Picture yourself as an author, producing an article for a magazine or even a book for publication. In order to make your point or get the particulars of a scene across, you make use of prose from a literary work literally decades old, a work that’s firmly in the public domain. You send the article [...]
This is a great vid. Thanks to Tina Korbe at HotAir for bringing it to my attention!
Stack this one right up there with: the Bell Labs guy who dismissed the notion of charging anyone for an operating system developed in house called “Unix” because selling the hardware was where the real money was at, the IBM VP who dismissed the notion of selling home computers because there would only be a [...]
While I had heard the tune before – usually played during parades and on bagpipes – it wasn’t until about 15 years ago that I ever heard the words to the tune “The Minstrel Boy.” It’s actually one of the very few songs I can sing credibly (and, AHEM!, that’s debatable) and I find myself [...]
I saw this as a “breaking news” banner last night as I shut down my laptop but I wanted to get the story before I posted on it. Jimmy Dean – singer, actor, and businessman, died at his home just outside Richmond yesterday at the age of 81. Born in 1928, Dean was raised in [...]
Art Linkletter, TV icon during the early days of TV up through the 60′s, has passed away at the age of 97. Known for hosting TV variety shows in the 50′s and 60′s, he was also the author of the best-selling “Kids Say the Darndest Things!“
Interesting. The latest ratings release is showing that both MSNBC News and CNN are coming in behind Cartoon Network. (http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/10808) Says Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit: they have more believable characters.
Peter Graves of “Mission: Impossible” fame has died: Peter Graves, the tall, stalwart actor likely best known for his portrayal of Jim Phelps, leader of a gang of special agents who battled evil conspirators in the long-running television series “Mission: Impossible,” died Sunday. Graves died of an apparent heart attack outside his Los Angeles home, [...]
I’ve not seen the movie “Avatar” and I likely won’t see it in the theaters. As good as the movie may be – and there’s no question it’s great, technically, but perhaps not in terms of plotline – I’m a bit dismayed at the reported surge in parents deciding to name their kids after characters [...]
That the defenders of Roman Polanski are dismissing the fact that the man raped and sodomized a 13-year-old girl – after drugging her, I might add – says a lot about them. What it says isn’t good. The staggering double-standard was described perfectly today by Father Tom Reese, Society of Jesus. A “Father Polanski”, guilty [...]
