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The War Speech 27 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Another Monday, another war for us in the Middle East, although no one expected this of Obama, and no one wants another war. Somehow these things just happen. Our initial war in Afghanistan, to get r...
The Reluctant Something 26 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Iraq messed us up. Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with what happened on September 11, 2001, and he really didn’t have any weapons of mass destruction or any programs to develop them – he just found ...
Fifty Years Now 24 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Fifty years is a long time. Fifty years ago, in 1963, Liz Taylor was relatively young and sleek, and she was Cleopatra in that movie that broke the back of Twentieth Century Fox – they had to sell off...
Possible Responses When Cornered 23 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Back in the early fifties, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, kids could catch the last of those Republic serials on the giant consol television with the tiny rounded black-and-white screen that took up...
Satisfying National Security 22 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Saturday mornings in Hollywood are difficult. Los Angeles is on the far side of a thousand miles of desert, and when the angry sun edges up over the Griffith Observatory, one hill over, it kind of hur...
Suggestive of Nothing 21 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Obamacare is coming. The healthcare exchanges will be open for business as October begins – except in a number of Republican states where they’ll find some way to not provide one. That’s okay, because...
Losing Egypt 20 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Let’s go back to the evening of Wednesday, October 18, 1922 – the very first Hollywood red-carpet premiere – the premiere of Robin Hood, starring Douglas Fairbanks – the father, not the son. This took...
The Natural State of Paranoia 19 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
There’s being foolishly naïve, and then there’s being cautiously trusting of others, and then there’s being skeptical but intelligent about it, and then there’s being cynical, followed by being bitter...
End Times in the Culture Wars 17 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Yes, it’s tiresome – but those of us who left for college in the fall of 1965 and graduated four years later – back when college was a four-year affair – really were at the center the most important s...
Going Jersey 16 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Harrison Ford was dashing and the action was lively and well-paced, and the dialogue was snappy, but all those Indiana Jones movies made a ton of money for another reason – they took you to odd exotic...
