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Author Archives: Max West
Lautner’s Bob Hope Home For Sale
The famous Lautner-designed Bob Hope house is for sale, with an asking price of $50 million: Bob Hope owned a collection of homes in Palm Springs and the L.A. area, and two have already hit the market — both snagging … Continue reading
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Drake Equation: UCal-Berkeley/UHawaii Study
Here’s the Drake Equation again, actualizing itself, right before our eyes, towards 1.00. Of a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: There are likely “tens of billions” of Earth-like planets in our Milky Way galaxy, … Continue reading
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Hollywood Pushing Obamacare
At NRO, Andrew Johnson reports: The California Endowment has awarded a $500,000 grant to the Norman Lear Center, a public-policy organization at the University of Southern California that focuses on entertainment, to make sure that television producers and their staffs fully understand the new health-care-reform law, … Continue reading
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Culture Wars – Pt. 5,331,287
More detritus we can look forward to at 8 pm on ABC. Soon, gender-reassigned characters will be as ubiquitous in sitcom land as the funny, gay neighbors are today. There has been a major change in the relationship dynamic of … Continue reading
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PoMo Article on Black Sexuality
Sometimes, reality is more absurd than parody. “Who’s Afraid of Black Sexuality?” is a Chronicle article chock full of standard-issue, postmodernist, race/class/gender language: Marlon M. Bailey rose to give a talk at a meeting this year to celebrate Ph.D programs … Continue reading
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Two Golden Dawn Members Murdered
It’s now tit-fot-tat. When a country has economically imploded as deeply as Greece, amidst massive third world immigration, this sort of thing picks up steam: ATHENS (Reuters) – A brazen drive-by shooting that killed two young members of Greece’s far-right … Continue reading
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Jew York Times – Pt. 881,273
A good barometer of the NYC liberal Jewish zeitgeist is to see what the ‘most e-mailed’ stories in the NYT are. Today, at the #1 spot, is an op-ed titled “Being ‘Part Jewish’”. Yes… this is the #1 most e-mailed … Continue reading
Are You A Racist If You Own A Gun?
This one is great: Racism and guns go together. That’s the finding of an international study released Thursday that says the two are linked. More specifically, odds are greater that a racist white American also keeps a gun at home … Continue reading
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War On Christmas – Pt. 52,187
From the progressive, forward-thinking Bordentown Regional School District in NJ: Yet another school district’s decision to crack down on religious Christmas music is already beginning to capture national attention. Just two weeks after Wausau School District in Wausau, Wis., battled over the very … Continue reading
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Peter O’Toole & Orson Welles on Hamlet
From 1963, here is a bombastic Orson Welles and an unpretentiously cerebral Peter O’Toole, discussing Hamlet. O’Toole was playing Hamlet in a Laurence Olivier-directed production at the National Theatre. (The host is Huw Wheldon and the older actor is Ernest … Continue reading
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