Jane Austen meets John McTiernan. No, really. The movie will start out as a Victorian/Edwardian-era costume drama of manners and class stratification, which will be interrupted by Predator — yes, the scary dreadlocked alien Hunter Of Humans from the 1980’s… Continue Reading
Didn’t she used to be attractive? What the hell happened? Photo from article in UK Daily Mail about female eyebrow maintenance. Ladies, do not pluck out your eyebrows and then re-paint them on your face. I’m not sure where on… Continue Reading
Coming across this article from a New York criminal defense attorney who is also a mighty law blogger, seeing a similar issue addressed in one of my new favorite blogs (happily, chronicling a solid ass-drubbing the anti-vaccination crowd got in… Continue Reading
Do my ears and eyes deceive me? Or did Jon Stewart do nearly seven minutes of riffing on President Obama on The Daily Show? Yes! Yes, he did! He mocked the Cabinet appointees, Obama’s halting performance during his press conference,… Continue Reading
No, I’m not the only one taking weekly “fishing” trips up Geekback Mountain. Robert Farley has authored the finest and most incisive piece of commentary on current Colonial politics out there. It may be hard to hear, but — Tom… Continue Reading
A case of some interest is making the rounds of the legal blogosphere. Apparently, someone started a blog and it got popular, and then he wrote a book and made some money. The blog, and the book, are called Hot… Continue Reading
Comment of the month posted at Donkelphant: Instead of wasteful fiscally irresponsible and corrupt Republican controlled government spending money we don’t have on Republican pork, constituencies, contributors, and unproven pet ideologies led by a president who couldn’t talk… We now… Continue Reading
It’s not enough to know where a country is. You need to know where major cities are within the countries. You are tested on speed and accuracy. So far, I’ve managed to get 6,577 points with an average error of… Continue Reading
Vodkapundit is way cool. I don’t know where else to go, other maybe Sideways Mencken, to get such an effective mix of Battlestar Galactica references with a blend of political analysis and history.
Still got my hands full with stuff, so not a lot of time to blog and write on my own. But I’ll add this absolutely wonderful piece that I came across in today’s Fish Wrapper. It’s the best of the… Continue Reading