(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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]