There are certain movies that I will always watch if I come across them while surfing, no matter how far along they are in the plot.  Boogie Nights is one of those movies.  It’s a nearly perfect little gem that also happens to have one of the greatest film sequences ever.  More on that in a moment.  It’s about the porn industry in the 70’s and 80’s, with tour-de-force performances

There is a great disturbance in the Leftosphere after Ezra Klein flagged a statement from the Clinton campaign that Sen. Hillary Clinton will ask her Democratic convention delegates to support seating the delegations from Florida and Michigan. Josh Marshall seems thisclose to a declaration that this aggression will not stand: The Clinton camp is just pushing to seat these delegates now because the contingencies of the moment mean that the

Usually, we sympathize with those who note that publicly employed wrongdoers of no determinable (from the press) political party are Dems.  Taranto goes too far, though: We thought about filing this Associated Press headline under “Bottom Stories of the Day”: “Detroit Mayor Sends Steamy Text Messages.” But it turns out this is a public scandal: Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick bristled in the witness chair last year when asked whether he had an

Bill Clinton: John McCain and Hillary are ‘very close’ For happy feet: You’re a nice lady, Peggy, and pretty hot for your age.  Dig the cheekbones.  Still, get over it.  Even though Malchow likes you, you’ve gotten kind of . . . what’s the word I’m looking for? . . . infuckingsufferable.

Swiftboating! “I think people have seen this sort of franticness in the air, if you will.” That man . . . nobody can say he doesn’t have vision.  Also, my son wants me to see Grambo with him. 

At Commentary’s “contentions” blog, Jennifer Rubin notices that the latest SurveyUSA poll shows Sen. John McCain ahead of Mitt Romney among voters who say the economy is the number one issue by a “startling” 37%-25% margin, which she calls “counterintuitive.”  Rubin then quotes new lines from Romney’s speech today at the Latin Builders Association: I’ve had settings where I’ve had to lay people off. It’s an awful feeling. No one likes

According to the New York Times, Sen. Hillary Clinton’s advisers say that Bill Clinton’s attacks on Sen. Barack Obama are working for their campaign and that Bill will continue to play a major role after the South Carolina primary. What the Clinton campaign says anonymously to the media does not match how it acts.  Yesterday, the Democratic race was back in truce mode: Clinton retreated first. Under fire for airing misleading ads about her main rival for the

Classic example of what the proggs like to call a “concern troll.” What?  I’m being unfair? Because of teh hypocrisy!!!

In case you’ve been following the story, over at Ace’s, about the dognappers busted for eating a golfer’s pet, Breitbart has the follow up. Some commenters over at Ace’s got a little excited, one suggesting that roasting and eating a Filippino child might stop this practice (which I thought was kind of . . . intolerant, Dahmer notwithstanding).  Personally, I’m a fan of dogs, as pets, but I think that

This morning’s New York Times piece on Rudy Giuliani’s courtship of snowbirds in Florida perpetuates a myth common in much of the coverage of the GOP race in Florida: …Mr. Giuliani chose an unorthodox campaign strategy. He essentially skipped four early party caucuses and primaries. Iowa and South Carolina were seen as too loaded with Christian evangelicals, and New Hampshire was too friendly to Mitt Romney (or John McCain, as