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November 2007

Parallax Views

Roger Simon, on the lackluster response to the recent batch of anti-American foreign policy films that have been oozing out of Hollywood like chicken-fried steak grease out of Michael Moore’s backfat: The truth is Hollywood people are massively uninformed. They live in a bubble and, outside what they read in the New York Times and hear on NPR, they know almost nothing about what is really going on in the

Winona Ryder? [Dan Collins]

Scorpius over at SondraK’s brings us this fascinating tidbit: Winona Ryder has joined the cast of J.J. Abram’s upcoming Star Trek, playing the mother of young Spock (Zachary Quinto), Variety reported. If Abrams’ Trek film follows the established mythology, Ryder would play Amanda, the human woman who marries Spock’s Vulcan father, Sarek. In the original series, Amanda was played by TV veteran Jane Wyatt. She’s invited on a Starship, and

Post-Modernism & Hi-Tech Primitivism [Dan Collins]

Dr. Sanity has up a superb article on the rhetorical and philosophical symbiosis of Intellectually Elite Westerners and Islamofacists. Congratulations to Moron Pundit! When I started this blog all those days ago, I had a dream; to pollute the airwaves with flagrant profanity and pointless images of explosions. I think we can all agree that I have achieved my fucking goal. Let this be a lesson, people: Aim high; you’ll

Hell Is Evil People [Dan Collins]

Jack M. steps out of his online persona over at AoS to crave the attention of the blogosphere and the MSM in making notorious some evil bastards who caused a fifteen thirteen year old girl to hang herself in a bizarre and sick MySpace ambush.

Mind-Forged Manacles [Dan Collins]

Michelle Obama urges Black America to wake up and smell the black coffee on The Morning Grind: “I’m completely confident: black America will wake up, and get [it]. But what we’re dealing with in the black community is just the natural fear of possibility…You know, there’s always that doubt in the back of the minds of people of color. People who’ve been oppressed and haven’t been given real opportunities. That

It Takes a Potemkin Village [Karl]

Hillary Clinton’s campaign has admitted to planting questions with audience members in Iowa and pointing out the plants to her (though it was also news to her, somehow).  Rival candidate John Edwards pounced on the scandalette, saying the practice is “what George Bush does.” Edwards — and the press which relayed his attack — have short memories. Others may recall that in 1992, President-elect Clinton held an “economic summit” in Little

Back in Colorado

Our flight out of Santa Barbara — a nice 1:52 direct shot to DIA — was canceled yesterday afternoon when some kind of warning light flared up during taxiing for takeoff. So instead of getting home at a reasonable hour, my wife and I were obligated to visit the airport in San Jose, and from there, catch a flight back to Colorado. All of which has left me exhausted, particularly

Moron Global Warming [Dan Collins]

In an excellent piece at The American Thinker. If there’s one thing I want you to take away from the article, it’s that pirates are to blame for rising temperatures. It also suggests a cool new team name for my alma mater.

Uber-Nerds [Dan Collins]

Brendan’s birthday is on Wednesday, so as part of the festivities we’re doing a little father-son bonding today, and driving down to Boston (Framingham) for the following: The Sci Fi Channel, in partnership with Microsoft, will unspool a special two-hour episode of “Battlestar Galactica” in movie theaters in eight major cities two weeks before it premieres on the network. The episode, “Razor,” kicks off the final 22-hour season of the

Hippocrisy [Dan Collins]

I just love Degas. Kyle Smith: Apparently Nimoy’s book advances something called “the fat acceptance movement,” and Nimoy chastises us all–how dare we be attracted to the attractive?–in the book by noting that “the average American woman weighs 25 percent more than the models selling the clothes.” And a few women, apparently, weigh 300 percent more than the models selling the clothes. Warning: not safe for anything (h/t Hot Air)