They’re Lucky To Be Alive (Classic Threedonia)

The IOC is investigating the age of the Chinese “women’s” gymnastic team. The parent’s meanwhile are outraged. Said the parents: “We’d have aborted these girls to erase the shame if we’d know this was going to happen!” “We are outraged. We play fair!”

I suggest the Hollywood Test. If Roman Polanski is turned on — then [...]

Stevie

Monday Open Thread

Gene Kelly was born this date in 1912.

Radio Free Threedonia -- Low on guests, high on ka-boom

We’re taking it a little easy on RF3D today — 4-6 PM PST on RightTalkRadio, taking calls at 877-942-2178 — with Double Trouble’s Tommy Shannon unfortunately unable to join us (he’ll be on-board as a guest next month, though, closer to the SRV Ride on the anniversary of Stevie’s birthday). However, with Kender “Patriot Missile” [...]

MTRTW: Rounders - 1998

MOVIES THAT RUINED THE WORLD: Rounders (1998)

The Movie

John Dahl’s “Rounders” survives on the breadth of a supporting cast that carries much more heft than its leads, or its  flimsy and flawed script. Still, this myth-making ode to poker hits enough right notes and is indelibly entertaining.

Funky Friday Flashback

Fine, I lied a couple days ago. Cheap Trick doesn’t quite go all the way in making things feel better. That power is reserved for none other than Mr. Dynamite!!!

All In All You're Just Another Brick In The Wall

This is surprising to me. Roger Waters has approved the use of his work by the band Blurred Vision who has turned the song, Another Brick In The Wall, into a protest against the Iranian Mullahs.

They Blinded Me with Silence

When I was a boy science was fun!

Rich wrote a great post explaining why we are destined to live with the negative effects of erroneous Environmentalist policies for quite some time. I agree. But how did we get here?
Greg Conterio at Modern Conservative wrote a piece on July 26th about an [...]

Classic Pick O’ the Day: July 30

Manhunter (1986)
An FBI specialist tracks a serial killer who appears to select his victims at random. Cast: William Petersen, Brian Cox, Dennis Farina, Joan Allen, Stephen Lang, Tom Noonan. Directed by Michael Mann. 9:00 PM PDT. IFC.

I think Silence of the Lambs was a great movie and I think Anthony Hopkins deserved [...]

Cat S#!t One...The Most Pro Troop Show I've Seen

As has been discussed on this channel before Cat S#!t One is based on a Japanese anime presentation, here’s the trailer…

Cat Shit One trailer – [Idol Anime]Uploaded by arpsa. – Watch feature films and entire TV shows.

You can watch episode 1 in it’s entirety HERE, it’s subtitled in English and has animated violence. For [...]

We Need Some Mojo

Class war or welfare?

Ross Douthat’s latest is on the new craze in defaulted mortgages – the rich, or the faux-rich. Those with million-dollar mortgages are defaulting at twice the rate of those with mere normal middle-class mortgages. Guess which mortgage holders are expected to pick up the tab? This is the inherent condition, and ultimately the result, of [...]

First. LT Richard Winters Leadership Project

Check out this video and support Curt Shilling’s efforts to honor the veterans of D-Day.

First. LT Richard Winters Leadership Project.

Obama administration to sue Arizona

Hillary Clinton, who is staying overseas as much as possible (no surprise there), unleashed this one while speaking to a media outlet in Ecuador today.

President Obama has spoken out against the law because he thinks that the federal government should be determining immigration policy. And the Justice Department, under his direction, will be [...]

Movie Review: The A-Team

Whatever director-writer Joe Carnahan’s plan was for his remake of the 80s television series The A-Team, it didn’t come together.

Stuck in the development dungeon for the better part of 10 years, The A-Team feels as if it were pieced together in 10 minutes from 10 different scripts. Nowhere is this more apparent then the ridiculous [...]

Turn It Up Tuesday -- Blind Squirrels, Nut

In today’s poli/music world, in which most bands/artists rarely spout anything that doesn’t seem straight from the Democrat/Modern Liberal talking points , it’s fortunately not so hard to remember a time, 25 years ago, when a well-represented group from the music community actually stood for promoting freedom, with Little Steven Van Zandt’s Artists United Against [...]

A Legacy of Heroes, Part 3 1975-1991

Part 3 in a series. Part 2 is available HERE

MH-6 Little Bird

At the end of the Vietnam War the US Military went through some serious soul searching about how it fights its wars and what it was going to need to win wars in the future. US Army aviation applied the lessons [...]

Linda McMahon and her company of death

As some of you know, I’m a journalist. I’m also a former professional wrestling journalist. Don’t laugh – there is such a thing. And hey, it was a start to writing. I wish it was all cartoony-antics, screaming interviews, ridiculous stunts and writing stories about fake matches, but I spent most of my time reporting [...]

What Will You Be Doing For the 10th Anniversary of 9-11?

Someone needs to — pardon the image — stop this. Bolding mine

A mosque rises over Ground Zero. And fed-up New Yorkers are crying, “No!”

A chorus of critics — from neighbors to those who lost loved ones on 9/11 to me — feel as if they’ve received a swift kick in the teeth.

Plans are under [...]

DVD Review: The Weather Underground

If I'm battling the cops, all I would take is a football helmet and a leather jacket.

Christian Toto has been espousing the greatness of Mel Brooks at his erstwhile site, but he’s missed the real comic genius of the last 40 years – Bill Ayers.

Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn and the rest of the lovable, funable, [...]

Everyday is Father’s Day For This Guy

Freaking amazing…. watch all 20 seconds…

Andrew Leitch… Father of the Decade.

The Aussie father was captured on CCTV clinging desperately to his son Haydn after taking the full impact of car smashing into him and a shop front.

Amazingly, the baby escaped without a scratch, but Mr. Leitch’s elderly parents were tossed across the foyer. Despite a [...]

What War Has Done To Me

A few weeks ago when I returned from the middle east I was asked by a reader to explain what it was like to transition from a war zone back to life in the USA. I thought about that for quite a while and this being my third time to make that transition, it [...]

Movie Review: Iron Man 2

Who is Tony Stark? Will that be the chant ringing in the streets?

Jon Favereau’s treatment of everyone’s favorite billionaire super-hero has all the touches of an Ayn Rand novel, all right, but it’s the Robert Downey Jr. connection to Tony Stark that is the most intriguing in the extremely fun, sharp and smart follow-up to [...]

Top Five - Best Allied Brass Of WWII

I’m not quite as well-versed on WWII as the War of Northern Aggression, but still pretty up on things, so here goes – with the caveat that I know fellow military-history buff AW1 Tim is going to find the inevitable error. (Dammit!)

I’m sticking to field commanders here, commanding Army Groups, Armies, Air Forces or Fleets. [...]

Go flag yourself

Some updates on Flag-gate from Hot Air.

The five students sent home from Live Oak High School in California for wearing shirts portraying the American flag have been making the media rounds. Meanwhile, Hispanic students at the school, approximately 85 of them, marched through town to support the school’s decision.

The protesters supported the school’s decision, while [...]

Jock-ocracy in America

If you thought the boorish behavior of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was limited to sexual assault allegations, think again. David Epstein walked the streets of Pittsburgh in search of the city’s thoughts on its star quarterback. Even Pittsburgh, a place that once cheered when Deion Sanders suffered a neck injury, has had enough of [...]

Steyn: Arizona under siege

Mark Steyn connects Gordon Brown and elitism to the Arizona immigration flap – all with his customary wit.

That’s Arizona. To the coastal commentariat, “undocumented immigrants” are the people who mow your lawn while you’re at work and clean your office while you’re at home. (That, for the benefit of Linda Greenhouse, is [...]

Sunday Gospel

Not a Film Review: Avatar

There’s little left to be said of Avatar – James Cameron’s opus to one-dimensional characters, two-dimensional plot and three-dimensional video games – that hasn’t been said by others, but indulge me. Nolte, Toto and Smith – our erstwhile triumvirate of conservative film critics – have touched on the film as a whole. Red Letter Media [...]

Sunday Open Thread

Anger Management

Sigh. This week, my column over at The Examiner was about socialism and how America is sliding down ever faster down the slippery slope of nanny-statism. (You can read it here if you’re interested). In response, we got the following letter of the editor from a fellow by the name of Ron Sinclair (misspellings from [...]

What two years of ad hominem will get you

For Kathleen Parker, it’s the Pulitzer Prize.

Why you ask? For her self-styled Pulitzer-worthy insight such as this:

A friend’s late-night call cast light on the undecided’s milieu. She was filling out her ballot at home and had made every choice but one. The presidential ticket.

“I just can’t quite bring myself to do it. I [...]

Top Five: Last watched

Mr. Porvaznik is working on his own list, but in the mean time, here’s the last five from myself – in between poopy diapers, Spanish exams and the doldrums of winter sports writing.

1. Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939): Endearing, inspiring, gut-wrenching – all within the first handful of minutes.

There’s much to love – what a good [...]

Not surprised: Big problems with GM liabilities

The ultimate impetus for our impending national bankruptcy won’t be  any single bill of legislation, it will be because politicians won’t and can’t say no. Arguments for TARP were prevalent on both sides, especially the threat of a wicked tide of financial collapses that would take down the whole system, so whether or not that [...]

DVD Review: Right America, Feeling Wronged

Alexandra Pelosi’s drab, badly-produced and hackneyed documentary about right-wing America in the wake of the 2008 election is beyond parody. The film is so needlessly simplistic, stereotypical and thoughtless only someone created in the most vapid and shallow environment, say the family of the Speaker of the House, could believe it to be taken serious. [...]

DVD Review: Sherlock Holmes

While Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes is entertaining enough, smart enough and performed well with all the big-budget studio bluster at its disposal, if you felt you saw this movie before it’s because you have. Credit this to the – pardon the pun – rather “elementary” film-making styles of contemporary Hollywood.

Victorian super-sleuth Sherlock Holmes, one of [...]

Classic Pick O’ the Day: March 30

Dersu Uzala (1975)
A Russian explorer brings the Asiatic hunter who saved his life back to civilization.
Cast: Maksim Munzuk, Yuriy Solomin, M Bichkov, V Khrulev Dir: Akira Kurosawa C-141 mins, TV-PG. 8:00 PM EDT. TCM

Tomorrow is another Kurosawa night. This one is under known IMHO. I love the samurai films. This one [...]

DC: The web's 'Six Smartest Bloggers'

There are lots of bloggers. Maybe even a hundred, but the Daily Caller has dutifully read them all and narrowed down the smartest six. Kicking off the list is Ezra Klein.

First, though, it’s necessary to get some dirty laundry out of the way. Back when he blogged in between final exams and keggers [...]

It's Not Just the Left Who Have Mastered

When I typed, “Stupak” into Bing today the type ahead feature returned the above suggestions.  To get a search engine to return a result like this almost certainly required a concerted effort by a group of people.  This is not new.  Folks did this with George Bush’s name, and others, but I was surprised by [...]

Wednesday Open Thread

I'm surrounded by Paul-ites

Bag on liberals all you want, and they certainly deserve it, but I’ve encountered a more wretched political foe in my dealings with friends and family – the Ron Paul fan club, whose primary motivation is non-existent. Democrats, for all their wrongheaded and simpleminded fixes for the world at least believe in something, many of [...]

Top Five: Coming summer movies

The snow has melted, spring is in the air, along with a promise of hot and humid days inside the cold, comfortable cineplex. This year’s slate? Not exactly 1939, but bits and pieces here and there may make it enjoyable. Hopefully no “robot testicles” this year.

1. Iron Man 2: Robert Downey Jr. can do no [...]

What's in a name?

DJ Gallo, one of the few good writers left at EPSN.com, had some fun compiling sports nicknames. Throw in your own faves and/or ones from the missing files …

James “Bonecrusher” Smith
James Smith is a mediocre boxer with a 44-17 career record. James “Bonecrusher” Smith is a mediocre boxer with a 44-17 career record … who [...]

Douche ex Machina

Charles Dawson examines the Piltdown Man

JohnFN has already written about the evidence surrounding “sudden acceleration” in some Toyota models.

Friday some of you may have seen live footage of a James Sikes, speeding down a Califoria freeway on the phone with 911 operators, claiming he was unable to slow or stop his vehicle.

Here’s James’ attorney, [...]

Hi I’m Rufus. I Don’t Know How to Embed – and I’m Not Just Talkin’ About the Ladies

Floyd — bringin’ you the videos…