The Most Beautiful Fraud: The Critics are Raving About Atlas Shrugged!

Because I guess we’ve exhausted all of our other entertainment options, somebody has gone ahead and made a movie of Atlas Shrugged.  The troubled production has finally arrived in cineplexes, and while it’s not the big-budget blockbuster Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie extravaganza we were once promised, I’m sure it’s a wonderful …

The Sandwich Century — #8: The Breakfast Sandwich

The problem with writing about the breakfast sandwich, as part of the Sandwich Century project, is that it’s not really a single sandwich, as such, but more a genre of sandwich.  To borrow a line from Parks and Recreation, you can’t say your favorite kind of cake is birthday cake, …

Have an Opinion: Your Bra Bomb Better Work, Nerdlinger!

Over at the National Review, they’ve given idiot-at-large Jay Nordlinger a column called “Impromptus”, in which he jots down his half-formed mental emissions.  As with most such random-thoughts columns, you get what you pay for.  Let’s watch! It was interesting to read Kate Trinko’s piece on Michele Bachmann and learn …

Watchin’ My Stories: “Billy’s Prison Diary – How It All Happened”

Today we’ll be re-launching a short story series I started several years ago called “Billy’s Prison Diary”.  Enjoy. *** to hear henry tell it them people just about controled the whole world.  sometimes wed be over to lances diner grill and tommyd be readin the paper and henryd up and …