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Verhoeven vs. Rice

April 24, 2008

>> It’s odd to think that people like Paul “Basic Instinct” Verhoeven and Anne “Queen of the Damned” Rice put such efforts into writing about the life of Christ – and odder still to find that there is such a wide gap in truth between the two. Verhoeven’s trashy take seems more suitable for a […]

Salvador Dali’s Pinball

April 22, 2008

>> Salvador Dali’s Pinball and other beauty from the Atari Age.

Barack Obama is Your Coolest Professor

April 20, 2008

“Fame,” Rilke wrote, “is the sum total of all the misunderstandings that can gather around a new name.” I bet Barack Obama can quote Rilke when he’s in front of the right audience. He had a good line or two about bitterness. Smart people like to quote Rilke. Read on. Do you remember the first […]

On Giving

April 15, 2008

>> Now this is interesting – the latest research from Barna on tithing: “Not surprisingly, some population groups were more likely than others to have given away at least ten percent of their income. Among the most generous segments were evangelicals (24% of whom tithed); conservatives (12%); people who had prayed, read the Bible and […]

Big Daddy Drew Nails It To the Effing Wall

April 14, 2008

>> This is NSFW, but it couldn’t possibly be more accurate: “This isn’t about selling out. This is about people in the mainstream media failing to recognize the fundamental difference between privileged sportswriting and the kind of **** you find here on Deadspin, and why the latter is important. And the fact that people like […]

Now that’s just Mean, Man

April 14, 2008

>> I think this VDH post does the best job of summarizing everything that’s wrong with Barack Obama’s latest gaffe: saying these kind of things to the San Francisco Democrats is just part of the same thread that started when he complained about the cost of arugula at Whole Foods in Iowa, a state that […]

South Park on Abortion

April 10, 2008

>> My latest post at RS is about South Park on Abortion: “The Ultimate Cheat.” The text is just great: “Abortion is the ultimate form of cheating! You’re cheating nature itself! Why do rich white girls get ahead in life? Because they get abortions when they are young. They get pregnant but they still want […]

Politics of HopeChangeMoney

April 10, 2008

>> This is the new politics: right off the bat, a great big fat lie. See, you don’t understand – once he found there was a market for HopeChange, you can’t expect Barack Obama to pass it up. That’d just be bad business, dontchaknow.

One more reason they can’t make John McCain the Evil candidate

April 9, 2008

>> Ace rightly sums up the idea that “the media attempts to portray every single Republican candidate as Stupid, Crazy, Evil, or Out of Touch (Old) or combinations thereof. Every single one.” Slate reminds us why one of those categories is going to be so hard to sell after years of building McCain up: “McCain […]

Mike Nelson + James Lileks = SWEEEEEEEEET

April 8, 2008

>> The great Mike Nelson of MST3K sat down with James Lileks for a special once in a lifetime ripping of Spider Man 3 – a movie in great need of ripping, let me tell you. It gets worse, not better, when you see it on IMAX. Buy it.

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