The Week In Weak
So, what was weak this week? Trump Wins Again I'd ask, "Honestly, GOP, can't you do something about this?" But I know the answer. They can't. They can't because Trump's…
The Week In Weak
So, what was weak this week? GOP Refuses To Even Consider Obama's Nomination For Scalia's Replacement Mitch McConnell, a.k.a. the reason the phrase "Politics is show business for ugly people"…
The Week in Weak
So here's what we weak this week. Marco Rubio Blows A Main Spring Marco Rubio, candidate beloved of pundits and exhibit B for why I'm disappointed with my generation's offerings this…
The Week in Weak
Here are the weakest things that caught my attention this week. Getting too Happy That Trump Lost A Slate piece captures the attitude: "Donald Trump Lost the Iowa Caucus. Good…
Today In History: January 27th, 1945. The Liberation of Auschwitz
To commemorate this day, I thought I'd put up some footage shot some months after the liberation, when Auschwitz I was being used as a hospital for the treatment of…
On Fandom
The release of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, which I haven't seen and am feeling little-to-no temptation to see, got me thinking about my relationship with the things I claim…
RIP Alan Rickman
Shame we'll hear no more of that voice, heard here in Sweeney Todd. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omD3m-xwBWk&w=560&h=315]
How Corrupt Is Your Country?
Most of my readers are from the U.S. and U.K., two countries which could do better but, as we can see from this map from Transparency International, could also do…
Review: Ian Kershaw’s To Hell and Back. A New Warning From History
Professor Ian Kershaw, best known for his landmark two-volume biography of Adolf Hitler (titled Hubris and Nemesis) takes on a gargantuan project in To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949, a…
Gemma Arrowsmith “Cheer Up!”
When I was a sophomore in college, a person whom I will call Joey P. kept inflicting himself on me. He'd wave and greet me, sometimes from great distances. When…