The Town of Odyssey

A hint: when a third-rate actor makes a genius look dumb, it probably has much more to do with deception and selective editing than anything else. That's definitely the case here. Incidentally, Ron Bailey has a brief writeup of the film in the July issue of Reason Magazine, going after it for perhap...

An interesting meditation on faith from Kierkegaard, somewhat a propo of this thread. It's not perfectly on point, I suppose, but I came across it while reading Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling today, and it's well worth mulling over. The occasion for the passage, and indeed the entire book, is the ...

As noted, filling the Globe Theatre meant appealing to all classes; you wanted to draw in not just the high society types, but also the working man who might pay a ha' penny for standing room in the peanut gallery, but only if the play was bawdy enough to compete with other entertainment of the day,...

Some people would appear to doubt that this campaign is viable; how else to explain the egregious dearth of supporters who have maxed out for the cause? Where are our obscenely wealthy bundlers? Our ethically-challenged lobbyist backers? Our paranoid activists? Our drivers of station wagons festoone...

Sadly, something is missing, for there's one thing that makes spring complete for me, and makes every Sunday a treat for me...

What, is the election over? But we have not even begun to run! But no, it appears that we've simply missed the filing deadline. No matter; this is bigger than that. It's sort of like the Ron Paul Revolution (which would be trademarked if its most prominent supporters were enlightened enough to belie...

Everyone issues a manifesto these days. Even the Evangelicals . I mean, really: evangelicals issuing a manifesto? (And shouldn't it be the gospels or something?) During this "testing the waters" stage, however, I should like to take a few moments to do what Fred Thompson never did, which i...

Another recent article (TWP, I believe) highlighted young teachers in the metro area with less than wholesome profiles, and how administrators were beginning to crack down on this now that parents are discovering these profiles and complaining. One certainly hears of prospective employers looking at...

Why is it necessary to belittle the candidates' appearances? If we are that shallow as voters or citizens, one would think we would still have the sense not to admit it publicly, service though it might be to others to unveil it.

I'm willing to believe that there are intelligent scientists who subscribe to ID theory, but I haven't met one yet. I would note, however, that one can be extremely skilled in a certain field, such as Alzheimer's research, and be clueless or willfully ignorant in some other area of science. Actually...

Sometimes I think that I'm a hard-wired contrarian, that I simply have to disagree with the consensus view. The trend continues: I thought No Country for Old Men was an excellent movie. Of course it had no resolution: the movie was partially about a lack of resolution. Summer blockbusters tend to be...

Are you sure you aren't in Arlington, or, at worst, Alexandria? If you're in Annapolis, you're a lot farther than ten minutes out. In fact, it would take you nearly 30 minutes to drive to the New Carrolton metro station, which is the last stop on the Orange Line. The metro ride to Capitol South is p...

I'm taking advantage of some rare free time to overhaul my system, which means uninstalling anything I'm unlikely to use, offloading files I don't need, running a lot of cleanup... As I do this, though, I'm going to want to retain certain utilities that I find essential to how I use my computer, and...

No Country for Old Men -- a unique film, to say the least.

You don't know what happened at the end of Dr. Strangelove? Why, the world ended, of course, as the WWII-era song "We'll Meet Again" plays.

I neglected to include Citizen Kane , a glaring omission. There are other films commonly considered great that I've (this time intentionally) declined to list as well, despite having seen, including a number of Hitchcock pictures and Doctor Zhivago ; similarly, I've opted to avoid mentioning more re...

In no particular order, noting that, for any films for which there are remakes, I intend the original:

- On the Waterfront
- The Third Man
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Battle of Algiers
- Twelve Angry Men
- All The King's Men
- The Manchurian Candidate
- Exodus

I'm still waiting for the board add-on that will allow me to post my thoughts before I type them, or even think them... Jackie: do you have an optical mouse? If so, you may want to put a mousepad under it, or if you already have one, a darker one. If it's a wireless mouse, check the batteries; mine ...

I, too, experience such problems. Often, my replies are submitted before I finish writing them, even. In fact, I've already sent off this reply, and I haven't read a word of this thread yet. Such humorless people you all must be, to have actually believed that Dr. Watson's complaint is that the foru...

On the other hand, I was homeschooled throughout high school and, if it weren't for college, I might still be insisting with much clarity and jubilation that "Hoked on fonix werkt fur me!" Forgive this recovering homeschooler's confusion: is there something wrong with what you said? Dudn'...