30 April 2009

Condi on 'executive privilege'

31 March 2009

not a bad use of metaphor

13 March 2009

Where critique happens now

10 March 2009

Talent in 2009

32 songs in 8 minutes

02 March 2009

Decline in retail sales

Census Bureau: Year over Year Change in Retail Sales

25 February 2009

Ely Kim, Boombox


BOOMBOX from Ely Kim on Vimeo.

100 songs, 100 dances.

11 February 2009

NRO: Best conservative movies of the last 25 years

Coming in at #22, without any irony whatsoever:

Brazil (1985): Vividly depicting the miserable results of elitist utopian schemes, Terry Gilliam’s Brazil portrays a darkly comic dystopia of malfunctioning high-tech equipment and the dreary living conditions common to all totalitarian regimes. Everything in the society is built to serve government plans rather than people. The film is visually arresting and inventive, with especially evocative use of shots that put the audience in a subservient position, just like the people in the film. Terrorist bombings, national-security scares, universal police surveillance, bureaucratic arrogance, a callous elite, perversion of science, and government use of torture evoke the worst aspects of the modern megastate.