Before creating the television show, The West Wing, Aaron Sorkin wrote the movie, The American President. It is one of my favorite movies. The penultimate scene is at the end of the movie were President Shepherd faces down his critics. From link: INT. THE PRESS BRIEFING ROOM – EARLY MORNING ROBIN is on her last [...]
A good example of why net neutrality is imporant is covered, indirectly, by this article from the Washington Post. For years, old recordings have piled up in the archives at Verve Records, including beloved jazz tracks that had no market big enough to justify pressing new discs. But thanks to the Internet, music lovers are [...]
James Wolcott makes a discovery. I believe I have discovered the sacred text that inspires and animates ferocious, fur-bearing authors such as David Brooks, John Tierney, NRO’s Stanley Kurtz, and Harvey Mansfield–author of Manliness (which gets a rough going-over in next weeks NY Times Book Review by Walter Kirn)–to assert male prerogative and keep women [...]
New York Magazine reviews Our Brand is Crisis. Read it, see the movie. It’s hard to know whether to marvel or weep when James Carville goes into his Bill Clinton–meets–Looney Tunes act in Rachel Boynton’s knockout documentary Our Brand Is Crisis—the context is so morally topsy-turvy. As a high-priced consultant to the 2002 Bolivian presidential [...]
Trent Lott has had a love/hate/hate relationship with the White House since he lost his leadership position over his loose lips. At Crooks and Liars, there is a video from Hardball where Lott says that he will override Bush’s veto on the ports issue. Snarky movie paraphrase: Is this the end of Rove?
Paul Rudnick, writing in The New Yorker, has some fun with the Vatican’s recent pronouncements about homosexuality and the priesthood. A MEMO FROM THE VATICAN by PAUL RUDNICK From: His Holiness To: All seminaries Subject: While the Church approves of ordaining “transitory” homosexuals—that is, those men willing to take subways and buses rather than taxis—according [...]
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Worth1000.com sponsors Photoshop contests of one sort or another. This is from the Time Machine 9 contest.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has a new program to teach kids about preparedness. It features Rex, the gayest cougar this side of BYU. The whole site is pretty funny. Rex is married to Purrcilla. Aren’t they just the butchest?
This is a great location for information about Mozart. The Mozart Project Check it out.