I’ve blogged several times in the last few months about the Atlas Shrugged movie. It might seem like I’m really fascinated by it, so I’ll try to stop. But first, I’d just like to say that this review of it by P.J. O’Rourke–a conservative who is somewhat sympathetic to Ayn Rand–is pretty funny. However, it […]
Interesting article by Edward Castronova in the WSJ Review about gaming and its morality lessons. An excerpt: I foresee a future in which people who grew up playing hard games outperform those who wasted their youth watching films like ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona.’ The trick is not to set specific hours of media use, but to […]
I will post a link to Wil Shipley’s review of the game Fallout: New Vegas that, suffice it to say, does not really see eye-to-eye with my opinion of the game. The funny thing is, he makes many points I agree with, but none of them were game-ruining for me. (Hat Tip to Hacker News)
National Review praises Sarah Palin: “During an episode of her reality show, the once (and future?) candidate cooked up a mess of hot s’mores and a side of even hotter politics, declaring: ‘This is in honor of Michelle Obama, who said the other day we should not have dessert.’ Palin was being over-generous in her […]
National Review has an interesting piece on the“American exceptionalism” issue. They argue: “The liberal case begins by confusing exceptionalism for jingoism…. It is true that most Americans, and a disproportionate number of conservative Americans, consider this country to be the greatest nation in human history. But what believers in American exceptionalism affirm is a different […]
How ironic would it be if, as suggested by prominent Conservative writer Charles Krauthammer, Julian Assange were prosecuted under the Espionage Act of 1917; an act originally endorsed by the Conservatives’ hated foe; the alleged “Liberal Fascist” Woodrow Wilson?
The Republicans/Tea Partiers are really beginning to show their true beliefs on this WikiLeaks thing. You know, you’d think they would be worried about “too much government power”; but no, they’re calling for imprisonment (or more severe punishment) for Julian Assange. In contrast to this, Ron Paul said: “In a free society we’re supposed to […]
I’d like to do a review of Bethesda Softworks and Obsidian Entertainment‘s game Fallout New Vegas, but the game is so massive and there are so many different ways to play that I don’t see me being able to do that before next September, if I hurry. What I can say is that most of […]
Via Andrew Sullivan, a brutally good review of Dinesh D’Souza’s book The Roots of Obama’s Rage, by Andrew Ferguson, who writes: “Throughout the nineties I heard mainstream Republicans describe the president as a shameless womanizer and a closeted homosexual, a cokehead and a drunk, a wife beater and a wimp, a hick and a Machiavel, […]
[Note: I wrote this post awhile ago, but didn’t publish it. Then I was reminded of it by thingy‘s comments on this post combined with reading this post by Nameless Cynic.] Do you have any favorite works of art, music, literature or entertainment that you really like, but that the vast majority of critics hate? […]