It was pretty cool. First off: the slow intro, empty desert, sense of dread, reminiscent of There Will Be Blood. Dug it. The darkness sitting dormant. Stormtroopers: Same but different. Questions abound: Are these Republic Stormtroopers? Some Imperial rump state? Is the guy who pops up in the desert a good guy pulling a Luke, or… Read More Nerds are Never Happy: The Force Awakens Trailer
Black Keys. Work. Baby. Daddy tired. Daddy needs nap. Daddy needs five naps. 1…2…3…4… At some point I’m going to pull myself out of the stupor and make meh about the Star Wars Trailer(!), but for right now…
Kevin Williamson opines on how monsters make the ladies swoon. The phenomenon of young women falling in love with death-row inmates, particularly with serial killers, is not new: Women flocked to Ted Bundy’s trial — his trial for raping, torturing, and murdering young women as a prelude to acts of necrophilia — and he received… Read More Charles Manson, Star Wars, and the Joy of Hate
As with Putin, one has to admire the chutzpah. And expect the Left to argue that this isn’t that big a deal. That the order only applies to those who’ve been here already. That the order only applies to those who meat the “strict conditions” of deportation relief. That deportations have been up. That no… Read More His Imperial Highness Emperor Barack I, the Lightbringer, Has So Ordered
ThoughtCatalog is an interesting web site because it’s one of the few places on the Internet where you can reliably encounter diversity of opinion in the comment section. You can actually have a civilized discussion with people you disagree with. That’s a nice feature. So I decided to contribute something: 5 Things We Should Probably… Read More I’m Waxing Philosophical on ThoughtCatalog
Step 1: “I’m paying $100 a month for cable. Netflix costs $8 a month, Amazon Prime $75 a year. WTH?” Step 2: “Is it really worth $100 a month to watch football and 24-hour news?” Step 3: “Hold up, digital rabbit ears are a thing?” via Breitbart, noting the death-spiral of cable. Huzzah. Or, as… Read More The Three Steps of Cord Cutting
AKA, farting around with Flickr and Instagram. A corridor between buildings where I work. The view from my room. Click the link to see more.
The short version: he stormed Anne Arundel and Baltimore Counties, winning massive majorities there, while sweeping the traditionally Republican rural areas (Harford and the Eastern Shore, Western & Southern Maryland) and doing well enough in Frederick, Carroll, and Howard Counties (winning all three) so as to offset the massive Democratic majorities in Baltimore City and Montgomery and Prince… Read More How Hogan did it
An excerpted chapter from Nate Silver’s The Signal and the Noise is worth reading in its entirety. It deals with how Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov in 1997: Deep Blue had won. Only, it had done so less with a bang than an anticlimactic whimper. Was Kasparov simply exhausted, exacerbating his problems by playing an opening… Read More Why Chess Computers do Not Signal Skynet
First, a nice Mark Steyn obit on Mayor Thomas Menino of Boston makes a salient point: But, if you’re a feminist or a gay or any of the other house pets in the Democrat menagerie, you might want to look at Rahm Emanuel’s pirouette, and Menino’s coziness with Islamic homophobia. These guys are about power,… Read More Authority, Misandry, and Mixing: A Few Links to Start the Week
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