Category: Media

The Star Wars Holiday Special! (1978)

The Star Wars Holiday Special! (1978)

| December 22, 2008 | Reply

Courtesy of Ace of Spades comes the most reviled, most wretched “holiday special” ever produced. First, here’s the Vanity Fair article to give you the entire ugly background: In the summer of 1978, Bruce Vilanch had a bad feeling about the Star Wars television special he’d been hired to write. A veteran of the comedy […]

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Election 2008 – You Are Right To Mistrust The Polls

Election 2008 – You Are Right To Mistrust The Polls

| October 19, 2008 | Reply

One of the most annoying and anti-climatic parts of this rather sad and miserable election cycle has been the faux-drama of the polls. In absence of any real reporting on the details of either candidate’s plans, background or personality, the media focuses more and more on the virtual horse race conducted via the polls. Websites […]

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McCain images of the day

McCain images of the day

| September 15, 2008 | Reply

As I noted earlier, I actually like the underlit photograph of John McCain that moonbat photographer Jill Greenberg secretly shot while taking his photograph for the cover of The Atlantic. S. Weasel has now done her own photoshop of the underlit image: It sort of says, “Vote for me or die.” Heh. And here’s an […]

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“US Weekly” editor gets shredded by Megyn Kelly

“US Weekly” editor gets shredded by Megyn Kelly

| September 3, 2008 | Reply

US Magazine of course had its infamous cover story this week on Sarah Palin, titled “Babies, Lies, and Scandal”. Bradley Jacobs, the senior editor for US Weekly, has his head handed to him by Megyn Kelly at Fox News by virtue of the fact that she actually read the story: Hat tip to The Jawa […]

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Rating Obama’s speech

Rating Obama’s speech

| August 29, 2008 | 1 Reply

All in all, I thought it a very powerful, well-delivered speech. He is, without a doubt, the best orator that the Democrats have put forward since JFK; he is, I think, more polished than Reagan, though Reagan knew how to be folksy without sounding either stupid or condescending. I thought his attacks against McCain were […]

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Know what impresses me about “The Dark Knight”?

Know what impresses me about “The Dark Knight”?

| July 16, 2008 | Reply

No, not the movie itself — I haven’t seen it yet, though I do have tickets for Friday night. It’s the movie’s title: “The Dark Knight”. It’s not “Batman: The Dark Knight” or worse yet “Batman II: The Dark Knight” (though I guess technically you’d have to call it “Batman VI: The Dark Knight”). It’s […]

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How many times have you read this?

How many times have you read this?

| July 11, 2008 | Reply

Just fill in the blanks: An ineffectual international organisation yesterday issued a stark warning about a situation it has absolutely no power to change, the latest in a series of self-serving interventions by toothless intergovernmental bodies. “We are seriously concerned about this most serious outbreak of seriousness,” said the head of the institution, either a […]

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“The Andromeda Strain”: a brief review (w/spoilers)

“The Andromeda Strain”: a brief review (w/spoilers)

| May 28, 2008 | 2 Replies

OK, I wrote an initial review after watching Part 1 of A&E’s miniseries, “The Andromeda Strain”. It was goofy and heavy-handed in its political agenda, but was still a bit fun, and I was waiting to see how Part 2 went. So now I’ve watched Part 2, which (IMHO) descended from goofiness into full-blown stupidity. […]

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Outrageous behavior by the TSA

Outrageous behavior by the TSA

| May 26, 2008 | Reply

Jeffrey Denning is a former TSA air marshal who has been serving in Iraq with the US Army Reserve. He just returned home only to face immediately a TSA investigation into an e-mail he received and forward asking “current and former air marshals to talk to CNN”: My wife and I had an interesting conversation […]

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“The Andromeda Strain” (pt. 1): a brief review (w/spoilers)

“The Andromeda Strain” (pt. 1): a brief review (w/spoilers)

| May 26, 2008 | 1 Reply

OK, Sandra and I just finished watching the first two hours of A&E’s mini-series, “The Andromeda Strain”, based on the Michael Crichton novel. Sandra, about 45 minutes into tonight’s showing, turned to me and said, “This is like a SciFi Channel movie, but made with better actors.” What makes that really funny is that she […]

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