And Minnesota Ain’t So Nice Anymore In the middle of seeing Fargo for the first time in 1996 Gene Siskel turned to Roger Ebert and said: “This is why I love going to the movies.” …

1971: Baseball in The 1970s and The Stunning Season of Vida Blue Students and fans of the game have argued that in the 1970s, baseball was the best it has ever been. I am not qualified to comment on that. What I can say with confidence is that by far…

Bill Lawrence Puts Together A Brilliant Comic Cast To Deal With Another Very Grim Subject For most of my adult life watching television, I have been in awe of the work of Bill Lawrence, until fairly recently one of the most underappreciated showrunners in the history of TV comedy. I…

That’s Not Rhetorical; I Actually Want to Know Whenever I make a comment on this site in favor of something as simple as treating people like human beings even if they are conservative or accusing a leftist of a double standard, I am treated at best, with dead silence and…

More Than Thirty Years Before Schindler’s List, Stanley Kramer Took An Even More Fortright Look At the Holocaust -And Asked Questions We Still need too There’s a line attributed to either Sam Goldwyn or Louis B. Mayer that basically tells how Hollywood even in its early days reacted to the…

And Is A Foreshadowing Of How They Truly Will Feel About Any Election That Goes Against Them I have come to realize over the last year of the intolerance of the left in almost every front. Their contempt and hatred for anyone who does not completely and totally believe in…

Skyfall: The Best Bond (James Bond) Film Ever Made I will confess that I have wanted to write this article for a long time but was able to come up with a proper format. Those of you who have followed my columns know that I actually started a separate series…

The Failed ‘Purge’ Of Conservative Democrats In 1938 and Some Final Thoughts on the Supreme Court as An Institution The defeat in the battle of the Supreme Court was only the start of the bad news for FDR’s second term. In the middle of 1937 a recession began that would…

The Key Word Is Almost At this point we are close to a quarter of a way through Season 40 of Jeopardy. We have also just completed the quarter-finals of the most recent leg of the Wild Card Tournament. …