Your Friday dose of Krauthammer: The government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has had more than 15 months to try to pacify the Sunni insurgency by offering national accords on oil-sharing, provincial elections and de-Baathification. It has done none of these. Instead, Gen. David Petraeus has pacified a considerable number of Sunni tribes with… Continue reading

David Pogue on iMovie 8: “What the [bleep]! What was Apple thinking?” I guess I won’t be upgrading from iLife ’06 anytime soon….

To the age old question (made most famous by Leibniz), why is there something rather than nothing, Sean Carroll wonders, well why not?

Twenty years ago today, I started shooting my first big independent film project… Here are the first takes of a two-week shoot from Boston’s Long Island on August 30th, 1987. The production was Richard the Second. Shot in 1-inch on an Ikegami ITC 730, and Sony portable 1-inch deck. Cast included in these shots, Kadina… Continue reading

Jonathan Gottshall has a review of Frederic Crews’ Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays, which I’ve added to my Wish List.