So I watched Magnolia again last night (second time), and I must admit, I still think it’s a brilliant and provocative movie. I mean, a deluge of frogs? For Chrissakes, how can you go wrong? Besides, the movie hints at the kind of acting Tom Cruise is capable of when given an interesting script to work with (Cruise is woefully underrated, I think). And love it or hate it, it’s

“Three unarmed U.N. observers and two armed peacekeepers were hurt in scuffles with Hezbollah forces in southern Lebanon Thursday, the U.N. peacekeeping force commander said. “Tensions are high in the area along Israel’s northern border, the scene of several clashes recently between Hezbollah and Israeli forces. There are fears the area could become a second front in the Middle East violence, in addition to the Israeli-Palestinian confrontation in the West

“Three unarmed U.N. observers and two armed peacekeepers were hurt in scuffles with Hezbollah forces in southern Lebanon Thursday, the U.N. peacekeeping force commander said. “Tensions are high in the area along Israel’s northern border, the scene of several clashes recently between Hezbollah and Israeli forces. There are fears the area could become a second front in the Middle East violence, in addition to the Israeli-Palestinian confrontation in the West

Meryl Yourish has cobbled together a

What happened to the porn spam I used to get? I’d been feeling so good about myself for deleting those crass daily emails (once I’d explored all the freeviews they offer, I mean), but lately, nada — no eager twenty-somethings with the self-proclaimed “naughty habbit” of touching themselves in a provocative manner (is there another way?), no come-hither stares from busty, doe-eyed candystripers or curious cheerleaders hoping to “experiment” with

What happened to the porn spam I used to get? I’d been feeling so good about myself for deleting those crass daily emails (once I’d explored all the freeviews they offer, I mean), but lately, nada — no eager twenty-somethings with the self-proclaimed “naughty habbit” of touching themselves in a provocative manner (is there another way?), no come-hither stares from busty, doe-eyed candystripers or curious cheerleaders hoping to “experiment” with

Matt Labash of The Weekly Standard concludes his outstanding series investigating automated traffic enforcement problems with two final essays, Part 4: “Fighting the Good Fight“: BY NOW, it should be fairly clear that even if numbers don’t lie, the same can’t be said for the people who use them. All that is left are the ugly particulars, the tales of woe and dread, of inconvenience and larceny, of the mistrust

Writing in Reason, Tom Peyser (hmm. Any relation to Andrea Peyser, the NYPost columnist who called Beelzebub Amanpour “than taken in by Empire, the Hardt/Negri/Imperialism “Praxis of Evil” taking over humanities deparments around the world. Throughout Empire one finds pronouncements that, if taken seriously, amount to a call to arms against just about everything, since Hardt and Negri maintain that government and corporations are engaged in a sinister scheme against

Writing in Reason, Tom Peyser (hmm. Any relation to Andrea Peyser, the NYPost columnist who called Beelzebub Amanpour “than taken in by Empire, the Hardt/Negri/Imperialism “Praxis of Evil” taking over humanities deparments around the world. Throughout Empire one finds pronouncements that, if taken seriously, amount to a call to arms against just about everything, since Hardt and Negri maintain that government and corporations are engaged in a sinister scheme against