Æon Flux, Cars, Distant Drums, The Fifth Element, The Green Berets, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Helen of Troy, Howard the Duck, Juno, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Madagascar, PT 109, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Reservoir Dogs, Star Wars, The Star Wars Holiday Special, Them!,… Continue Reading
1. What’s up with your objectively incorrect voting for The Voice, America? Did you somehow forget to vote for Amanda Brown? She’s got major pipes, she rocks and she croons and she shows soul and emotion, and unlike any of the contestants… Continue Reading
When I write a multiple choice question, I like to come up with at least one of four answers that is clearly wrong. Ideally, there are two obviously wrong answers, one “maybe-it-might-be-right” answer and one correct answer. But at least… Continue Reading
Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Brunei, Cape Verde, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Fiji, Gabon, the Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Kiribati, Liberia, Malta, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Monaco, Panama, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Seychelles, Singapore, Tonga,… Continue Reading
It begins with a momentary disorientation. “What is that?” I say. Then I realize that the “that” which I have been unable to identify the thing that I am looking directly at. A blind spot has manifested at the exact focus of my… Continue Reading
As part of my continuing intermittent series of posts publicly worrying about California lighting its money on fire with a high speed rail construction project, I offer another post publicly worrying about California lighting its money on fire with a high… Continue Reading
It was easier to integrate U.S. states and Canadian provinces for this week’s trivia challenge, as things turned out. Here we go: California has the most of these, by far, with 74. Illinois is next with 30. Then New York… Continue Reading
I’ve lived in the desert for a long time — I grew up here, and I’ve been here six years since I came back from Tennessee. But until tonight, I’d never seen a wild kit fox out in the desert.… Continue Reading
The culture wars over political correctness in academia never really went away, I suppose, although they only sometimes bubble up to the top of the simmering zeitgeist. One of those bubbles reaches up near the top today at Butler University,… Continue Reading
Somehow, the Los Angeles Galaxy lost its playoff game against the Seattle Sounders, but is still advancing to the MLS Cup. I don’t rightly understand how this works. Seems to me if you lose a playoff game, you should get… Continue Reading