Author: Sonny Bunch
By • Feb 20,2009

Remaking bad movies

I’d like to offer a quibble to Mr. Polansky’s argument against the remake of “Friday the 13th,” in which he writes: The original wasn’t remotely frightening, and moreover it represented...

By • Feb 19,2009

Look…

It’s not too often that Jon Chait and I agree on the vagaries of what is offensive and what isn’t, but here we are. Sometimes a monkey is just a...

By • Feb 18,2009

OK, I’ll bite

I don’t understand why this cartoon everyone’s getting worked up about is so offensive. The author is clearly making the point that the bill (and the scattershot stimulus plan in...

By • Feb 17,2009

Dwight Schrute vs. Iran

I haven’t even read Rainn Wilson’s op-ed on the Iranian persecution of their Baha’i minority, but I can tell you that it’s the greatest op-ed ever written. Why? Because Dwight...

By • Feb 16,2009

Hands off my meat

I’m just going to come out and say this: If I have to give up meat to save the Earth, the Earth is screwed. If our planet’s future is one...