No outlaws, no gunslingers, no law men, no frontier, no West, no rustlers, no ranchers versus nesters, no sheepmen versus cowboys, no Indians, no posses, no evil cattle barons…just why is this considered a Western? The only answer I'm getting is because it does have Confederates.

About J…J was involved in the robbery of the surfers, committing the armed assault.

I could quibble about details, but basically I agree with you. This is not the standard historiographical view. Conor Cruise O'Brien is important largely as a "reasonable' interpreter of Ireland. In the article linked his contention that Hamilton was the center of "civil religion" in the north is preposterous. Not…

Of course not. The post isn't what I think at all.

"something I haven't seen…"

Smurf is being portrayed as the master manipulator. The thing is, she wouldn't have to be more than ordinarily alert to know that Deran is gay, which he apparently is, the surfer dude being a liar being a little too twisty for TV relationships. (It was obvious that Deran was receiving at the moment. But why would…

Well, to me replacing a slave society with a free labor society is revolutionary in every meaningful sense.

The movie version of Heinlein's Puppet Master may not have been a masterpiece. Eric Thal does the nude scene instead of Julie Warner? All the leads play the villain at different times?Six extras and Marshall Bell represent an entire army?

In 1775 all the legal authorities in New England were violently replaced, save for Boston where there was a large contingent of British troops. Subsequently all the other states forced colonial governors out. New Jersey's royalist governor fled to a British warship off shore. Virginia's Lord Dunmore fought battles,…

His side lost, not Foote personally.

The bogus historiography that helped entrench white supremacy was primarily States Rights' and constitutionalism and small government etc. as causes of the war, which could have been avoided without abolitionist fanaticism and yankee greed and the power mad Lincoln. The notion of a meaningless war that pointlessly…

First, Trotsky as I recall somewhere wrote that a defining mark of a great social revolution was a massive transfer of property. Transferring property in slaves to the slaves was gigantic.

That scene made me laugh out loud. And I think his war on terror subtext was very much of a piece with his Occupy Wall Strett= the Terror in the French Revolution, which was just too on the nose to deny. We're obviously too far apart to find common ground.

If the woman was raped by this man, she's got nothing to discover. There are no formless forebodings bringing to life unspoken, unacknowledged fears. The woman, if this is the case, knows them altogether too well.

Because it revolutionized social and political relations for millions of people, including the transfer of billions of dollars of property. It was not the same government after the revolution. Conservatives spent years trying to undo the revolutionary implications of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, a…

The previously recap has me in. I have to watch TV that does something I haven't seen before.

Ang Lee apparently thought of this as a parable for how the Communists defeated the Kuomintang. I always pair this in my mind with the Firefly series, which also tended to think of the north as Stalinist. As Hollywood and the guardians of pop culture get ever more reactionary, I suppose that still counts as fresh and…

And don't forget the city rolling up, to. Yes, Inception and Insomnia are Nolan's claims to quality. But it was after all Interstellar and The Dark Knight that were inexplicably offered up as his great claims in the discussion previously.

Yes, she pulled out the condom. Why? For that matter, why rummage in his private things? I could see pulling out any weapons, any meds, anything unusual. This little bit of business was BS. Middle schoolers get freaked out at the touch of a condom. But an adult? Her horror only makes sense if the condom is standing…

I liked The Island. And I could sit through the Transformer movies. Don't remember anything else he's done besides Bad Boys which I haven't seen. So maybe you're right, Bay can deliver a really impressive scene or sequence. But this is all damning with faint praise adjacent. (Except for my refusal to accept Nolan as a…