By • Feb 23,2010

Academese is *so* annoying

There really is nothing worse than reading academics do film analysis. Consider this passage on George Romero’s The Crazies in Tony Williams’ George Romero: Knight of the Living Dead: The...

By • Feb 22,2010

The two types of terrorism

In one way, I agree with all of the people who have clamored to label Joe Stack a terrorist. He did, after all, commit murder with the intent of spreading...

By • Feb 22,2010

Matt Labash on Haiti

What, you thought just because the week of Labash had passed I was going to stop shilling for him? Obviously you don’t know me. I promise not to hock his...

By • Feb 21,2010

The next great bubble: Carbon Trading!

Via The Corner I saw this Telegraph blog post: And here’s the great thing about it. Unlike traditional commodities markets, which will eventually involve delivery to someone in physical form,...

By • Feb 21,2010

Piracy isn't criminal, huh?

Tell that to Robert Henderson: His plan was to use that recording to sell DVDs, but he was apprehended as part of an MPAA investigation. We’ve now learned (via The...