Why we should consider flogging over prisonThe author of ’In Defense of Flogging’ on lashings, chain gangs, and minimum prison sentences
Feelin’ Down in South ParkI can’t say I really loved last night’s South Park episode, the last of the spring-summer season, but it was certainly one of the...
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The Season That Slaughtered the SitcomI was revisiting NewsRadio season 5, and on one of the commentaries, Paul Simms mentioned a season "where NBC had 18 sitcoms. So...
I fought the lawn, and the lawn wonFESCHUK: Every year I dream of a verdant backyard, and I wind up a raving weed whacker
From Movies to TV and Back AgainAnother day, another article about feature film directors doing television . There have been a couple of others lately. Scorsese...
U.S. EPA announces "environmental objections" to oil sands pipelineThe US Environmental Protection Agency has sent a letter to the State Department raising "environmental objections" to...
Robert Mitchum Hates Himself For Being HerePhil Rosenthal, in his memoir and most recently in his podcast interview with Marc Maron , likes to talk about his first writing...
Insert Weiner Joke HereHere’s some video of Anthony Weiner’s press conference, where he admitted that the most obvious explanation was the correct one:...
Telejournalist AwardsThe announcement of nominations for something called the Broadcast TV Journalists Association Awards led me on a search to find...