Prime-Time Cartoons And the Fourth WallOne more thing tangentially related to the premiere of Sit Down, Shut Up : one of the things most commented-upon (apart from the...
The SAG Thing? Still Going OnThe unresolved situation with the Screen Actors’ Guild has been going on so long that it’s almost hard to remember a time when...
The Taliban: local or international threat (III)I believe the latter. See here and here . John Mueller disagrees : "Multiple sources, including Lawrence Wright’s book The Looming...
Prime-Time Cartoons That Don’t Look The Way They SoundI’m not too impressed with Sit Down, Shut Up , and neither are Fox’s viewers , who, like me, still enjoy King of the Hill more...
It Was the Best Ebay Auction Ever, And They Would Have Shipped To CanadaAfter the recent talk of Texas secession , someone had the smart idea of putting the state up for auction on Ebay. ("Shipping to...
How to beat an insurgency by killing fewer people (II)My colleague Andrew Potter blogged a few weeks ago about Thomas Ricks’ new book, The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the...
Weekend Viewing: TALES OF THE GOLD MONKEYTV networks are always making shows that are "inspired" by recently-popular movies, but they usually try to disguise their...
Don’t stop the presses!Opening weekend: ’State of Play’ revives the retro romance of the crusading newspaper reporter
Obama releases secret interrogation memos from the Bush eraTechniques discussed include sleep deprivation, various types of "slapping" and the use of nudity and diapers