A quick glance out my living room window reveals that, aside from maybe one additional primer-colored ‘79 Chevy Nova on blocks in the front yard of the neighbor’s house across the street, all is quiet.  Eerily so?  No, not especially.  Which, of course, doesn’t mean that somewhere, avocados are going unpicked—or that uncollected shopping carts aren’t at this very moment beginning to infest the lot at the local Albertson’s like

Æon Flux (2005) Directed by Karyn Kusama.  Stars Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller, Sophie Okonedo, Pete Postlethwaite, and Frances McDormand Five words or less review: Blissfully, only 80 minutes long…

Video at Hot Air.  Writes Allah: Tough night for Colby, who must have regarded this gig as a chance to play the Super Bowl on his home field. Watch the clip and see for yourself whom the crowd ended up rooting for. Crooks & Liars called the performance “dynamite,” which is close to the truth only insofar as it’s a munitions metaphor. Read Captain Ed for details. In Colbert’s defense,

     “Honey?  What’s say we put on those INS caps I picked up on eBay, head down to Wash Park, and stop Hispanic-looking people at random to demand they ‘show us their papers’? “Because Christ, do I ever love the expressions on their little immigrant faces when they feel like they’re about to be arrested, stacked like firewood in the back of some government-issued cattle truck, and dumped on the side

Stop the ACLU’s John Stephenson points to this impressive and thorough Yankee Sailor post, “Nuclear Deterrence in the Age of Terrorism,” which examines in some detail the familiar arguments for deterrence, and extrapolates from those arguments the problems likely facing us under current (and future hypothetical) conditions of global nuclear proliferation: […] Going forward into the 21st Century […] a number of changes in the balance of nuclear power have

—Not gonna happen today, sadly.  The little fellow, as it happens, is down in Texas to attend the funeral of a cousin, who rumor has it polished off eight bottles of Pink Grapefruit-flavored Mad Dog 20/20 before wandering out onto SH 114 outside Idalou (around Route 82) looking for a pickup truck to throw himself under. And he found one, too—an old Ford Ranger crammed with beer-sodden Lubbock jocks on

Actress and Honorary Chair for PETA, Pamela Anderson—yes, she of “Baywatch” and a moutful of Tommy Lee fame—has penned (in eyeliner, presumably) an op-ed for today’s WSJ that decries the use of real chimpanzees by Hollywood. Let’s have a look, shall we?  Writes Pamela: King Kong is my hero. He’s big, muscular, sensitive, a terrific actor—and he’s not real. The use of computer-generated imagery has really taken off in Hollywood.

From the National Journal’s Hotline, an transcript of yesterday’s White House press gaggle with Scott McClellan, where a reporter (Jim VandeHei?) — likely an acolyte of Juan Cole — registered a complaint about the White House’s choice to have their TVs tuned to FOX News. To be fair, unlike Professor Cole (who has called for FOXNew to be shut down on the grounds that it is “polluting” the information stream)

Jones: “Goddamn but do I miss Lisa Ling.  And bacon cheeseburgers, with a double side of onion rings.”

Nail Yale’s Clint Taylor lets loose on Juan Cole, and in the process, I suspect, speaks for a number of conservatives who have come out against Yale’s desire to hire Professor Cole (myself included): Yale’s free to hire Prof. Cole, and I’m free to complain about it.  As I said in the entry below, I’m not qualified to evaluate his Middle Eastern Studies credentials.  I am, however, qualified to evaluate