Steve Bailey is worth quoting in full on the Portuguese authentic ‘native American’ behind the con job of Casino Gambling in Massachusetts: This has always been less about sovereignty than about the rush by the tribe and its deep-pocketed financial backers, just as elsewhere around the country, to cash in on the Indian Gaming Regulatory… Continue reading
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