At Home with President Obama
The media generated fanfare surrounding Super Tuesday is over. The candidates, no doubt, have retreated…
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The Kingdom of Paranoia
It’s usually at about this time of year that I become particularly sentimental and my…
A Nuclear Nightmare
Last night, I had one of the most horrific nightmares I’ve ever experienced. I dreamed…
Slavoj Zizek: Living in the End Times
A lengthy but illuminating exposition of Zizek’s latest batch of ideas:
The End of the American Era
Perhaps one of the funniest yet most obscure Monty Python sketches portrayed a meeting of…
Learning Chinese
The Beijing Olympics have ended just as flamboyantly as they began. I watched the Closing…
Beijing Paranoia Strikes Again
The Games of the Paranoid Olympiad continue; however the air of unrelenting terror is only…
Crisis in Georgia: Call Kevin Rudd
My first introduction to the former Soviet Republic of Georgia took place in a Moscow…
Review: “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” starring Brendon Fraser
Some movies are not intended to be high art. Before the invention of television, this…