May 29,2008
Battle Royale
As James mentioned last week, Battle Royale is a fine example of modern Japanese cinema. And here comes the AV Club with tons more info on the film. One quibble,...
May 29,2008
Copying without plagiarizing
Ever since I got into the journalism biz–way back in the halcyon days of 2004–I’ve noticed an interesting dilemma: Journalists at large, national outlets will steal ideas and other people’s...
May 29,2008
Is Freedom Antidemocratic?
That’s a heavily rhetorical question that I might not live up to in this post, but I’ll try anyway for the purposes of casting a sharp, counterintuitive argument in the...
May 29,2008
Mechanical Animals: Still Animals
Two monkeys with tiny sensors in their brains have learned to control a mechanical arm with just their thoughts, using it to reach for and grab food and even to...
May 28,2008
The Other Dementia: Hillary in Hillaryland
Thru Andrew, I see her condition has worsened: I am in this race for all the women in their nineties who’ve told me they were born before women could vote,...