Author: Sonny Bunch
By • May 05,2008

Bringing Back the Chick Flick

I saw the Dargis piece Mr. Poulos mentioned this morning and wasn’t sure how to react. On the one hand she’s right: there aren’t too many movies out there starring...

By • May 05,2008

A Path Secured, Part 2

As I mentioned last week, the Clinton camp has been pushing the meme that, regardless of whether or not the delegates from Michigan and Florida are seated, the raw popular...

By • May 02,2008

On Franken and Taxes

I have no real love for Al Franken–he’s annoying, an arch-liberal, and (mostly) unfunny–but I can’t really get up in arms over the fact that he got tripped up by...

By • May 02,2008

Iron Man as Political Rorschach

Iron Man hits wide release today, and my extended thoughts are over at the Standard‘s website. But I would like to expand on one of the points I raise in...

By • May 01,2008

KG's no Zaza

My colleague Dean Barnett is a big Boston sports guy; needless to say he’s pretty excited about the Celtics. Nervous too. And I can’t say I blame him…on paper, the...

By • May 01,2008

Shout Down Order

What Julian and Megan said. If a lesbian speaker came to, say, Bob Jones University, and was subjected to verbal assault and made to feel unsafe by the actions of...