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The Heritage Foundry : Ashton Kutcher and the Regulatory Burden

Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:42:13 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlVDGmjz7eM 3 minute clip about that exact thing. As you say... it's how it's always been.

Big Hollywood : NBC's 'Grimm' Recycles Vile Antisemitic Stereotypes

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:40:00 +0000

The correct abbreviation for the name Hoban Washburne" is "Wash" not "Hoban." http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0003808/ /nerd *** Totally agree that the werewolf is the best character. I actually stopped watching the show after 3 or 4 episodes. it was all right, I suppose, but I have other things I prefer to watching tv, so unless a show is "OMG Awesome" (like Castle) then I generally don't stick with it anymore.

Big Government : Tuesday Open Thread: Slavery Edition

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:10:44 +0000

Another excellent book that delves into the origins of slavery in the Americas is 1493 by Charles C Mann. Fascinating stuff. http://www.amazon.com/1493-Uncovering-World-Colum...

Big Hollywood : 'Hunger Games' Book Trilogy Celebrates Freedom, Smaller Government

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:57:09 +0000

Don't forget David Brin's The Postman that didn't have any justice done to it when it was turned into a movie.

Big Hollywood : BH Interview: Adam Baldwin On Saying Farewell to 'Chuck,' Being Openly Conservative in Hollywood

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:29:37 +0000

Chuck really lost me during the 3rd season. I absolutely loved seasons 1 and 2, but in the 3rd season it seemed like the Chuck character got too angsty for me to relate to. Beyond that, the plot of every episode seemed to follow the formula of "Chuck finds something out/gets into a bad situation, refuses to tell Sarah thinking she'll hate him for it when there's actually no possible way she'd hate him for the information/situation, though the idiotic and pathetic attempt at covering it up are another thing entirely, Sarah finds out anyway, Sarah enlists Casey to help and they fix the problem in spite of Chuck's bumbling incompetence, Sarah is surprised he thought she'd hate him for the information/situation and freely forgives him his pathetic attempts at a coverup. Casey stoically fades into the background. Fin" I can deal with that formula once or twice a season and overlook it, but when it becomes every episode? Not so much. As much as I love Jayne Cobb, er, Adam Baldwin, and as nice as Ms. Strahovski is to look at. . . it couldn't keep me watching. I don't know that I'll ever watch seasons 4 and 5 on DVD/streaming either. The show simply lost me. And I feel kinda bad about that, since I wanted to continue to love it as much as I did in the 1st 2 seasons. Such is life.

Big Hollywood : 'Napoleon Dynamite' Star John Heder Avoids Raunchy Roles, Supports Fellow Mormon Romney

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:27:26 +0000

Dew 1st, DrP only if I can't get Dew.

Big Hollywood : Adam Carolla Defends Mitt Romney Against Occupy-Style Groupthink

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:16:59 +0000

I grew up around a lot of rich folks in the NW Chicago suburbs. I never knew they had money unless or until my dad told me, and if he ever did it was to hold them up as examples of people I should emulate -- not for their riches, but for the fact that they were kind and generous people and they used what they had to do good and to make the world around them a better place. I had no idea how wealthy they were becuz they didn't live like "the rich." They had sufficient for their needs and lived like that, and the rest they gave to charity or invested back into their businesses so they could employ more people and so forth. They're simply some of the best people I've ever had the fortune to know, and their having money allowed them to be better since they could do more. I was unemployed for a year or so ago and in one of the career workshops I went to, the focus was always on "get the best job you can, don't settle" and the reasoning was: The better your job, the more you can give to charity or use to better your fellow man's circumstances." As a result of all this, I've always seen "the rich" as people to emulate and to try to become, not as evil, greedy misers.

Big Hollywood : Daily Call Sheet: Bane Said What?, 'Dragon Tattoo' Review, and Why 'Voyager' Blows

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:38:12 +0000

Had? In the episode of Grimm she guest starred in a few weeks ago I'd still rate her as a "has."

Big Hollywood : Daily Call Sheet: Bane Said What?, 'Dragon Tattoo' Review, and Why 'Voyager' Blows

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:26:01 +0000

I like both, but I definitely prefer B5.

Big Hollywood : 'Tucker and Dale vs. Evil' Review: Turning Hillbilly Stereotypes on Their Bloody Ears

Thu, 1 Dec 2011 17:34:33 +0000

My wife and I watched it on the Amazon streaming service and both laughed our asses off. Simply hilarious!

Big Hollywood : Trailer Talk: 'John Carter' - The Next Big Franchise, or Another 'Prince of Persia?'

Thu, 1 Dec 2011 17:28:56 +0000

A quick google image search of "Persian Women" yields more results looking like "white" women than of ones looking like what most American think of as "Middle Eastern." Americans tend to think all people in the ME are the darker-skinned Arabs, but there are many many many ethnicities, and yes, some of them, including the Persian are and were very light skinned. In case you didn't already know this, "Iran" is a transliteration of the word that we spell as "Aryan."

Big Hollywood : 'Knights of Mayhem' Review: Get Medieval with Professional Jousting Reality Show

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:49:59 +0000

Why do I suddenly hear "Running Man! Running Man!" in my head?

Big Hollywood : Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham: The Joke's on Stand-Up's Critics

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:25:18 +0000

When I grew up, "The Midwest" was Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Texas was part of "The Southwest." Nowadays all the "Great Plains" (Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas, and the Dakotas) states seem to get lumped into "The Midwest" also. But Texas too? Geez, that's a stretch. It seems like almost any "flyover state" is being called "The Midwest" anymore."

Big Hollywood : Ryan Gosling's Big Year: Actor Attains Stardom with Looks, Talent and Class

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:02:53 +0000

"trying to calm the men and diffuse the situation." defuse, not diffuse /spellingnazi Sorry... couldn't resist. . . .

Big Journalism : MSM Outrage Over Anti-Mormon Bigotry Will End Same Day Romney Wins Nomination

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:04:39 +0000

Odd that firms in Utah are subject to the same hiring and firing laws as everywhere else, and this includes discrimination. I've interviewed for hundreds of jobs in Utah (literally) and was never once asked any questions about what religion I belong to nor any questions that could be used to try to discern such a thing -- just like I've never been asked when I lived and worked in my home state of Illinois. The companies where I have worked and where I currently work have employees both Mormon and not. I'm in a company right now with about 100 employees, and of all of them after a year working here I only know for sure that maybe 5 are Mormon, and I assume the 10 or so smokers probably aren't. Beyond that, I have no idea -- it's not something that comes up -- we're here to work, not compare notes about what church we go to. Go blow your smoke somewhere else.

Big Journalism : MSM Outrage Over Anti-Mormon Bigotry Will End Same Day Romney Wins Nomination

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:56:32 +0000

"if he hadn't been convicted of murdering a journalist and burning down the local newspaper building." He was killed in jail awaiting trial for the burning of the newspaper. And this "conviction" for murdering a journalist is the 1st I've ever heard of it. Got a source?

Big Hollywood : Interview: 'Tucker and Dale vs Evil' Director Eli Craig

Fri, 7 Oct 2011 19:05:36 +0000

Based on this article, my wife and I rented it from Amazon's VOD service last night. Wow! I haven't laughed so hard at a movie. . . ever, I don't think. We love us some Alan Tudyk. We also love us some Tyler Labine, so seeing them both in a movie together was a bug draw for us as well.

Big Hollywood : Morning Call Sheet: Perry Mason Lives, Stupid Lawsuits, And Why We Love TV

Wed, 5 Oct 2011 18:54:15 +0000

You're not a curmudgeon at all. At the beginning of the summer there were quite a few movies playing that I kinda wanted to see, but due to my wife having poor health we didn't get out and see them. And I can't say that I care about having missed them. If they show up on a streaming service I can catch them then, and if not. . . so what? I have many other entertainment options that are significantly less expensive.

Big Hollywood : ABC’s ‘Castle’ Recovers From Shaky Season 4 Premiere

Tue, 4 Oct 2011 07:25:01 +0000

My favorite was still their "X-files episode" -- especially the part where he spoke Chinese, Beckett asked where he'd learned it and he said "Some TV show I used to love." I about fell out of my chair laughing at that little in-joke.

Big Hollywood : Time Warner to Offer ESPN-less Cable Package

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:13:24 +0000

Between Amazon Prime, Netflix Streaming, and Hulu Plus, I'm set. I've got a Roku box so I've got 6 hours of Fox News during the day if I want it too. My cable is the basic $13 package, plus internet and that's it. Granted, the other 3 things total about $24 a month between them also, but that $40-ish a month is still WAY less than a "basic digital" package.