You won’t find confirmation on Snopes.com, but it’s true. Social Media networks today circulated word that photographer Jennifer Leone (aka Jenn Wright) was hospitalized with profound pain in her lower back, hips, and backside. An Emergency Room examination at Seattle’s… Read more ›
There’s just no telling what people will do next in the name of science. Recently I had the opportunity to talk with Otis Schindler, PhD, professor of astrophysiology at Hauer University. As reported in The Wall Street Journal late last… Read more ›
It does seem odd to me that after all these years MLB and the NFL are “getting tough” on performance-enhancing drugs. But what’s even more odd to me is that performance enhancement is not limited to athletics any more than… Read more ›
One of the most provocative films I ever saw was Do the Right Thing. I saw it on opening weekend in a packed theatre with an urban mixed-race audience. Skeptics had been predicting that the movie would incite riots. But… Read more ›
Back in the days when I was a true creature of habit, I would regularly rise as late as I possibly could in order to avoid my irrepressibly cheery housemate. My radio alarm would wake me at precisely the same… Read more ›
At the L.A. Times, John Mueller somehow got his hands on a screener of Rambo (which did not officially screen for the press) and totted up the body count of the latest film in the series, comparing it to its… Read more ›
So… I’m not a fan of Saving Private Ryan. One of its core messages was about that same as Peter Jackson’s The Two Towers: “Show your enemies no mercy, for you will be shown none.” And Spielberg really drives that… Read more ›
Cruising through the cinematic zeitgeist meter that Rotten Tomatoes has become, here’s a sampling of opinions regarding Ben Stein’s Expelled, followed by its official “Tomato Meter” rating as of a certain long-ago morning: A cynical attempt to sucker Christian conservatives… Read more ›