Warren Buffett quotes Wayne Gretzky & other stuffWarren Buffett quotes Wayne Gretzky to explain why he’s buying lots U.S. stocks right now. And Buffett, an Obama supporter, might...
in our world, the only plummer worth mentioning in presidential debates is named jakeJoin us over at the Couch Boys blog , why not, where mediocrity is our mantra and success eludes us like some ghostly mistress...
First Prime-Time TV Sex Scene?Jill Golick has a great post on "Six Unforgettable TV Sex Scenes." All of them, of course, are from cable or non-U.S. TV, where...
MentalThe Mentalist is the third new show to get a full-season pickup , following 90210 and Fringe . The 90210 pickup was more like the...
Film Reviews: Handling the truth in ’W,’ ’Passchendaele,’ ’Battle in Seattle’ and ’Happy-Go-Lucky’It never rains, it pours. This week the big screen is teeming with history and politics. From America, fairly recent events are...
Hefti, Hefti, HeftiOn a day when everybody, and also me, is linking to a clip from the ’60s Batman , the composer of that memorable theme song has...
There Will Be No Mudslinging in This Campaign!Oh, my God. I know other, bigger blogs have already posted this clip, but this is such an uncanny prediction of the U.S. 2008...
Networks, Beware the World Series!As we prepare ourselves for the very real possibility of a Tampa vs. Philadelphia World Series, TV network executives are probably...
American conservatives grapple with Cdn election...and ask: Why don’t Canadian conservatives support Quebec secession? Law professor Ilya Somin writes: Hmm? Why did Americans...
Ignatieff spokeCome to think of it, Michael Ignatieff has been talking about rebuilding parties for quite some time. Back in the spring of...