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Bang the drum slowly

First of all, Floyd nails the student loan fiasco per the Occupy Wall Street protest below.

Second, the protest could be ending due to – (waiting for the lightning bolt of irony to tear from the heavens) – a disagreement between OWS organizers and the elected assembly of drum circles. From Megan McArdle, in [...]

Seven economic lies – or Occupy My Colon

Occupy JohnFN’s Campus has officially started, and with the full-throated support of my history professor. To know how she teaches history, it usually involves material from Amy Goodman, Common Dreams, MSNBC and interrupting any student with a competing argument. Politics were held to a minimum the first several weeks, until emotions got the best of [...]

California goes bust

First of all, it’s nice to be back, even if this small appearance may be brief.

In case you’re wondering, I’ve been busy – very busy. I’m writing a lot, as the job demands, and I’m also inching closer to that once distant goal of having a bachelor’s degree. This, as well as raising an [...]

Righteous Breitbart Nation

Andrew Breitbart’s tome “Righteous Indignation” is out. If you somehow missed this event, it’s because you haven’t been to Big Hollywood, where Breitbart’s upcoming book release has locked up the No. 1 spot on the marquee for some time.

As The Atlantic Wire has noted, there is no middle-of-the-road for Breitbart or book reviews [...]

O’Rourke Shrugs

I’ve seen the trailer to “Atlas Shrugged Part One” and color me unimpressed. P.J. O’Rourke, though, has actually seen the movie, which at first observation, appears to be an overbearing, underbudgeted mess.

The movie version of Ayn Rand’s novel treats its source material with such formal, reverent ceremoniousness that the uninitiated will feel they’ve wandered [...]

The Battle of Ohio

Ohio’s Senate Bill 5 passed this afternoon. The bill will go to a final vote before the House soon, where Republicans hold a 19-vote advantage.

Wish I could say I was thrilled with what this encompasses. Despite what the Ohio house accomplishes, collective bargaining will come up to a referendum sometime in the near future, [...]

Saw it coming

Some random dude at Front Page Magazine read the future and predicted what we are now seeing in Ohio and Wisconsin – last year.

An example of what these consequences can lead to can be seen in Ohio, where officials can’t hide behind the monetary printing press or non-existent budgets. Last year Gov. Ted Strickland [...]

The Obama budget

From Captain Andrew “Renault” Sullivan.

… this president is too weak, too cautious, too beholden to politics over policy to lead. In this budget, in his refusal to do anything concrete to tackle the looming entitlement debt, in his failure to address the generational injustice, in his blithe indifference to the increasing danger of [...]

Credit where credit is due

This is quite the statement from Christopher Hitchens, whose last musings on Ronald Reagan occurred just after the President’s death, and weren’t very complimentary. Hitchens has been one Reagan’s biggest critics, and he remains so, as evidenced in most of his latest Slate article. Given that, this rejoinder is quite revealing and may have been [...]

Hitchens gets his genome sequenced

Scientists were able to sequence the DNA of writer/pundit Christopher Hitchens. It is shown above in this photograph.

My sole reason for subscribing to “The Atlantic” was to read Christopher Hitchens’ monthly book reviews. Unfortunately, after his hair and expanding waist, this has seemed to succumbed to the cancer he is now battling in [...]

The Times of our deaths

P.J. O’Rourke doesn’t like the New York Times.

Editorialized the Times: “It is legitimate to hold Republicans and particularly their most virulent supporters in the media responsible for the gale of anger that has produced the vast majority of these threats.” Interesting how a few small changes would make that sentence appall the Times as [...]

A great story

Egypt’s majority Muslim population stuck to its word Thursday night. What had been a promise of solidarity to the weary Coptic community, was honoured, when thousands of Muslims showed up at Coptic Christmas eve mass services in churches around the country and at candle light vigils held outside.From the well-known to the unknown, Muslims had [...]

Trailer Park: The Fast Five/Fast and Furious Five

I’m not sure there is enough left in the well, but going “The Expendables” route by loading up the roster with past stars from the other “Fast and Furious” flicks, as well as Dwayne Johnson, might keep the box office tally going. And that’s the reason this was made, the last movie made nearly [...]

Top Five: The Decade

Did the decade end last year or this year? I always believed it ended on the 10. No matter, here are my Top Fives in Film for the past, er, decade. Read at your own peril, hate at your own whim.

1. Seabiscuit: New Deal preaching aside, a wonderful movie and perhaps the best [...]

Rock and roll is dead

Lenny Kravitz may have had a point, at least in terms of media visibility. Given the hours of coverage of former pop starlets, the usual resident techno shock artists and the like, I’m still not surprised four out of the five top grossing concert acts last year were rock bands.

Bon Jovi may have recently [...]

It’s a hell of a drug

Where hath the populist Democrats gone?

Soon-to-be former Ohio governor Ted Strickland was asked why the Democrats took such a pounding in his state during the election. Every state-wide office went Republican, and the state made its biggest turn red in its history.

He blamed it on the lack of convincing populist rhetoric from Democrats. That Republicans had somehow harnessed the [...]

Are they now "the Obama tax cuts"?

Predictions have never been a good game for me. My record picking and wagering NFL games is a testament to that basic fact. But two years ago, I said Obama would re-enact the Bush tax cuts, he would do so to the full extent, and he would do so in the face of his [...]

It's that time of year ...

Trailer Park: Transformers – Dark of the Moon

Transformers Dark of The Moon Teaser (1080p) from Michael Bay Dot Com on Vimeo.