It’s taken me a long time to gather my thoughts about THE DARK KNIGHT RISES.  It wasn’t a bad movie, it just wasn’t great.  I should have loved this movie because of it’s angst ridden hero, but it just didn’t work for me. ...

My Mass Effect story has officially become a smallish novel.  The good news, it has now locked together because of the advent of the shrink who strolled in, and because I let go of my hope of doing something rather fun and comedic.  I embraced the fact that...

Well, there's the obvious reason that I really enjoyed this game (until the crappy end), and the characters were vivid and very real, and I came to care about them.  I liked the universe and the various cultures, and I really liked my Shepard, and the elaborate...

Frank Rich is one of my favorite editorialists.  He has a fascinating article in The New Yorker.  I've clipped out the concluding paragraph to whet your appetite, but the full article can be read here.  Rich writes: "Lost in all our declinist panic is...

I was reflecting this morning about the inconsistency and hypocrisy of those on the right.  So they're all yelling about "states rights", and the tenth amendment, and the Federal government is evil.  Except when a state allow gay folks to marry, or make...

Okay, members of Congress should have to have a minimum   IQ before they are allowed to serve.  Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas clearly would not meet that minimum threshold.  Here are his "insightful" comments regarding the Denver movie theater massacre....

How cool is that?  I belong to a super secret Hollywood liberal elite that can see the future, and plan to wreck the GOP nominee in 2012 because D.C. created a villain called Bane back in the '90's, and he got referred to in a crappy Batman movie in 1997, and now...

I've been watching the show BUNHEADS on ABC Family because I loved Sherman-Palladino's other show -- GILMORE GIRLS.  This was also supposed to be about dancers though there is precious little dancing on the show which is one reason I'm disappointed. I'm also...

I'm sort of in a gritchy mood today.  There's a kind of general malaise at work, and there are a couple of things that have really made me angry, and  just decided to vent about them here. First, what is it with the Republicans passing all these voter ID,...

Let me count the was where this movie failed for me.  And now there will be spoilers.  Lots of spoilers.  Be warned.           ***********************************SPOILERS!!!!!******************************    ...