Vox

Musings, rants, rambling, general nonsense

So True…

Thomas Sowell writes in his Random Thoughts: Nightmare for the 2008 Presidential election: Hillary Clinton versus John McCain. I wouldn’t know whether to vote Libertarian or move to Australia. Of course, Lori wouldn’t mind an excuse to move to Australia 😉 ✏

Quality, Message…Or Mass Appeal?

Over at Chasing the Wind, Michael posts about the wide gap between movies that appeal to the general public (as evidenced by their high box office takes) and movies that appeal to the ‘critics’ and Hollywood elite (as evidenced by their award nominations). They have a lively little discussion going in the comments, but I […]

Whoosh

This news surprises me, and not because I saw the show and liked it. I actually meant to watch it and forgot. What surprises me is that they felt the show was worthy of a pilot, but not worthy of a second show. Either it was so bad it should never have gotten the green, […]

Logic of B & B

I was going through my massive collection of email and found this – from 2002. Sure, “Learn Logic with Beavis and Butthead!” is a bit dated, but it’s funny. ✏

Is This Ironic?

Oprah’s last book club pick, touted as a wholly factual autobiography, was A Million Little Pieces. She apparently doesn’t have a problem with the fact that it was in fact a big work of fiction (and had it been presented as such, I would have no problem, either). Now she has picked Elie Wiesel’s autobiographical […]

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