RIP Arthur C. Clarke
Jeez

Yes, JP Morgan purchased BSC for $2 a share, but I see no point in pretending the Fed has no involvement. They've extended JP a $30 billion credit line at reduced interest rates and as of today are indefinitely allowing unlimited cheap loans to Wall Street firms. Since we have a multi-trillion dollar deficit, the only…

Speaking of charity - from the government
Britney Spears should get her act together and write a club hit about how the Fed is giving charity to Wall Street gambling addicts.
What is morally wrong is to bail Bear Sterns out now. They made their bets, it did not work out, sorry for those who allocated part (or all)…

A misguided direction
As a parable of modernity society lost in the shuffle of globalism and people being forced onto theyre own little islands with their friends where they are forced to forge through life, Lost works fairly well. But it is a little obvious when they start putting Australians all over the screen…

Online dating is sad?
My son uses the internet to date, and the internet is here to stay, and there is nothing wrong whatsoever with having an online dating profile. Not everyone in the world is good at meeting people in offices, bars, restaraunts, clubs, banquet or pool halls, or musical revues.

You want to know what is offensive?
I have been known on the internet to shed light on situations that are perceived in darkness. And here we are looking at a classical example of missing the forest through the trees. Not only is Illegal Alien offensive for its lack of clarity and research into the 1980s office…

That is a little persumptuous to assume that he is a 'softie' now that he has a child. There is no way to know what that child is turning him in to and maybe this movie was good on its own merits. And I behoove you to explain what is wrong with MAMA MIA in the first place if you were trying to use that as a…

Nature rules. Cities Drool.
Whatever you wish to say about this book I would argue that the difference between the book and the movie is like the difference between nature and cities. The book. like nature, comes across as hard to do and overwhelming but in the end provides you with nourishment while the movie is more…

I think it would be in your best interest to let people knwo you are talking about Mark Ruffalo before you make that statement because just saying it can have a cascading affect on things you might not want to reveal man. I do like your ability to throw in funny lines from movies into real world situations and its one…

Stomper, it is dangerous to give someone a free pass alone on just being a a fixture of the community. Adolf Hitler was a fixture in Europe but I don't think many people found him endearing. That being said, Zodiac Mother represents a brand of youngsters today who are angry and fed up with our own administration and…

The crime in the cities has not gone anywhere
Some times I feel like I am being beaten over my head with a skyscraper. I understand what the message of this movie is but it seems a little patronising since I have seen it so many times before. Woody Allen did the same but opposite when he made every movie of his in New…

Black Crowes?
Hey Noel, how do you feel about the Black Crowes? I know critics don't like them, but they are pretty popular nonetheless.

A defense of C-SPAN is timely and real.
Chris Walla brings an interesting argument that many here are afraid to confront, that movies now would rather entertain that help make laws through our Congress. There was a distinct movement in the late 40s for a while that movie energy was transended into political…

I thought the game was exciting
I dunno, as far as superbowls go I thought this one was pretty damn exciting. Eli consistently played well throughout the entire first half and his one interception was due to the WR's bad ball handing. The Giants D was simply pitch perfect, and to call the first 3.7 quarters boring I…

I am glad the retarded genre has redeemed itself
I am glad to see Downs syndrome getting better treatment then they did in the Other Sister. In that movie Diane Keaton freaked out so much all over the frame that she hasnt stopped freaking out since. Now in every movie she acts in every scene like her retarded child is…

What a copout
The psychicatric community can not be easily stereotyped by the way this movie wants you to think. There are many Japanese and Nigerian Tarot card readers in slums in Houston and Brooklyn who will look at your hand and pretend to know what you are going through in life, this is true. And those types…

Growing up in Germany I am sure makes it harder to understand what was taking place then, Franz, but there was a papable sense that if it were not for Chong and his friend, the pot culture could have been taken alot more seriously. Magazines have shown that Gallagher has had similar negative effects on watermelon…

Chong is a fake
It's sad to say that Chong was always on the wrong side of the counterculture and to make a cheap cash by looking like he wasnt his whole life is probably why he needs so much pot in the first place. His usage of marijhanna as a prop for comedy did much to legitamize the artists who were using pot as a…

Hitler is in Dogville?
You can say many many things about World War Two and Hitler and nobody is going to deny that Hitler was one of the important figures of his generation. But to say that Hitler was the subject of Dogville and all of Todd Haynes movies is ridiculous. There are of course some superficial comparisons…

Boy oh Boy
I am half convinced this guy is a total moron trying to tell his audience that violence solves everything, but part of me thinks his music is being subversive in the same way the Stones, Easy Rider and Robert Redford were in the 70s. Telling the skinny wimpy types who listen to this new indie rock to 'hunt'…