- Crazy Heart
- Children of Men
- Ironman 2

Crazy Heart was about what I expected. Jeff Bridges won an oscar for it, and Maggie Gyllenhaal is just as good as he is. It's about an old and aging country star, who is drunk all the time, finding his muse (a young pretty girl, naturally) and as a result changing his life for the better. In other ( Read more... )

Obama saw Brown’s victory as a mirror-image of his own: “The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office. People are angry, and they're frustrated, not just because of what's happened in the last year or two years, but what's happened over the last eight years ( Read more... )

So I was catching up with “My So-Called Life” on hulu (what a great opening, huh? Reminds me of “I was just sitting in the U-bend thinking about death”) and the main character (15 in 1994, which makes her thirty now) said something about how all of the older generation knew exactly where they were when Kennedy was shot but my generation has ( Read more... )

A few facts we could learn from history ( Read more... )

One thing that changed on Tuesday, in addition to the President, was the official website for the White House.

It now has a blog.At one point during the television’s coverage of Tuesday’s proceedings a broadcaster made some comment about how, to people of my generation, Obama’s election is historic not because he is an African-American, but for ( Read more... )

Hope, Not Change, and Change
A three part response to Obama’s inauguration speechIn late December I wrote down the following ( Read more... )

I voted ( Read more... )