Men don't cry well

The incomparable Tony Woodlief posts this story about the loss of his daughter 3 years ago. The human side of blokes and bloggers.
Sharing of Pain

Trivial

Brisket cooked by white men, often of Czech or German descent. Age-old questions were revisited: Wood or charcoal?

Scriptual

Bravo has a new series debuting, Page to Screen. It will chronicle the process of turning a book into a movie, with a different novel profiled each week. The debut episode will focus on Silence of the Lambs. Other episodes include The English Patient, Get Shorty, and The Cider House Rules.
And Christopher Wehner rants about the state of screenwriting today: style over substance.

Here's a question for constitutional scholars:

Can a sitting president be charged with plagiarism?

Orwell's 1984 was intended as a warning about the evils of totalitarianism, not a how-to manual, but President Bush appears to be borrowing heavily from it. The prophetic novel is about a government that controls the masses by spreading propaganda, cracking down on subversive thought and altering history to suit its needs. Big Brotherly Love.