I now give you a special treat: You will go to the library, or Amazon, and purchase or borrow "Double Star" by the incomparable Robert A Heinlein. Here's a teaser: Someone asks a political operative why he's in politics. His reply? "Everything else is kindergarden games."

Once you've read Double Star the conclusion of Limitless will make sense to you. Enjoy!

I'm surprised you didn't like "Limitless," John. I thoroughly enjoyed it and the ending was upbeat and surprising and wonderful. Perhaps you've been Bradley Coopered-out? If you are annoyed by the actor you wouldn't like the ending. I liked it, in fact I laughed out loud in joy and pumped my fist and our family all high-fived each other.

Also, let's be frank. This is the best drug ever. As in Heinlein's story "Gulf," it defines the one real difference between a Superman and an ordinary man. If given a chance at a superpower, this would be the one I would choose.

Wow, what a great summation of "Dead Poets Society." I thought I would give it another try while I was reading your review because I didn't see the themes you wrote about in the film at all. Instead, I found the film pretentious and ridiculous and harmful. Then I read your last three sentences. Heh. Well done, sir, well done.

We're thrilled with the new Sherlock Holmes. Perfectly updated to a modern world and with energetic young leads, it's captured our teen children's attention as well as ours. We watched the shows together and they love it as much as we do.

Here's the most totally awesome part. The scripts follow Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories. There's great plot twists, gun battles, and no nonsense masculinity. No political correctness. No socialist moralizing. No liberal tell! You'll love this series. Catch it while it's hot and the liberals haven't yet destroyed it.

The reason this little news story is so important is because of optics. The "I can see Russia from my house" remark (actually a lie) and the "$100,000 wardrobe" (also a lie) of Sarah Palin's campaign were stories that resonated with the voters. The impression these stories left was one that Palin found impossible to overcome.

This story resonates the same way. You have vials of blood, a creepy decor complete with Hollywood actors cavorting around in disturbing costumes, and all this going on behind the scenes while the published accounts were all about the oh-so-innocent military family party going on earlier in the day.

The White House is going to try to bury this story deeply. Let's not let them.

My teenage Facebook friends have been all over "Hugo" the last few days. They're telling each other what a waste of time it was and they wished they had their two hours of life back. My mom Facebook friends have been warning other moms that "War Horse" is frightening and horrific to children and they should avoid it.

Social media is unbelievably powerful.

I have the solution to this. Watch last year's shows or even older shows. You can Netflix them and watch the whole season night after night. We spent this fall watching the two seasons of "Jericho" on Netflix and it was a blast to sit down every night for the next Jericho episode. We did the same with "Better off Ted," "Psych" and "Eureka." It's fun!

"Let me help out the producers and writers a bit. Americans are the unambiguous good guys in this war. The jihadis are the bad guys. There is no grey area. We did not “bring it on ourselves,” and we have not only a moral right but a moral obligation to hunt them and their scumbag buddies down anywhere they hide. An American who consorts or sympathizes with them for any reason is a traitor who deserves to be hanged and his corpse tossed in a fetid swamp. Jihadis’ views, ideas, beliefs and grievances merit no respect and have no importance except to the extent that understanding their sick, idiotic ideology allows us to more effectively destroy them."

Kurt, I'd pay for this site to read a paragraph like that. You rock.

After the pedophilia expose of Hollywood revealed here, I understand why this bloated, pokey, cliche ridden mystery with no surprises is such a hit with the Hollywood crowd. The hero is a leftist newspaper reporter who sleeps with every woman he meets -- all those women fall in love with him, of course -- and the only scenes that are written with any skill or effort are the rapes involving very young women.

What I brought away from the novel was a profound sense of the dissolution of the Swedish people. Young women are raised without fathers, engage in sex without boundaries, have children out of wedlock and raise their sons and daughters to live the same sad and meaningless existence. Rape is common, infidelity is even more common, and women are so disposable that lots of them can disappear without anyone really noticing. This is what a society looks like when it becomes entirely secular and Marxist. What a nightmare.

And here's the Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones_on_air...