up in more abortions and therefore less care that has to be done, because we cull the ranks of the disabled in… Read More Into the Hysteria
I am certain that, were a serious environmentalist to assess the claim that Obama is the pocket of the environmental movement, he/she would sniff, and say something along the lines of “Better than Bush, I suppose, but hardly committed to really turning around our imminent catastrophe.” Such is the nature of ideological commitment. But it… Read More Our Green President
Before my daughter was born, I went to several ultrasounds with my wife. It never occured to me that the procedure was something being forced upon her against her will. It was part of the process. Not sure I’m getting how that’s rape, unless everything that breaches consent is so defined. If the baby passes through your vagina… Read More Vaginal Probing!
A: When it’s a conservative woman. (h/t Protein Wisdom) I mean, technically, the caller didn’t say “rape.” She said “I hope she finds herself in this situation,” so that she could undergo the experience. Which she considers the same as rape. So either she knows said consideration to be hyperbole, or she’s fine with something… Read More When is it okay to wish rape on someone?
…was way back on the road this little girl died on. This is one of those stories that one doesn’t even want to read; you get the particulars in the first paragraph, and you drop the rest. It’s both too horrible and too banal to comment on. But Ladd Ehlinger does a damn good job… Read More The Point Where Punishment Becomes Abuse…
Reading Graham Greene today. I like it. It’s serious and honest. I shall have to dig some of his stuff up for the Kindle. Perhaps The Quiet American, as I’ve seen that movie.
Content Blues 