This weekend’s Rush concert has inspired two thoughts. One: The Nissan Pavillion, though a great venue, is a terribly designed venue. I hate getting there/getting out of there more than...
Christian Hamaker, over at the Arts and Faith message board, suggests I’m veering towards Stevens-territory in my blog post on The Dark Knight from late last week. In other words,...
Dig back through my archives to see a premonition of this piece at AlterNet, “Are Men Having an Identity Crisis?” Me then: Seth Rogen’s chubby frat boy, Steve Carell’s needy...
Psychology without Freud, economics without Marx, philosophy without Hegel: For disciplinary cheerleaders, this confirms intellectual progress. The cloudy old thinkers have made way for new scientific researchers. But at what...
The clip to read is Marc Ambinder’s: This could be one of those unexpected events that forever changes the way the world perceives an issue. Iraq’s Prime Minister agrees with...
First there was her assertion that Knocked Up features “nonexistence of abortion as an option,” which was, on its face, an absurd notion. Then this, on The Dark Knight: In...
