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Strollin' the sidelines

While Wanks (and I) laments the death of the 45 and 70s TV themes breaking the Top 10, a fun little 1970s football coach pictorial from SportsIllustrated.com, something to wile away the summer minutes. For the ‘bama fans here, I’d like to point out that you know I have the utmost respect for “Bear” [...]

Distant Early Warning

If this is true we have nearly two centuries of government and media fueled hysteria ahead of us. I think the Armageddon scenario is just the thing. Though we could raise the battleships Yamato and Bismark — turn them into spaceships and fight this thing.

Maria Eugenia Sansaturio and scientists from the Universidad de [...]

Classic Pick O’ the Day: July 31

David Copperfield (1935) Charles Dickens’ classic tale of an orphaned boy’s fight for happiness and the colorful characters who help and hinder him. Cast: W. C. Fields, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O’Sullivan, Madge Evans Dir: George Cukor BW-130 mins, TV-G. 6:00 AM EDT. TCM.

This is one of Fields’ best though he’s not one of [...]

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Rick James…cocane is a hell of a drug.

Frank Miller and "The Fixer"

I had heard that Frank Miller had wanted to do a Batman graphic novel in which the Caped Crusader opens up a can of whoop-ass on al-Qaeda. Given the PC nature of corporate comics today (DC in this case) it appears that such a Batman comic was not meant to be, though Miller says it [...]

The Dad Abides

I’m sure this somehow fits into the meme of people, wimmins especially, not expecting much of men or whatever, but there are upsides to low expectations I guess. My wife is a photographer and she’s out photographing a wedding up in Santa Barbara this weekend so I’ve got out our three kids by myself for [...]

Maybe We Should Call It the Government Oil Spill

A new report by the Center for Public Integrity, if true, seems to indicate the federal government caused the oil spill. From Ed Morrissey at Hot Air — who links to the full report:

The Coast Guard has gathered evidence it failed to follow its own firefighting policy during the Deepwater Horizon disaster and is [...]

A Threedonia Programming Note...

Our very own Eric Porvaznik, along with Yes, But, However’s John Romano & David Stein, will be a guest of the very gracious Jack Marino, 8-9 PM PDT tonight on his Warrior Filmmaker online radio show. He and David will be discussing our experience outside last week’s Rage Against the Machine show benefiting their Boycott [...]

The Green Zombie Apocalypse: Here and Now

Yesterday Floyd linked to a post from Reason that celebrated the death of cap and trade (yay!) and suggested that this could be a turning point, to wit: the beginning of the end of global warming hysteria. As reasonable as that reasoned conclusion seems, there are many reasons to suggest that this is not [...]

American Idle

Ladies, gentlemen, and Rufus… your new American Idol judge to replace the departed Ellen Degeneres and the fired Kara Diwhat’shername. Randy Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, and Steven Tyler. Crazy genius? Or just crazy?

The New Agnosticism: They Really Just Don't Know

What’s a principled agnostic to do caught betwixt and between believers and the New Atheists who are often more fundamentalist than their Christian counterparts? This article from Slate.com seeks to carve out territory for agnostics Here’s a bit:

Let me make clear that I accept most of the New Atheist’s criticism of religious bad [...]

Funky Friday Flashback

… and for those who prefer the version from the show’s intro …

Friday Open Thread

Happy Birthday Jean Reno!

Hollywood’s manliest movies

Always a sucker for a good list, Rotten Tomatoes offers this one here. One film after 1988 made the cut – take a guess.

Total BS

Total Recall… may be remade… by the director of…. Die Hard 4. Somebody get me Michael Ironside… stat! I don’t care if he did leave his forearms on that elevator. He can put a stop to this travesty.

h/t: JJ

Rangel Wrangle (BUMPED)

CBS News is reporting that Charlie Rangel has cut a deal with the House Ethics Committee (stop laughing!) to avoid a public trial.

Harlem friends of Rangel tell CBS 2 they have been told that the details could be unveiled when the House Ethics Committee meets Thursday afternoon.

“Sixty years ago I survived a Chinese [...]

Multiplication — The Old Fashioned Way

From The Wall Street Journal’s Real Time Economics Blog:

A new report from the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania lays out a stark picture of an Amish population boom. The Amish population — a religious group that limits its member’s access to conveniences like telephones and electric [...]

Well I'll Be Damned!

Anne Rice… author of a whole horde of vampire novels has left Christianity for her old faith… feminist New Age-ism.

The 68-year-old author wrote Wednesday on her Facebook page that she refuses to be “anti-gay … anti-feminist,” and “anti-artificial birth birth control.”

She adds that “In the name of … Christ, I quit Christianity [...]

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 [...]

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