Twilight New Moon: 36 Hours Until Premiere

November 18, 2009 / 11:17 am
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Just sayin'. And for your pleasure, a teaser. Don't be a hater. You hate what you don't understand.

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Spanking Lowers I.Q.

September 25, 2009 / 12:37 pm
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Well, that will disappoint some of the readers here. Oh wait! Not that kind of spanking. Here's the study:

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Slasher Flicks, Horrifying 9/12 Numbers, & Actual Terrorism

September 15, 2009 / 9:28 am
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This podcast we hit everything from slasher films affect on the culture to the historic 9/12 march (interviewing the woman behind the 2 million rumor) to rules of engagement with Afghanistan, Iran's nuclear time table and a trade war with China.

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Inglourious Basterds: Part II

August 28, 2009 / 8:25 am
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For another perspective on this movie, I suggest reading John Rosenthal's review titled "Inglourious Basterds: A German Fantasy, Not a ‘Jewish’ One". Rosenthal posits that the movie is written to make the Germans look sympathetic, and the joke is on the buffoonish Americans--who are neither cultured nor competent and barbaric to boot. The movie glorifies German fantasies of vengeful Jews, when in reality, the Germans were the barbarians. One wouldn't know this watching the movie, according t…

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Inglourious Bastards Basterds--UPDATED

August 26, 2009 / 3:23 pm
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Inglourious Bastards might be Quentin Tarantino's best movie so far. As expected, it's full of gruesome violence, gratuitous splattering blood, and revenge fantasies. For the subject, it's all to the good: Nazis die.

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Reading Attention-Span Demanding Books In A Digital ADD World

August 10, 2009 / 10:37 am
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James Joyner writes that he reads books less, now, and non-fiction at that, because he is reading all day in front of the computer:

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10 Books Every Young Man Should Read Before His 18th Birthday: UPDATED

August 7, 2009 / 1:04 pm
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Question: Name 10 books every young man should read before his 18th birthday.

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Aggressive Schooling

April 8, 2009 / 12:18 pm
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There have been all sorts of articles written about Helicopter Parents and now, there's a new trend called "slow parenting". Slow parenting is just as the name implies--yank your kids out of activities and slow down. There is competing evidence, like came from Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers that kids do better with more activities and need at least ten years of consistent, hard work to achieve mastery. And then, there was his extolling of the schools that go year around and for eight hours a d…

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Ignorant Boys + Slutty Girls = A Bright Future

March 30, 2009 / 3:29 pm
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On the same day I read (via Instapundit) that British boys are keeping themselves stupid so as not to get their dumb asses kicked by even dumber, and ostensibly bigger and stronger, bullies, I read that girls are checking out porn, giving boyfriends a show via webcam and sending naked pictures of themselves to the aforementioned willful idiots.

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This Mommy Gig

March 3, 2009 / 6:06 pm
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Stop Blabbing About Your Kids

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