movies
TCM Thrillers (August 2 – 8)

This week: * Monday—Poe-tic justice. * Tuesday—An amorous computer. * Wednesday—An e...

books
Prose Fiction Update With A Bit of Poetry

Another week, another passel of links into the wide, wide world of wondrous word-smith...

scitech
Evolution—You’d Think That After a Century of Torture Somebody Would Admit the Truth

Brian Thomas at ICR reports that "100 Years of Fruit Fly Tests Show No Evolution": Fruit f...

philosophy
Are You Sane? You May Soon Be the Only One Who Is

Reuters, a not altogether reliable news agency, reports that the new edition of the Diagno...

people
Reagan v. Obama Smackdown on Socialized Medicine

Well, it's sort of a smackdown, with a dead man exhibiting far more good sense than a livi...

journalism
The Ugly Face of Intolerance—From the “Victims” of Intolerance

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is conducting a summer tour of twenty-three c...

art
For One Museum, Patriotism Doesn’t Draw a Crowd

Even where one might think it to be popular, patriotism is not an easy sell. In Georgia, s...

books
Dick Francis, Manly Novelist

A while back I read Dick Francis' mystery, Decider, and decided I'd be reading more. So I ...

commerce
Milton Friedman, Thou Should’st Be Living at This Hour!

Gary Wolfram, in a commentary on The Business & Media Institute website, notes: Today,...

journalism
Can What We Read about Scientific Matters Be Trusted?

If you think scientists and the media that "report" their findings are somehow "objectiv...

scitech
Is It Too Soon to Worry about an American Police State—or Too Late?

By Mike Gray On The Freeman Online weblog, Wendy McElroy sees something profoundly un-A...

manners-and-morals
NFL’s Urlacher Not Bothered by ‘Neo-Nazi’ Slur

Brian Urlacher of the NFL's Chicago Bears showed yesterday how a gentleman handles being t...

commerce
‘Progressive’ Nonprofit Urges Politically Themed Movies

A public policy focused nonprofit is getting into the movie business. It wants Hollywood t...

mysteries
Weak Resolution Mars ‘Rizzoli and Isles’ Episode

Yesterday, you may recall, I pointed out two TNT crime dramas with overt political message...

worldviews
What Constitutes True Science?—Frank Tipler Has an Answer

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” — Richard Feynman Frank Tip...

mysteries
TNT Crime Dramas Push Political Points

I have long argued that contemporary U.S. entertainment offers a much greater variety of i...

journalism
Klavan on Media Diversity

Well-said by novelist, screenwriter, and essayist Andrew Klavan, on who's really for diver...

culture101
Remembering the Silver Fox

By Larry Kaufmann Probably no greatly popular American singer had less desire to be a sup...

journalism
Shirley Sherrod, Racism, Fox News and a Raw Deal

I've been too busy with paying work to read everything on this kerfuffle. But I see now t...

commerce
Wish Upon a Star—The Chimera of Cost-effective Solar Power

According to Jeff Perren at Pajamas Media, the President is wishing upon a star—the su...

music
Asia on DirecTV

DVR alert: The original lineup of Asia performs in concert in a broadcast on DirecTV tonig...

movies
TCM Thrillers (July 26 – August 1)

This week: * Monday—William Powell gets forgetful, with dire consequences. * Tuesday—M...

books
Prose Fiction Update

For your reading pleasure, as the work week comes to a close. Spend some time this weeke...

commerce
Is Google Obama’s Halliburton?

I'm not prone to spreading conspiracy theories, but the recent story referenced in the pos...

journalism
Journolist Scandal Documents Rampant Media Bias

By Ben Domenech The blockbuster series of Daily Caller reports on the Journolist—culled...

movies
Real ‘Inception’ Star Is Writer-Director Nolan’s Imaginative Vision

By Arthur Briggs At AMC’s flagship theater in midtown Manhattan, I caught the 6:30 sh...

journalism
TWA 800 and the Bodyguard of Lies

"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of li...

comic-books-graphic-novels
‘Hellboy’ to Don Purple Robe

The new Hellboy graphic novel arc hits the newsstands August 4, and the story takes an amu...

manners-and-morals
Professor Fired for Teaching Catholic Belief in a Catholic Class

By Daniel Crandall Here's yet another case of reality intruding where only the satirica...

commerce
‘Inception’ Gets Big Reception at U.S. Box Office

Christopher Nolan's mindbending sci-fi thriller Inception opened spectacularly at the U.S....

manners-and-morals
Kathy Griffin Reaches New Low, Boycott Suggested

The professional snotty bore and antinomian terror Kathy Griffin, who bills herself as a c...

television
‘Adventure Time’ Is Good, Clean, Surrealistic Fun

W. S. Moore III recommends 'Adventure Time' for ten-year-old boys of all ages and either s...

books
Ten Books for Conservatives (podcast)

From Accuracy in Media, in a podcast Don Irvine talks with Dr. Benjamin Wiker, author of 1...