Monthly Archives: September 2013

Better Call Saul

AMC has actually given the green light to Better Call Saul, a Breaking Bad spin-off.

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A Brother’s Life With Cerebral Palsy

A very moving piece in Slate: “A Photographer Focuses on His Twin Brother’s Life With Cerebral Palsy.“

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Weiner/Spitzer

God, this made my day, on so many levels: Disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner bowed out of the New York City mayoral contest with his middle finger raised to the reporters who covered his scandal-ridden campaign. His wife Huma Abedin … Continue reading

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Sci Fi & Anti-White Bias

Over at the leftwing Guardian newspaper, they are fretting about the social injustice that is sci-fi/fantasy literature. The big question, you see, is “why the majority of writers are straight white males from the US and UK, and why they … Continue reading

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Hitler in Hollywood

David Denby weighs in on two recent books which push a ‘jewish Hollywood collaborated with Nazism by not making explicit anti-Nazi movies’ meme. It’s a meme I find rather bizarre, and one that — given the prevalence of anti-Nazi movies … Continue reading

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The Last Word

The drink of the month is The Last Word, the recipe below being adjusted somewhat by my own tastebuds. 2 pt gin 1 pt green Chartreuse 1 pt maraschino liqueur 1 pt lime juice Pour gin, Chartreuse, lime juice, and … Continue reading

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Rush Limbaugh: Bush Had ‘Shock And Awe,’ Obama Has ‘Shuck And Jive’

The headline caption alone completely slayed me.

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David Landes: RIP

David Landes has died at the age of 89. My eyes were widened by his most influential book, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (1998). His was a bold analytical take … Continue reading

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Ed Asner’s Moment of Lucidity

Wow. Where to even start with this one. Longtime kneejerk-liberal, Ed Asner, momentarily cognizes the cognitive dissonance of his own leftwing ideology: Another reason some Hollywood progressives have been reticent to speak out against war in Syria, according to Asner, … Continue reading

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Australia – Elections

Australia has a new Prime Minister and a new government, a Liberal-National coalition, that won largely on the issue of how to curb asylum-seeking immigration (the decades-long scam that is making the remote island of Australia a hotbed of Islamic … Continue reading

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