Archive for September 2009

The Fear Schematic

Sep 30th, 2009 | By JP | Category: Rants

(What follows is not intended as diatribe against any one particular cable news network. Fox News is as responsible for this cultural mistrust and calamity as are MSNBC, CNN, and Headline News. They all should be destroyed for what they have done to the culture-wide values conversations that, at present, are not going anywhere. Aside [...]



Okay Man, For Real: You Need to Focus

Sep 30th, 2009 | By JP | Category: Politics, Rants

What a gesture by Barack Obama, eh?  Going all the way to Denmark to personally petition the International Olympic Committee to bring the 2016 Olympic games to Chicago, back to American soil, and in the President’s hometown, no less.
What a guy.  Enlisting the help of Oprah Winfrey and his wife, too?  Awesome.  I hope it [...]



I’m Supposed to Feel Sorry For This Guy?

Sep 30th, 2009 | By JP | Category: Entertainment

Roman Polanski is the legendary director of several incredible films, most notable among them Chinatown, Rosemary’s Baby, and The Pianist, the 2003 movie for which he won a Best Director Academy Award. In a sadder chapter of his life, he was married to the pregnant Sharon Tate when she was brutally murdered by members of [...]