I went to see Matrix Reloaded last night and thought it was pretty piss-poor stuff. Here is the basic plot structure:
Overly-long, self-involved, opaque speech from Character X.Overly-long action sequence.Lather, rinse, repeat.
That’s about it.
Our American readers may think their culture has a lock on kitschy television events. Between American Idol and the innumerable reality shows, they have a good case. Indeed, it’s because of such awfulness that some segments of American society pine for Yerp (as I believe Clive James called it), a semi-mythical land […]
… are usually not the best ideas, especially when you have some kind of horrible sinus/allergy thing going on. However, I think the world is ready for
Blogger DeathMatch
Matt Yglesias vs Matt Welch.Daniel Davies vs Daniel Drezner.Iain Coleman vs Iain Murray.Josh Chafetz vs Josh Marshall.Invisible Adjunct vs Cranky Professor.Steven Den Beste vs Shorter Steven Den Beste. […]
Kevin Drum complains that the best his local Fox news affiliate can do is run a story headlined
How safe are gorgeous women from dangerous predators? John Beard reports.
The answer, of course, is that they are perfectly safe, as long as they stay away from the deadly chemical contained in many ordinary household items. I’ll tell […]
This blog is one year old today. After a brilliantly original first post, followed by a now-falsified prediction, I finally got around to something substantive by the end of my first week. My month-ending statistics for May 2002 say I was rewarded with 26 unique visitors, some of whom were me using different computers. This […]
Over the last few days I’ve been reading A History of Economic Thought, by Lionel Robbins. The book is a version of a lecture course he gave at the LSE in 1979 to a mixed audience of undergraduate and postgraduate students. It’s not the standard “book of lectures” that’s been reworked and cleaned up […]
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