AFI Fest’s biggest scheduling dilemma this year was THE ROAD versus BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS. On the one hand, an acclaimed novel brought to life and starring Lord of the Rings guy. On the other, an insane German director and bugfuck actor in a name-only remake apparently about total insanity.

I’d have been [...]

Looks like I just made the entire third column of the blog disappear somehow.

Hoping it’ll be back to normal soon…chalk this up to growing pains. If you can’t log in as a commenter…give us time.

I blame Vladimir Putin.

And I might be afraid to do any fancy posting (pics, video, etc.) till I figure out what [...]

Yeah, so…we’ve altered things just a little bit around these parts. Click around and check it out.

If you loved the old site – it’s still here, under the heading of “Everything Else.” In time, those pages may be incorporated into the new design, but for now, they’re still as they were.

I know there are vocal [...]

Just a heads-up to all you readers that will be some remodeling going on around these parts. Mostly subtle stuff, but some things will be more obvious. We’ve heard the feedback over the years, and also taken stock of what exactly the site needs to do.

Don’t worry, the blog will not be going away, or [...]

I hear a variation of this argument all the time:

“If health care is free, what’s to stop people drinking and smoking and eating bad food just so the government can pay for all their excesses later?”

So many fallacies on this one.

First, the person asking should realize that there is no cure for lung cancer, or [...]

Cornholio…

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and Tiger Mask…

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Just curious – has anyone who opposes a public option for health insurance also come out against the concept of public defenders?

You know, those suspected of crimes have the right, spelled out in the Miranda warning, to be provided an attorney at government expense if they cannot afford one. So, criminals getting taxpayer assistance for [...]