Awesome: Guy who invented the word ‘racist’ was a ‘racist’!
So the next time anybody calls you that, be sure to play Progressive Etymology Whack-a-Mole (i.e., "Hey, did you know the word 'anarchy' just means 'no government?" etc.) "For his time, Pratt was definitely a progressive," Snyder said. Indeed, he thought his ideas were the only thing keeping Native … [Read more...]
When did Jack Chick buy US News and World Report?
Ed Morrisey carefully debunks the idiocy: First off, as I noted in an update based on a comment from Radjah Shelduck, Jefferson wasn’t referring to the Catholic Church with “pernicious Rome,” but … [Read more...]
David Bowie turns 67: My NEW PJMedia post
Just a quickie... Even when he was starting out, however garish he looked, Bowie also seemed — incongruously — mature, not a bratty teenager spouting … [Read more...]
‘Annie Hall’ as we know and love it almost never saw the darkness of a movie theater
This isn't surprising when you consider all the absurdities sprinkled into this otherwise realist film -- the animated segment, Alvy in orthodox drag, etc. These lapses in tone were so adeptly handled that they never seemed jarring, but instead added to the movie's highly original, whimsical … [Read more...]
Alfred Hitchcock’s unseen Holocaust documentary to be screened
Hitchcock arguably only made three proper "horror" movies (Psycho, Frenzy and The Birds -- all produced well after the war ended) but oh well... [Read more...]
Google honors Jean-Paul Sartre’s unpaid pimp
‘Using Metadata To Find Paul Revere’
By Kieren Healy (via) … [Read more...]
Slate turned into ‘True Detective’ so gradually I barely noticed
Dear hippies: This is why people hate you.
You're welcome... Weberman, a marginal figure in the Yippies, picked through the Dylan family’s trash (he calls his stinky style of sleuthing the science of “Garbology”) and … [Read more...]
‘Three cheers for women who say they don’t want to work.’
Courtney Love, Ari Up on Patti Smith
“I grew up on Patti Smith, worshipping Patti Smith and she always gives me this hairy eyeball. I’m seriously going to sit down and write her ass a letter if [she] keeps doing ‘Smells … [Read more...]