I dunno man… longer and darker is not what I’m looking for from a Superman movie… The worst thing that ever happened to WB’s efforts to bring the rest of the DC universe to llife was the unbelievable success and high quality of Nolan’s Batman trilogy. It convinced WB that what fans wanted from DC… Continue reading The Justice League Snyder Cut…
A Real Life Milgram?
Have you seen the mounting evidence that suicide attempts by young people are up… WAY up… during the pandemic lockdowns? And it’s not just teenagers trying to kill themselves… it’s also kids as young as eight-years-old. Eight… What is causing this? and who is responsible? The answer to the former is “the increasingly onerous and… Continue reading A Real Life Milgram?
Moral culpability in the age of COVID
Take a moment to read this. It’s the heartbraking story of how the COVID lockdowns affected one particular town in New Mexico. It incluldes the tragic details of a happy, popular, star quarterback who committed suicide because of the despair he felt over not being able to go to school or play with his team.… Continue reading Moral culpability in the age of COVID
Cancelling the Cancel Culture economy
I’ve always been a huge history buff, and especially the history of the war in Viet Nam. Partly because of that interest, and partly because I just wanted to see a part of the world that wasn’t Europe, I traveled to Viet Nam back in 2000. Most of the sites we visited were done as… Continue reading Cancelling the Cancel Culture economy
They will stop at nothing…
….to keep you from trying to create systems of self-sufficiency… More Panic Porn! AAAAHHHHHH!!!!
Reimagining “Hellton” Academy
In DEAD POETS SOCIETY, Director Peter Weir establishes the villain of the piece in the very first shot… a series of banners carried by students in a start-of-the-school-year procession which read TRADITION, EXCELLENCE, HONOR, DISCIPLINE. Absent from these banners are concepts like ENLIGHTENMENT, KNOWLEDGE, MATURITY, and CRTICIAL THINKING. Later, in a conversation that is meant… Continue reading Reimagining “Hellton” Academy
Thought Experiment
Assume, for a minute, that HR1 becomes law this year. How long will it take for the United States to record more votes in a Presidential Election than there are eligible voters in the country? Set your marker… I’ll go conservative and say 2036. Gotta say, because I love both chaos and great entertainment, I’m… Continue reading Thought Experiment
The Press Has Failed Us
You have to read this Jim Geraghty piece in the National Review where he unpacks the data behind a poll that suggests large majorities of respondents believe that between 1,000 and 10,000 unarmed black men are shot by police officers every year. Jim makes the point that the media are to blame for this egregious… Continue reading The Press Has Failed Us
The Modern Man?
There was a time, perhaps not even that long ago, when a man like Eric Swalwell would have been embarrassed to admit this.
Know what I see?
Texas, Mississippi, and now Connecticut… I see a Preference Cascade.