Two Steps Forward…One Step Back Dept.NRO has over the past year improved its science coverage with articles by Jim Manzi backing up John Derbyshire when it comes to evolution, and suggesting conservatives need to be more science literate. Unfortunately, apparently following the “equal time” bullshit approach that NRO would rightfully chortle at when it comes… Continue reading
Joseph Bottum, on the sad news that novelist Thomas M. Disch is dead: Endlessly talented, Tom was always a difficult character, with strange edges and an awkward, unbalanced and finally unbearably sad life. His friend and mentor, the science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick, once turned him into the FBI as a communist spy. He wasn’t,… Continue reading
Fifty Years ago….I actually missed the date: May 8, 1958, when Hammer’s classic version of Dracula was released in the US (as Horror of Dracula). The film made Christopher Lee a star overnight. (It almost type-cast him to death as well.) But the effect it had on cinema is hard to appreciate now. Martin Scorcese… Continue reading
Performance Art: Boston style:Jay Fitzgerald beats me to this beauty. If you can stand the crappy camera work–no wait, just turn around from your screen and listen to the beer-soaked caterwauling. The guy’s blood-alcohol must be 40%…. It should be beyond belief. But it’s not. Because it’s Boston.
Well, this is a shock: A survey released last week found one reason America doesn’t top the list: Baby Boomers are generally miserable compared to other generations. Further, a public opinion poll released by the Pew Research Center in April found that 81 percent of Americans say they believe the country is on the “wrong… Continue reading