Salon. At age ten, still beating the odds. Congratulations!

Perhaps children’s author Philip Pullmam continues to whine about the success of C.S. Lewis’s Narnia stories because he knows none of his own agitprop will be turned into big-budget movies anytime soon. Who knows? I’m not a huge fan of Lewis’s fiction myself, but Michael Nelson does a nice job here of explaining why Pullman’s… Continue reading

John Derbyshire on the New Yorker’s 12/05 issue feature on the Dover, PA Intelligent Design case: The clearest indicator Talbot could find was, in fact, that people who avidly read the local newspapers were anti-I.D., while people who scorned to read them were pro-I.D. This is odd, since one of the two local papers, the… Continue reading

Why do I have the feeling they are going to ruin it? Sky One is in talks to bring back the adventure series, which starred Patrick McGoohan as Prisoner Number 6. The series, which made its debut 1967, is today credited by its fans as being ahead of its time. Featuring McGoohan as a former… Continue reading

Well…I guess this was a just a matter of time. We should be hearing about this from Pat Robertson fairly soon, no doubt.