Fear is like a giant fog. It sits on your brain and blocks everything—real feelings, true happiness, real joy.”
~ Albert Brooks, screenplay for Defending Your Life Continue reading Almanac: Albert Brooks on fear at About Last Night.... Read more
Infidelity, bullying callousness, malice — Dickens’ demons were not secret. In fact, they appear in plain sight in his fiction
IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Finally, some good news.
It’s not often these days that there’s good news on two fronts. The nonradical elements in the media are getting restless. And thanks to a band of free market economists, the chances of enacting a cut in the payroll tax that could quickly boost the economy have improved significantly.
As Stephen Miller tweets, “The excuse with camps and Nazi Germany was the world simply didn’t know. It was largely hidden & there was very little media. This is happening right out in the open. The world knows. So what’s the excuse this time?”
Hey, those Colin Kaepernick sneakers and NBA merchandise don’t stitch themselves, you know
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Viagra doesn’t fix all sexual issues, study shows.
REVIEW: Greyhound. “It’s good but the book is great. . . . The Good Shepherd is a breathtaking, technically stunning, and daring piece of writing. And what makes it so exceptional are qualities that simply cannot be duplicated on film, despite the great respect screenwriter Hanks shows for the material and the meticulous re-creation of the conditions on board a destroyer during World War II. . . . What Forester achieves in The Good Shepherd is nothing less than an authoritative portrait of how America and the Allies won World War II, because they produced heroes who had no idea they were heroes. Hanks and his director, Aaron Schneider, do a formidable job of turning the details of the convoy’s crisis as described by Forester into something visual, dramatic, and gripping.”
I’ve got C.S. Forester’s The Good Shepherd, but I haven’t read it yet — I’m currently reading his The General, actually.
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Should We Cancel Aristotle? NYT
YOU KNOW, I’M WILLING TO MAKE THE SACRIFICE FOR MY HEALTH. AS, I’M SURE, ARE MOST WOMEN: Eating chocolate weekly cuts risk of heart disease, study says