John Murtha says get out of Iraq now. C&L has the video, which has a lot more powerful commentary in addition to the content of the statement. Personally, I’d like to see Dick Cheney tell Murtha (who spent 37 years of his career in the Marine Corps) to his face that he’s losing his […]
So there’s this ad for Guinn—never mind. Check out this ad for Sony TVs, filmed last July in San Francisco. It consists of an awful lot of bouncy balls—about a quarter of a million, in fact—bouncing their way down a hilly street. It looks great and is much more soothing than high-speed drives through the […]
Via Jamie Zawinski comes C’était un Rendezvous. A short and very fast film:
On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris. The film was […]
The Kansas Board of Education has approved new standards that mandate the teaching of “Intelligent Design” (which I’ve always thought should be called Paleyontology) in science classrooms. According to CNN, in addition to mandating that students be told that some basic Darwinian ideas “have been challenged in recent years by fossil evidence and molecular […]
Over at Volokh, the puppy blood is flying again. This time, it’s Juan Non-Volokh who defends America’s network of secret, overseas torture centers against the vicious charge that they resemble Soviet gulags:
I would like to underline my ultimate position: Not every mass murder is comparable to the Holocaust. By the same token, not every secret […]
On a couple of long plane flights this week, I read Janet Browne’s Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, the second volume of her biography of Darwin. (I haven’t read Volume One.) I strongly recommend it. Three things stood out for me.
First, in an unobtrusive but compelling way, Browne brings insights from the sociology and […]
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