The Weekly Standard’s Jonathan Last has seen the future, and he’s impressed: ‘Minority Report’ is a fully adult movie, different than anything he’s done before. Gone is the desire to give high-minded civics lessons. Gone is the obsession with the inner-child’s sense of wonder. Instead, he gives us a character driven movie. Spielberg may be working on a gigantic canvas, but in many ways, ‘Minority Report’ is a small movie.

From the editors of The New Republic, whose tolerance for the Palestinian collective — and for the Bush/Powell handling of the Mideast crisis — has reached the breaking point: Of course Palestinians went and slaughtered Israelis: The president of the United States was about to propose the creation of a ‘provisional’ Palestinian state. This presented the Palestinians with an emergency. The Palestinian dream was drawing closer to its realization; the

…And evidently, so does Jay Nordlinger, who in his latest “Impromptus” column questions Dubya’s recurring fitness trope: So, President Bush is leading a war on fitness, or a war for fitness, or against unfitness, or whatever we should call it. Great. Most people will hail him for doing this, or at least not object. But is this really what the chief executive of a liberal republic should be doing? Should

…And evidently, so does Jay Nordlinger, who in his latest “Impromptus” column questions Dubya’s recurring fitness trope: So, President Bush is leading a war on fitness, or a war for fitness, or against unfitness, or whatever we should call it. Great. Most people will hail him for doing this, or at least not object. But is this really what the chief executive of a liberal republic should be doing? Should

Here’s one of those sentences you imagine you can go your whole life without hearing, but then you hear it, and you’re like, “Wow. I figured I could go my whole life without hearing that crazy sentence”: A man who hammed it up in an Australian bar by donning pork chops as shoes is being sued by a customer who claims he broke his arm when he slipped on the

Somebody out in blogland sent me the following note, which I found a little strange: That’s the Way the Blogosphere Judicates: So Tony has got this new proposal. Seems that Tony is No. 20 when you do a Google search for “Tony,” and if enough people link to Tony to get him to be the No. 1 Tony by July 9, he (Tony, that is) won’t pull the plug on

Oh Lordy! Now my pals the Skunkfuckers have gone and bought themselves a man-eatin’ plant! Is there no end to the perversion? Man, that Canadian beer must be strong…

Oh Lordy! Now my pals the Skunkfuckers have gone and bought themselves a man-eatin’ plant! Is there no end to the perversion? Man, that Canadian beer must be strong…

Fine. Guess the joke’s on me. Now, can we just say goodbye to this, shut the lid, put it in a hole, and shovel some dirt over it? I mean, please.

Reader Jacques — who has some connection to Vermont maple syrup that I’m interested in exploring — sent along a link to this Jerusalem Post story: “CNN chief: No more airtime to bombers’ families“: “CNN will no longer give airtime to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers ‘unless there is a compelling reason to do so,’ Eason Jordan, CNN’s chief news executive and news gathering president, has told The Jerusalem