Archive for 4th November 2007

Speaking Of Movies

Mission: Impossible is on AMC. We went to see it in the theater. By far the best part was hearing the Shiffrin theme in surround sound.

Big, big, big thumbs down, if you haven’t seen it. And does anybody know why the series isn’t syndicated and running on six different channels?

Movie

Going to see Gone Baby Gone. It’s getting good reviews from the reliable sources, so why not.

I’ll report after we’ve seen it.

McQ Asks; I Answer

Is this the state of academics today?

Yes. Even a Especially a PhD in any content-free, scholarship-free field makes you an expert in any area.

Quotation Des Tages

Comes — amazingly — from the MSM:

Sorry, but when girls insist on playing hardball with the boys, they don’t get to cry foul - or change the game to dodge ball - when they get bruised.

Poor Hillary. Oppressed because she doesn’t have a penis. My, how my heart bleeds for her.

Very Interesting

An article about the history of Beowulf: Why read Beowulf?