News? But knowing she has Asperger’s has now helped explain why she also suffered from anxiety around strangers and struggled with eye contact – making her feel ‘different’ and ‘an outsider’ … [Read more...]
Terry Teachout: Elmore Leonard overrated
Terry Teachout writes: Once again, it's not my purpose to demean pop culture. I think that most of the best movies made in America in the 20th century were crime dramas, screwball comedies … [Read more...]
Climax of ‘Taxi Driver’ actually less gory than it was supposed to be
CinemaRetro: When Taxi Driver was released to theaters in 1976, the ending was so bloody that in order to avoid receiving an X rating … [Read more...]
Mandela: What the Obits Omit
Jim Goad writes: The program refers to his second wife, Winnie Mandela, as “fiery and controversial” but neglects to include the fact that she headed a criminal gang that was responsible for the … [Read more...]
‘Shut your ass!’ Is ‘An American Hippie in Israel’ (1972) the next ‘The Room’?
Apartheid: Was it all bad?
Cliff Kincaid writes: WikiLeaks is usually a source that our media trust. But little attention was paid to information from WikiLeaks demonstrating that the South African government is now resorting to "forced … [Read more...]
Uncannily astute ‘Honest Trailer’ for ‘Home Alone’ (video)
Greg Gutfeld right as usual: Bruce Springsteen is overrated; Clash, Sex Pistols vastly superior (video)
(You already know how I feel...) Gutfeld video here. Watch the … [Read more...]
I’m almost afraid to ask this in case somebody dies…
Considering what happened the last time... But seriously, I can't find the lyrics to [Read more...]
‘And here is where one must bring the knives out for Mandela’
Michael Moynihan writes: For a man imprisoned for his political beliefs, he had a weakness for those who did the very same thing to their ideological … [Read more...]
‘Bernie Madoff was selfish, we say. But was he really?’
Walter Hudson writes: Did his scheme work out for him? Did it serve his rational self interest? Even before he was caught, even while he enjoyed the loot he plundered from his many … [Read more...]
‘In ways that sometimes trouble or puzzle both Protestant and secular readers, Catholic writing tends to be comic, rowdy, rude, and even violent.’
Via FirstThings: Catholics generally prefer to write about sinners rather than saints. (It is not only that sinners generally make more interesting protagonists. Their failings also more vividly … [Read more...]