Once is a film that deserves more, so much more. A truly independent effort built around music and characters whose authenticity simply bursts off the screen and fills your heart, this movie was so real in its violation of all things Hollywood that it was almost hard to watch. I kept waiting for the goddamned […]
Archive | February, 2008
40 years later – why not a floor fight?
Something I haven’t had the time to understand is why everyone seems to think that the floor fight at the Democratic National Convention of 1968 was so bad. I heard tonight an interview of the Governor of Michigan (and superdelegate) who said that everyone wanted the candidate decided before the convention in Denver – Obama, […]
Sen. McCain and sex? It only seemed like a good story
Perhaps the most disingenuous word a journalist can deploy is seemed. My newsroom godfather taught me that the use of seemed, seems or other forms of the word means the reporter is guessing, that the reporter has found no clear evidentiary link between Fact A and Fact B. In its now highly ridiculed story about […]
"Lethal piñatas": keeping cluster bombs from kids
Five-hundred delegates from 122 countries converged on New Zealand this week in a bid to rid the world of cluster bombs. In the end, though only 82 states signed the Wellington Declaration — the draft of a treaty to ban cluster bombs, sweep lands free of them, and assist survivors — the conference was a […]
SMU to host the George W. Bush Presidential Liberry
It’s official, more or less: The decision became official as SMU’s board of trustees approved an agreement with the Bush Foundation, which will manage construction and raise money for the project, expected to cost more than $200 million. This has to be the most ironic moment in the history of either presidents or libraries. I […]
Emigration 1 – Little Drops of Decision
Maybe you once cared for a drug addict? What led them there, what keeps them there? Not your problem. And you believe in all that “tough love” shit; you know that they must make the decision to come clean and live responsibly. But you also believe that you can make that journey easier for them […]
Saturday Video Roundup: where's the kaboom?
I’m a lucky man. I have a Marvin the Martian mouse pad. I have a Marvin the Martian house key. And now, I have a Marvin the Martian SVR to share with all my friends. Let’s start by watching Bugs Bunny save the Earth in one of the more prominent easement cases in galactic history.
Quotabull
I believe my current participation could be a distraction. — major league baseball pitcher and accused steroids and HGH cheat Roger Clemens, in withdrawing from a scheduled appearance at an “event, which takes place largely at Disney Hollywood Studios, and lets fans interact with athletes and ESPN personalities and watch live ESPN programming”; Feb. 20. […]
2005 Colorado public education survey not statistically valid
Fundamentally, there is a right way to gather statistical data, and there’s a wrong way. A few months ago, a survey that purported to question the consensus surrounding anthropogenic global heating illustrated, in egregious fashion, the wrong way. The “survey” asked poorly phrased and biased questions designed to be spinnable to DemandDebate.com’s propaganda goals. The […]
CU postscript: Benson must be resisted and the Regents must be removed
The University of Colorado Regents have issued a statement apparently aimed at people who, like me, have deep reservations about their appointment of a highly partisan global warming denying oil executive who’s less educated than 99% of the college presidents in America and who has a track record of attacking the very foundations of tenure […]
Has the University of Colorado sold its soul to the devil?
I’m worried about the University of Colorado, the school where I earned my doctorate. Last night, in one of the more controversial moves in some time, the CU Board of Regents elected Bruce Benson to be the university’s new president. The 6-3 vote fell along party lines and marked the first time in nearly 35 […]
Smart people hate America and other myths of the current cultural milieu…
Everyday life, supersaturated with images and jingles, makes intellectual life look hopelessly sluggish, burdensome, difficult. In a video-game world, the play of intellect — the search for validity, the willingness to entertain many hypotheses, the respect for difficulty, the resistance to hasty conclusions — has the look of retardation. – Todd Gitlin Maybe it’s our […]
S&R Honors
Click here to learn more about past honorees...- S&R Fiction: “The Treehouse,” by Aimee Stahlberg
- Republicans perpetuate myths to keep Cold War alive
- S&R Nonfiction: “The Nobodies,” by Jennifer Pocock
- “See You in Hell” and the dominatrix garage: The Lost Patrol drops a new video, and btw, the CD is fantastic
- Iran’s election nuclear, but not nuked
- Mystery Unraveled: How a white, moderate, married, churchgoing, middle-class, middle-aged woman could vote for Obama
- An open letter to Burt Rutan, regarding his WSJ commentary on human-caused climate disruption
- Meet the men of Match.com: Really, guys, are you serious?
- Climate scientists still besieged
- Pelosi on Bush: “He’s not worth impeaching”
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