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...
Feb 20,2009
Google Earth shows US base in Pakistan
Picking up on Mr. Donadio’s post, I thought I’d link to this story in Slate, which describes how Google Earth accidentally confirmed Sen. Feinstein’s comments about the US having secret...
Feb 20,2009
The one that got away
Even as a cartoon, Tom Waits is pretty cool (NSFW, due to some animated nudity). Incidentally, this is an early example of rotoscoping, the technique used in Waking Life. The...
Feb 20,2009
America secretly popular in Asia
There’s a front-page story in today’s WaPo about Hillary Clinton’s listening tour in Asia. Not often reported, but included toward the end of this story, is a bit of data...
Feb 20,2009
Defining victory downwards in Afghanistan? Not yet.
Newsweek called Afghanistan Obama’s Vietnam. Conservatives made the argument for victory. Barack Obama made a significant decision and chose to send an additional 17,000 troops to Afghanistan. I won’t call...