Disney is Going to Re-Release UnAltered Star Wars, Says the Same Stupid Rumor That Said So Last Year

Watching Star Wars – the original trilogy, I mean – as it was before George Lucas screwed with it is what we’ve all been hoping for since the Disney buyout. Rumors of this were floated about last spring, but Disney did not confirm that they even wanted to do this. A debate was prompted about… Read More Disney is Going to Re-Release UnAltered Star Wars, Says the Same Stupid Rumor That Said So Last Year

14 Mar 2015 AndrewLeave a comment

Are People Really That Bothered by the Word “Moist”?

I remember first hearing this back in college. It was girls who said that they hated the way “moist” sounded. I’ve never had that level of aversion to a word, where I experience white-girl-ewws if I hear it. There’s one four-letter word that I wrinkle my nose at, but I fortunately don’t encounter it that… Read More Are People Really That Bothered by the Word “Moist”?

6 Mar 201514 Mar 2015 AndrewLeave a comment

Clinton Fatigue Returns: The Martin O’Malley Bubble

In the 229 years of this Republic’s existence, no one has successfully made the 50-mile trek from the Annapolis Governor’s Mansion to the White House. I don’t know how many have even tried. Maryland is too small to be a big state, and too liberal to be a contended state. It would take a peculiar… Read More Clinton Fatigue Returns: The Martin O’Malley Bubble

4 Mar 2015 AndrewLeave a comment

Spengler: You Are Not Original. Be Glad of It.

Why You Won’t Find the Meaning of Life: Most people who make heroic efforts at originality learn eventually that they are destined for no such thing. If they are lucky, they content themselves with Kierkegaard’s pot roast on Sunday afternoon and other small joys, for example tenure at a university. But no destiny is more… Read More Spengler: You Are Not Original. Be Glad of It.

4 Mar 2015 AndrewLeave a comment

Earth to Variety: No One Wants to Fix the Oscars

It’s not that I disagree with the suggestions Variety offers: 1) Hire Jimmy Fallon to host, with a multi-year contract, 2) Get people who actually share the general public’s taste to vote, 3) FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MAKE IT SHORTER, 4) Throw in some Audience Participation, and 5) Give the Celebs their booze back.… Read More Earth to Variety: No One Wants to Fix the Oscars

25 Feb 201525 Feb 2015 AndrewLeave a comment

Camus and Karamazov, “The Rejection of Salvation.”

A Continuing series in which I post my notes of reading this engaging book. In The Rebel, Camus frames Metaphysical Rebellion in the words of Dostoyevsky’s Ivan Karamazov (among other ways). God is to be not denied, but refuted and condemned. The Problem of Evil on steroids, as it were. From pgs. 56-57: Ivan rejects the basic… Read More Camus and Karamazov, “The Rejection of Salvation.”

23 Feb 2015 AndrewLeave a comment

Sean Penn, You Magnificent Bastard…

Did you actually say “Who gave this SOB a Green Card?” when announcing the best director winner? Were you drunk? Did you think no one would be bothered by you saying that? Were you not thinking? Do you know Alejandro Inarritu personally? He says you do, and that you have that kind of friendship. So… Read More Sean Penn, You Magnificent Bastard…

23 Feb 2015 AndrewLeave a comment

If Blogs are Dying, We Shall Miss Them.

Lileks at his profound best. While most blogs weren’t deathless examples of great writing, there was the opportunity for individualism, and you don’t get that from a Pinterest page. You don’t get it from a feed of things snipped and reblogged and pinned and shoveled into The Feed. The web turns into bushels of confetti… Read More If Blogs are Dying, We Shall Miss Them.

22 Feb 201522 Feb 2015 AndrewLeave a comment

Atheist Violence

It appears that the man who gunned down three Muslim students at UNC-Chapel Hill was a Proggy Atheist.The police are now saying that the murder was over a parking dispute. Look, that may have been the trigger, but that was not the powder, if you receive my meaning. You settle parking disputes with passive-aggressive notes… Read More Atheist Violence

12 Feb 201512 Feb 2015 Andrew2 Comments