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This star vehicle for Peter O’Toole (playing a drunken, rakish movie star reminiscent of Peter O’Toole) delivers big laughs as well as some acute observations on the nature of fame. The movie also opens a window into the world of 1950s live television comedy and the people who made it happen. The supporting cast is [...]
Archive for November, 2011
November 11th, 2011
Category: History
The battle of Gallipoli was of one of the bloodiest of the Great War, particularly so for British colonial units from Australia and New Zealand. Churchill’s plan to secure the Dardanelles was thwarted by stout Turkish troops and a brilliant young commander named Mustafa Kemal. As Ed West relates, that same man, now named Atatürk, [...]
November 10th, 2011
Category: Popular Culture, Woolgathering
Really! Tomorrow is 11-11-11. Happens once a century. And of course, this 11-11-11 will be the best ever, because we have the best way to commemorate it: For those of you with younger children, you can celebrate this way:
November 10th, 2011
James Heckman’s policy proposal offers the long term benefits of increased economic growth and reduced income inequality. To misquote Meatloaf, “2 out of 3 ain’t bad”. What do we do in the short term? Europe’s Southern nations should sell some of their unique assets (such as their tourist sites) to China and Germany to [...]
November 10th, 2011
Category: Campaign 2012, Elections 2010 and 2012
People will be talking for years about Rick Perry’s cringe-inducing inability to remember what he thinks (assuming he does) in the Michigan GOP debate. But his campaign has been such a disaster that this particular moment can hardly be called a turning point. In contrast, Romney has an excellent shot at being the Republican nominee. [...]
November 9th, 2011
In the wake of the good political news last night, especially from Ohio, let us pause and consider these questions from Charlie Pierce over at Esquire (penned before the results were in). Because at the end of the day, they are the ones that matter. And if we can’t answer them, then anything that happened yesterday [...]
November 9th, 2011
Category: Drug Policy, Health and Medicine
Some careful research on Hepatitis C has yielded largely frightening results. The good news is that the virus can be killed by common disinfectants. The bad news is that infectious quantities of the virus can survive on surfaces for seven days, that the virus is commonly found not just on needles but on other injection [...]
November 8th, 2011
Category: Uncategorized
Arrivederci, Silvio. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
November 8th, 2011
Category: Uncategorized
Occupy Bozeman Montana? Or at least, enjoy reading their recent crime report.