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He’s an unrighteous dude. “Ferris Bueller” actor Jeffrey Jones was charged Wednesday with failing to update his sex offender registration status, authorities said. Jones, 63, failed to update his information with California officials after his birthday in September, Los Angeles county district attorney spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said. Jail records show he was arrested by Los Angeles police on [...] Lawrence? Lawrence what? Lawrence of Arabia? That name sounds like royality, are you royalty? H/T BlackFive Share on Facebook Cracked has done it again… in my ever expanding — and quixotic — crusade to get State legislatures and Congress and executive agencies to slash and burn law codes… yeah its bad for lawyers, but what’s bad for lawyers is usually good for liberty, so I’m willing to take one for the team. Anyway… [...] I have been advised by my physician that I must undergo a course of chemotherapy on my esophagus. This advice seems persuasive to me. I regret having had to cancel so many engagements at such short notice. Share on Facebook As Dave Weigel licks his wounds while starting new gigs at MSNBC and The Huffington Post (apparently showing yourself as a partisan employed as an objective journalist is good for your career, as long as you are the right type of partisan), James Taranto pointed out some of the problems in Weigel’s Journolist postings and [...] I try to avoid linking to Steyn because everything the guy writes is more brilliant than anything anyone else is writing. After awhile, the brilliance becomes mundane, but… Readers may recall Ann Coulter’s visit to the University of Ottawa a couple of months back. The Provost, François Houle, had threatened her with criminal [...] The Heiress (1949) Great and unappreciated William Wyler film here. Everyone, especially de Havilland is in top form here — an old story told well (and [...] Edward George Bulwer-Lytton…. some of you may know who this man was…. ALL of us have been affected by his “greatest creation”… I quote to you from the opening paragraph of his greatest work (emphasis mine) — the 1830 novel Paul Clifford: “It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents–except [...] Happy Birthday to the Corvette! This day in 1953 the first Corvette rolled off the line. Share on Facebook … and Neil Peart plays a mean set of drums (and more drums). Also really dug that Rush documentary JohnFN mentioned yesterday (this morning?). Still, for me, percussion gets no better than this song (and killer accompanying soundtrack). Love that “And if sometimes I can’t seem to talk, you’ll know this blackboard lacks a piece [...] This past Sunday I posted an item where Michael Oren, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. was reported to have made private comments to colleagues that there were “tectonic rifts” and maybe irreparably so in relations with the U.S. Amabassador Oren, as reported in The Jerusalem Post has since denied making those remarks: According to the [...] Or at least podcastheadski anyway. The American Petroleum Institute was looking for an expert to talk about air quality stuff for one of their podcasts. Unable to find anyone suitable, they settled on yours truly. You can listen to almost half an hour of America’s foremost – best looking – smartest – most Polish air [...] Since Floyd has copped to listening to NPR I suppose it’s safe for me to come out of the closet. Ira Glass has one of the most annoying voices to ever earn a living on radio. He can pack more condescension and superiority into a simple, “Good Morning” than Shakespearean trained Lionel Barrymore’s, “You’re worth [...] Oh, Vince, when will you ever learn? To paraphrase the dearly departed Sam Kinison, “Hello, I’m a rock star who got arrested for drunk driving. Don’t be like me. Don’t get caught, or they’ll make you do lame community service ads like this.” Neil said last week that he was sober and that there are “other [...] The Naked Spur (1953) A nice taut and under appreciated Western with a great cast. It’s in a vein with 3:10 to Yuma and others [...] I teach a few courses in our forensic psychology program so I find this stuff fascinating. NPR (which actually has some very good stuff) is doing a series of stories on neuroscience and crime…. here’s a link to the first one about neuroscientist James Fallon — a professor at UC-Irvine and a descendant of [...] Here’s a good brief (and mostly objective) history of the beginnings of the modern judicial confirmation process and its lousiness with partisan politics. As with most things bad about today’s politics… they intersect with both LBJ and Richard Nixon. From the Sept./Oct. 2009 issue of Humanities: In the aftermath of the Senate hearings [...] The fine folks at the Collectors’ Choice label re-released Rawhide’s Clint Eastwood Sings Cowboy Favorites last week. Nothing great, but not too shabby, neither, and tons better than the pop country junk comin’ outta Trashville these days. Share on Facebook Caught the new Rush documentary “Beyond the Lighted Stage.” Made me think of the band’s greatest disciples. Share on Facebook The democratization of quality of life in this country has been a recent theme of mine, so it’s with some satisfaction I see others like Victor Davis Hanson talking about how middle class life, and even some upper lower class life, is quite different than it was a generation ago. Jonah Goldberg touched on this theme [...] That’s right you pretentious hacks over at libertasfilmmagazine: eat Threedonia’s dust. I scooted over to Alexa (“The Web Information Company!’ – er, isn’t everybody on the web about information?) to see how we stacked up against the new, not improved, libertas. Threedonia’s traffic rank: 307,200!!!! Libertasfilmmagazine’s traffic rank: 1,731,303 HAH! Other interesting things I learned about Threedonians at Alexa, [...] I’ve had my ups and downs with David Frum, the former Bush speechwriter, who has compelled conservatives to reach toward the middle and has taken on Rush Limbaugh in a Newsweek cover. But I find this knee-jerk and a little totalitarian. I’m afraid that I don’t consider FrumForum to be a conservative website, so I’m [...] “Alex, I believe the question is: how many windmills would we have to build to replace petroleum in order to fulfill president Obama’s dream of a green, all-electric America?” “You are correct sir!” If you like thought experiments and/or math, keep reading. If not, move along and take your chances with Floyd’s latest – you’ll be terribly [...] In another decision released today, the Supreme Court found against the Christian Legal Society’s bid to remain a registered student organization and exclude openly gay members against the school policy of The Hastings College of the Law. In other words… public schools can now ban religious groups who exclude gays from leadership positions or [...] The Supreme Court has done the right thing vis-a-vis guns. In a 5-4 decision they struck down Chicago’s Draconian ban on handguns. Sam Alito wrote the majority opinion. I blame Bush for this! From The Heritage Foundation’s blog The Foundry: In a long-awaited decision on the final day of the Supreme Court’s [...] Good Monday morning/afternoon Threedonians. We hope you had a fine time swinging, collecting stamps, writing EPA manuals whatever it is you do — besides reading Threedonia. As usual while y’all were gallivanting around we at Threedonia World Headquarters were busy looking for pictures of Salma Hayek toiling away to bring you our usual [...] As the World Cup focus wanes significantly now that the US has been eliminated (being an American with Euro-mutt ancestry, though, I still have the German and Slovakian dogs in the hunt), plus the 2010 Little League’s conclusion this past week means no umping (i.e., the best seat in the house) till next year, can’t [...] From the London Daily Telegraph: Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to Washington, told foreign ministry colleagues at a private briefing in Jerusalem that they were facing a long and potentially irrevocable estrangement. Sources said Mr Oren told the meeting: “There is no crisis in Israel-US relations because in a crisis there are ups and downs. [Instead] relations are [...] Besides the weekly Sunday Gospel posts and the occasional comment here and there on religion generally I try not to use this spot to proselytize or beat a specific theological drum too hard, but every so often I come across something I feel like sharing. One of my favorite blogs is by a pastor [...] As y’all may know the typical middle and upper class rabble are destroying Toronto during the G-20 Summit this week. So of course Toronto’s finest are knocking heads and taking names right? Not according to Mark Steyn: I may have to revise my old line about the British police being “the most monumentally useless [...] Jan Brewer isn’t backing down on her statement that most illegals entering her state are involved with the drug trade. Good for her. In today’s politically correct world, most public figures (see John McCain) would back off after using such a controversial superlative to modify a noun that already describes an activity that is, er [...] According to a Dutch study… people who label themselves as “swingers” — those who trade partners or engage in group sex(Go Google Ads go!) have a much higher rate of STD than prostitutes. From CBS News: Dutch researchers analyzed almost 9,000 patients at three sexual health clinics and found that 10.4 percent of older couples [...] The Great Race (1965) I’m a sucker for a huge race movie… It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Death Race 2000, Cannonball Run (both), Smokey and the [...] Two things up front: 1) there’s no excuse for General Stanley McChrystal letting the nose of Rolling Stone’s camel under his tent, and 2) based on that mistake, he had to be relieved. I understand, and agree with, Outlaw’s disdain over efforts to defend McChrystal now that the cow has exited from the barn, but [...] THE GREEN HORNET Starring: Seth Rogan??!? Looks interesting, not sure how I feel about the bumbling incompetent Green Hornet. Never watched the TV show as a kid or read the comic, so I don’t have anything to compare it to. Looks like something to check out though. Look for it in JAN [...] |
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