Wanks, you couldn’t have picked a better day for your drive-in Top 5 — nice coincidence, too, with Floyd picking the great bad Good Guys Wear Black — as I took in a work buddy’s suggestion with The Car, a not-so-perfect-yet-harmless little product from what narrowly edges out the 80s as my favorite decade. [...]
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Share on Facebook Via Ace of Spades: Phenom pitcher Stephen Strasburg is the only reason people still have a vague sense the Washington Nationals are actually a major league team. The games he starts routinely triple or quadruple the Nats regular attendance. So when he was replaced on Tuesday without any warning because of shoulder stiffness his replacement [...] Good Guys Wear Black (1979) Black-belt Vietnam veteran digs up dirty politics. Cast: Chuck Norris, Anne Archer, JIm Backus, Dana Andrews. Directed by Ted Post. 6:30 PM EDT and 2:00 AM EDT. IFC. There’s a whole bunch of good Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films on TCM tomorrow, but I’m not going to tempt fate [...] Here’s an interesting — and telling — story from Yahoo! News about the status of trials for terrorists and other unlawful enemy combatants down at Gitmo. A bit: Attorney General Eric Holder announced in November the trial would be moved to federal court in New York. But the administration backtracked and put [...] Ladies, gentlemen, and Rufus… I present to you the new American League RBI leader — for 1961. In the better late than never file… a baseball statistician discovered a scoring error that has resulted in Jim Gentile (pictured above) now sharing the AL RBI title with Roger Maris. From AOL Fanhouse’s Greg Couch So [...] and this is why From Friday’s London Daily Telegraph: In an interview with Channel 4 News, Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, said they were studying and investigating the report, adding “If they are US spies, then we know how to punish them.” The warning came as the US military’s top officer, Admiral Mike Mullen [...] Here’s an interesting article from a journal called In Character about how we used to be in awe of our machines and how now that we know less and less about how they work — we take them for granted. Visiting the Paris Exhibition in 1900, the American writer Henry Adams saw something so remarkable [...] Share on Facebook David Mamet, playwright (Glengarry Glenross, Speed the Plow and American Buffalo), screenwriter (The Spanish Prisoner, Ronin, The Verdict, The Untouchables) and even creator of TV shows (The Unit) has written a collection of essays called Theatre which seem to flesh out his recently realized conversion (of sorts) to conservatism — or at least not [...] This came to me last week when I saw #3 on TCM. A hard shot back to my childish past: of jammies in public and speakers on the car window and rootbeer in mugs. All mine are from The Golden Age of the Drive-In; feel free to theme-up however you prefer. But consider what you’d [...] The Arizona Diamondbacks played at the New York Mets’ Citi Field last night. In addition to a couple dozen people protesting Arizona’s immigration enforcement law, leaflets were handed out urging Major League Baseball to move next year’s All-Star Game out of Phoenix. New York being what it is, I wouldn’t be surprised if the protesters [...] Dear Lars, I had such a lovely post planned…then I asked Turbo a question in passing and his one-word response? ”Norwegian”. So, out went Hugo Alfven; in came Edvard Grieg. Here’s your new cake: And here’s what I trashed: Share on [...] California Congresswoman Maxine Water is going to be charged with violations by the House Ethics Committee. Both Waters and Rangel are prominent members of the Congressional Black Caucus. Dual ethics trials would be a major political liability for Democrats, forcing them to defend their party’s ethical conduct while trying to hold on to their House [...] This is awesome… not the way I’d train my employee, but these things don’t always work according to corporate’s plan. And I like the way the story is presented straight up — no editorializing that I noticed. Share on Facebook No one exceeds Threedonia in their estimation of the many talents that make up the awesomeness that is The Shat — William Shatner. Well now… Shatner has gone and upped the ante on awesomeness… now he’s a news breaker — and not just entertainment. He’s made a bit of a splash in a new interview [...]
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 [...] |
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