This weekend we pulled out a movie from last summer that we had not watched recently.  This reminded me that I had wanted to review it then.  Rather than let it go again, I resolve to review it now.
Speed Racer was pretty universally panned when it opened in early summer 2008.  Complaints ranged from too [...]

UPDATE:  4 June 2009 – Freedom House and some other organizations have released a report, Undermining Democracy: 21st Century Authoritarians (pdf) that captures the ideas expressed here so I guess it is now official.
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I have been meaning to write about this for about 5 years, but the installment of the Obama administration with what should [...]

We knew that things would get silly once Democrats took over the House in 2006.  They tend on balance to be more intellectually dishonest than Republicans.  The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee response to the spat between Obama and Rush Limbaugh illustrates the point.  On this page they state the following:
“Last week, Rush Limbaugh actually said [...]

Foreclosure statistics were reported this morning on CNBC and were just dismal.  In California, where things were just absolutely out of hand in 2006 and 2007, with 800 sq. ft. closets selling for $500,000, foreclosures are up 100% compared to last year and 500% compared to the year before.
They had some clown on to comment [...]