July 2010
I Don't Think The Word "Humble" Means What Diddy... →
Can we knock this bullshit “I’m humbled” thing off now?
Fox News Hangs Sharron Angle Out To Dry →
Crazy. Thanks to @acristancho for the link.
Sharron Angle is mainstream. Also nuts. →
She’s just going to get dumber from here. She doesn’t ‘live large’ like everyone else. Everyone else? Isn’t everyone else the mainstream?
The death of neoliberalism →
Doping in the Tour de France - Freakonomics Blog -... →
Doping (specifically) aside, this is a very good look at why the people that we’re told are making a lot of this stuff up in sports should be listened to—and why Landis has an article in the WSJ, for that matter. The stories, while outrageous, are probably mostly true.
This isn’t “they’re out to get me” stuff by Landis. This is what he saw himself....
Review: Inception - Film School Rejects →
“I will say this now, without reservation and fully confident that many will agree; Inception is easily the best big budget film of the year thus far. I’ll go further and say that it’s one of the most beautiful, well written, and fully realized high dollar films of the last five years. Inception, is close to perfection.”
That seals it for me.