http://thisisanadventure.com Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:35:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Coffee snobbery: we've all experienced it. We've all been frustrated by encounters with our own personal Ravens. Few of us know how to respond with anything other than withholding a tip. But Jeff Simmermon's epic "Hold that espresso between your knees" rant on the subject, following an ... http://thisisanadventure.com/2008/07/on-coffee-snobbery/ I am not supposed to be happy about what Josh Hamilton did the other night. At least, not if I read the sports blogs out there. I'm supposed to put on my shiny pretentiousness hat, given out with every .com purchase on GoDaddy, and approach Hamilton's story with sarcasm ... http://thisisanadventure.com/2008/07/josh-hamilton-a-dream-made-real/ >> Some people have the tendency to see politics in everything. It's often there, yes - I'm sure you could dissect the politics of Dora the Explorer if you wanted to, and without Googling, I'm confident someone has - but it really does detract from just experiencing a work ... http://thisisanadventure.com/2008/07/wall-es-enemies/ My most recent oped over at the Washington Times concerns Barack Obama's rapid political evolution on the issues of gun rights and the death penalty. An excerpt: The second case, of which the Beltway population is very well aware, concerned the first decision in over a century that determines the ... http://thisisanadventure.com/2008/06/oped-evolving-standards-of-politics/ The internet is flooded with movie lists. Search for virtually any variety, any theme, any mishmash of tags and qualities and plot twists, and you can find a top 10, top 20, or even top 100 list. The best Top Films list, by my measure, can be found ... http://thisisanadventure.com/2008/06/ten-beautiful-films-you-may-not-have-seen/ >> If you'd like to take a listen to my latest appearance on BBC Radio - and by latest, I mean the first one in a decade - just give this a turn on your dial, where I debate Daniel Weiss of the Center for American Progress on offshore ... http://thisisanadventure.com/2008/06/im-on-bbc-radio-world-newshour/ Video game ads can be, quite frankly, terrible. If you've watched any TV appealing to the nerd demographic, you've seen them. Horribly forgettable and captive of their genre, they use the same crunching music over and over again, the same jumpy cuts from one FPS kill to the ... http://thisisanadventure.com/2008/06/the-top-10-video-game-ads/ Scarlett Johansson is surprised that Barack Obama responds to her emails. As the Politico reports: Johansson is somewhat shocked that he keeps up their back-and-forth correspondence. “You’d imagine that someone like the senator who is constantly traveling and constantly ‘on’--how can he return these personal e-mails?” she asks. The Weekly Standard's ... http://thisisanadventure.com/2008/06/other-things-that-shock-scarlett-johansson/ >> My latest oped, on the Flight of the Obamacons, is over at the Washington Times. An excerpt: Mr. Kmiec and his small band of Obamacons are the new Lotophagi, the "Lotus Eaters" of Homer's Odyssey. When landing on the territory of the cult-like Lotophagi, Ulysses's crew was given a ... http://thisisanadventure.com/2008/06/latest-oped-flight-of-the-obamacons/ >> "The difference between truth and confusion." http://thisisanadventure.com/2008/06/george-will-vs-stephen-colbert/