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Big Hollywood : Whitney Houston Dead at 48, Cause Not Yet Known

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:17:24 +0000

Well, I guess being part of the one percent isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Big Government : Court: CA Same-Sex Marriage Ban Unconstitutional

Tue, 7 Feb 2012 19:12:49 +0000

"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." The White Queen. I've often found this to be true of Democrats: it's why I can't be one. I have a real problem with believing impossible things, and can't even see the reason behind it. To believe that a man and a man are exactly the same as a man and a woman. To believe that slicing up a living, unborn child and flushing them down the toilet is exercising a woman's right to privacy. To believe that the oceans are rising when a quick trip to the beach proves they aren't. To believe that stealing money from one group of citizens will somehow improve the lot of another group of citizens. Gad. Sometimes it's frightening to watch them, because it's so much like watching insane people conversing with their invisible friends. Gad. They rejoice when some official confirms their impossible worldview: behold, the 9th Circuit has ruled that the Emperor's new clothes are as brilliant and dazzling as the sun. Huzzah. Gad.

Big Government : Obama, You're No Jack Kennedy

Sat, 4 Feb 2012 19:20:31 +0000

"then Senator John F. Kennedy Jr.?" I don't think John John was even born in 1959, was he?

Big Hollywood : 'Wings' (1927) Blu-ray Review: Today's Filmmakers Can Learn Much from This 85-Year-Old Classic

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:48:29 +0000

Surprising how many people don't like silent movies. I've never understood it, but there it is. Don't you like John Ford? Many of his best movies were silents: The Iron Horse, 3 Bad Men, Hangman's House, which featured an extra named Marion Morrison. What about King Vidor's amazing movies: The Crowd, The Big Parade (a better war movie than Wings, much!). What's funnier than Buster Keaton's movies: One Week, Our Hospitality, and speaking of war movies, what Civil War movie ever made matches The General for authenticity of detail? Heck, even WC Fields was funny in silents: So's Your Old Man was much funnier than the sound version, You're Telling Me. What about Sunrise, or anything else by FW Murnau? Heck, The Passion of Joan of Arc, a French silent, was the best movie EVER made about the subject. How about Lulu? Broken Blossoms? Cabinet of Dr. Caligari? Not to mention Intolerance, Birth of a Nation, Ben Hur (starring Ramon Navarra), and, of course, Charles Chaplin and his little gems. What about Lon Chaney: The Unknown, The Unholy Three, Phantom of the Opera, The Penalty. How about Greed, or Foolish Wives, even? I haven't even scratched the surface of the silents that are available on DVD. It's rich ground. Seriously. You're missing a lot. Back then they didn't need dialogue. They had faces.

Big Journalism : CBS Features Zero Pro-Lifers in March for Life Photo Essay Until Readers Point Out Exclusion

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:09:50 +0000

Same thing happens here in San Francisco. Every year the March for Life is the largest protest of the year, attracting thousands. I've seen exactly one article in the mainstream media here, and it was completely distorted, claiming that the 20 or so pro-abortion protestors somehow equaled the thousands of pro-life marchers. Yet every year, local bloggers post incredible photos of the huge crowds marching for the rights of the unborn here in San Francisco, allegedly the liberal center of America. Ah, well, what can you expect from a pig but a grunt?

Big Hollywood : 'Heavenly Creatures' Blu-ray Review: Still Director Peter Jackson's Greatest Film

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:13:51 +0000

Hmm. I don't get it. I recently watched it again, and felt the same bored, impatient, oh, why-don't-they-just-shut-up feelings about the characters and the movie that I felt when I first saw it in the theater years ago. I felt the same about his Lord of the Rings movies. I tried once to watch one of them, and got so completely bored that I returned the video unwatched. Back in the '70s when everyone was reading Tolkein, I felt the same way: the characters are all totally made up and have nothing to do with any discernable or recognizable reality -- what's the point? Then again, when I was a kid I didn't like fairy tales either, and I've always hated science fiction. Pehaps it's a genetic deficiency, who knows? Put me in front of a Star Wars movie and my eyes just glaze over. Putting a couple of adolescent, and therefore boring, girls in a fantasy movie is just as soporific to me. If this was Jackson's best, he's got little to brag about.

Big Journalism : SF Weekly Tries to Undo Pelosi Retirement Story

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:21:08 +0000

Fascinating: "obligation to her donors." So, I guess she's talking about her real employers. Obviously not the voters. Heck, what does a Congress-person make? $150K a year or so? To someone worth $400 million like Nancy Pelosi, it's chicken feed, not even noticeable. These people are truly swine. I recall working (as a temp) in a law firm a year or so ago, and we regularly received calls from Ms. Pelosi, at least on a weekly basis but more often twice or three times a week, ALWAYS asking for money. I assume we weren't the only law firm she called, or indeed the only business. After a while, it dawned on me that asking people for money was what she probably does more than anything else. She must spend hours a day calling people trying to wheedle money out of them. Those mean old donors...

Big Hollywood : Top 15 Christmas Moments in TV and Film

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 01:45:00 +0000

Oh, these young people... Elf? Muppets? Ah-nold? Those are your ideas of Christmas movies? How about Stalag 17? Or the Lemon Drop Kid? Or We're No Angels (the one with Humphrey Bogart)? Holiday Inn? Scrooge? Remember the Night? White Christmas? Seems to me the new movies listed in this post all just look like Santa Claus Conquers The Martians. Yuck.

Big Hollywood : Red Letter Media Eviscerates 'Indy 4's' Awful Storytelling and Left-Wing Politics

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 03:05:34 +0000

"Moral outrage" card? Isn't that what liberals use? So why are you expecting Nolte to use it? I guess next you'll be expecting him to use the race card. Ah, well, that's what leftists are there for: to spew moral outrage over us wicked Republicans. Feel free; I'm sure it'll have the same effect it usually does.

Big Hollywood : Red Letter Media Eviscerates 'Indy 4's' Awful Storytelling and Left-Wing Politics

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 03:01:54 +0000

Oh, low BROW; that's what he meant. Odd that he disapproves of something he can't even spell. I guess it is low brow, compared to the stuff most leftists watch: MSNBC, the View, Jon Stewart. Yep, those incredibly sophisticated folks certainly leave the rest of us in the dust. Here's one of their latest insights: http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2011/12/1... I guess you're right. Us right wingers are so low rent.

Big Hollywood : Red Letter Media Eviscerates 'Indy 4's' Awful Storytelling and Left-Wing Politics

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:33:38 +0000

Plinkett's a right winger? Who'da thought. What's "low bro?" I tell you, these sophisticated left wingers sure can be confusing...

Big Journalism : Cokie Roberts, Please Provide One Example of a Republican Who Wants Economy to Get Worse

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:59:12 +0000

Oh, sure we do. Republicans not only want the economy to fail, we also want dirty air and water, bad roads, worse schools, people dying in the streets due to lack of health care, and, most importantly, long, thin black moustaches to twirl while it all happens. Bwa-ha-ha-ha. And now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go tie Little Nell to the railroad tracks. Jeeze, can we just admit to every evil thing ever and be left alone? No, didn't think so.

Big Journalism : RIP Christopher Hitchens

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:39:48 +0000

RIP, M. Hitchens. Thanks for all the brilliant writing, and for never being predictable. Sometimes he liked to ride hobby horses, like his inability to come to grips with religion, but overall his thinking was sound, I reckon. What can I say? Leftism dies hard, and converts come with their own baggage, don't we? Like the author, I'm one of those former Democrats who were first persuaded by Hitchens' writings, among others. He'll be missed; few writers nowadays match his style.

Big Government : Sunday Open Thread: Fascism Edition

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:59:30 +0000

Ah, yes, the guy who killed my children's great-grandfather, Che Guevara. At the time, their great-grandfather was a frail old man in his 80s living in Cuba. He hadn't been involved with the Batista government at all, but had many years earlier worked as a diplomat for an earlier government. That was enough for Che. The family heard that he had to be seated against a wall when they shot him, since he was dying of cancer at the time. Every time I've pointed that out to people who wear Che T-shirts, they invariably and inevitably tell me that Che probably thought he had a good reason to kill a helpless old man in his 80s. Has anyone ever told you, on hearing of the death of one of your relatives, that your relative probably deserved to die? It's not a pleasant experience. Honestly, leftists are awful people.

Big Government : The First Amendment DOES NOT Protect #OccupyWallStreet

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:31:18 +0000

See what I mean? I should stop believing my own eyes and believe you, right? So I guess when I look at my Social Security statement, they're lying. And when I see that my income went up during Republican administrations, I guess I was really living on the street starving to death and didn't know it. And of course, Congress's makeup has no bearing, right? So that a Democrat President working with a Republican Congress might have better outcomes than a Democrat President working with a Democrat Congress? Sodahead? (!!??) If you're going to use appeals to authority, you might choose a better source than a pop website. Thanks for proving my point, Chico!

Big Journalism : The Mob And Media War On Police

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:19:33 +0000

Laugh all you want, we don't mind. See, we can take it. Unlike liberals, we're the party with a sense of humor, which is why we can laugh at OWS and you can't. "Baggers?" Do you eat with that mouth?

Big Journalism : Frank Rich: Obama's Just Like JFK Because JFK Was Killed With Hate

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:15:04 +0000

Sorry, old man, I was educated in private schools, like the Kennedies. And just saying "you are wrong on all points" and impugning my education is not a rebuttal. Besides, I was speaking from my experience, not my education. Some of us were actually old enough to read newspapers and follow current events back then. You're not the only Oldman, Rick.

Big Government : The First Amendment DOES NOT Protect #OccupyWallStreet

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:09:41 +0000

If Republicans are working AGAINST my interests, why has it been that historically I have done much better (financially) under Republican administrations and/or Republican majorities in Congress? It's as easy as looking at a Social Security statement: My salary is weak and anemic during the Carter years, good and growing all through the Reagan administration, down again a bit during the early Clinton years but back up again after the Republican mid-term sweep in the early 90s, great guns during the Bush administration, two years of unemployment under the Democratic congress and Obama's administration, and then a new job at a higher salary just after the Republican landslide of 2010. From looking at that, I quickly conclude that I'm better off when the Republicans hold power. Yet Democrats continually tell me the opposite of my experience. It's why I call them the Chico Marx party, after the famous Chico Marx quote: "Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?" I'll stick with my own eyes, thanks.

Big Journalism : Frank Rich: Obama's Just Like JFK Because JFK Was Killed With Hate

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 07:31:04 +0000

Hmm. I suppose Kennedy's escalating the Berlin standoff, leading to the Berlin wall and the Cuban missile crisis, was JFK "wanting peace with soviet Russia." Also, all his speeches about "missile gaps" and "catching up to the soviets," not to mention his space program which was basically a competition with the Soviets, were just his way of making peace? Interesting way of showing it. And if he opposed the Vietnam war, why did he send in troops and advisors? Interesting that he was "killed by the military industrial complex," since he did so much during his presidency to build it up. Those of us who remember President Super Military Hawk, I mean Kennedy, don't remember the peace maker you reference in your comment.

Big Journalism : Frank Rich: Obama's Just Like JFK Because JFK Was Killed With Hate

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 07:21:39 +0000

Excellent article! Yes, every time some liberal I know tells me that old, tired story that Kennedy was killed by some "climage of hate" I ask them, well, if that's true, why isn't George W. Bush dead? Wasn't the hatred surrounding him much more noticeable? How big a "cloud of hate" is required to actually cause death? Unbelievable. Gad, those people are tiring, aren't they? It's as if they'll dream up the wildest stories imaginable rather than admit that a leftwinger somewhere did something wrong. It's why I call liberals the Mary Poppins Party -- practically perfect in every way.