This is what Hollywood has come to: you’re Ving Rhames and you’re Sarah Polley; you’ve both been in some of the best independent and A-List studio movies of the past decade and more. And here you are, signing up to star in a remake of something that doesn’t deserve to be remade: Dawn of the… Continue reading

Metropolitan? Sounds good to me: “I dislike modern American liberalism very much…yet I am at ease in a roomful of New York liberals in a way that, to be truthful about it, I am not in a gathering of red-state evangelicals. Setting aside our actual opinions about this, that or the other, I am aware… Continue reading

The Boston Globe is mounting a big campaign to have the Commonwealth of Massachusetts name the new downtown tunnel segment of Interstate 93 in memory of former U.S. and Mass. House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. over Gov. Romney’s designation of the I-93 section as Liberty Tunnel. A few facts Democratic leaders at the State… Continue reading

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The US military success has prompted some interesting thoughts from Michael Barone: “One of the peculiar features of our country is that we produce incompetent 18-year-olds and remarkably competent 30-year-olds. Americans at 18 typically score lower on standardized tests than 18-year-olds from other advanced countries. Watch them on their first few days working at McDonald’s… Continue reading