Yasujiro Ozu is one of my favorite all-time directors, but I confess that I haven't watched many of his classic films in recent years. The only film I of his I watched last year was one I hadn't seen before, 1931's Tokyo Chorus, which is more...
I swear to Christ that this -- written by a law professor with a Harvard JD -- is not a joke: In the fading days of the Biden administration, Democrats.
Zuck is really letting his fash freak fly: Meta (née Facebook) is deep into a sustained campaign of capitulation to Donald Trump. Last Thursday Mark Zuckerberg named Joel Kaplan as.
A lot of news today, and we're still 13 days from Trump actually being president again. First, Aileen Cannon, with as far as I can tell no jurisdictional authority to do so, blocked the release of Jack Smith's report on Trump's stealing of large numbers of...
Terrific interview with a Ukrainian Su-27 pilot: Like many pilots and other Ukrainians, it took time for Viking to grasp the reality of the war, with the feeling that “I’ll.
Yes I know we're not supposed to pay attention to any of this stuff because it's just all a big distraction. Sue me if I post too long: Donald Trump.
By Samuel Bailey ([email protected]) - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8454588 One more feature of the Soviet Union ends. Ukraine ended Russian natural gas transit through its pipelines on New Year’s Day. The two countries had failed to reach an agreement. Since the collapse of the...
Jeff Bezos Living His Best Life Hey hey what can I do? Amazon will reportedly pay $40 million to license a new documentary on Melania Trump. Puck reported the update.
Friedrich St. Florian, the designer of the World War II Memorial in Washington, died. Can you think of a more pointless piece of public architecture? The World War II Memorial.
Portrait of MEP Jean-Marie LE PEN I don't have an obituary and I wish I had thought of writing one on him, but I think we should all be happy that Jean-Marie Le Pen is dead. Unfortunately, he had children.
So it turns out that one of the most controversial species in the history of American conservation--the snail darter--wasn't an endangered species after all, or even a species. The snail.
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol following a rally with President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. Trump supporters gathered in the.