By • Dec 21,2008

Stick to the film criticism…

In an otherwise smart and entertaining (if overly stylized) post at Pajiba on Will Smith’s latest, “Seven Pounds,” Ranylt Richildis writes: [Will Smith’s character] snoops through Treasury files, scans headlines, and...

By • Dec 20,2008

Israel rehashes bad times, Iran wins

The Israelis are launching their third straight day of air strikes into Gaza, dealing themselves what will ultimately be their second self-imposed military defeat in three years. At times like...

By • Dec 19,2008

Naomi Klein: bourgeois vixen?

I realize I’m supposed to find Naomi Klein irritating, and am probably obliged to call attention to her economic illiteracy, but what struck me when reading this recent New Yorker...

By • Dec 19,2008

Damn you, Mick Foley

How am I supposed to top this? I don’t come to wrestling rings and hit people with 2x4s, do I? I don’t jump onto tables with thumbtacks thrown all over...

By • Dec 19,2008

Heroine

I see my guardian angel. She is sitting on the curb sucking bad coffee out of a hole in the lid of a paper cup. I am carrying groceries out...