“Hurt Locker,” the intense thriller about an American bomb squad in Iraq–a low budget film with a tiny audience–beat the 3-D anti-military environmentalist blockbuster “Avatar” in the Academy Awards. “Avatar” won the cinematography and art direction, as was proper, but “Hurt Locker” won best picture
I love analogies. Here is one from Charles Krauthammer on a conundrum in the health care reform bill: Obama was reduced to suggesting that his health-care reform was indeed popular because when you ask people about individual items (for example, eliminating exclusions for preexisting conditions
The Washington Post on Saturday carried two front page stories, side by side, on John Patrick Bedell, the man who shot and wounded two guards at the Pentagon before he was killed. The one story, Pentagon shooter, others strike symbols of ‘power for the powerless’,
Here is another way to look at abstract or non-representational art. . . .Most of us appreciate the beauty of nature. Most of us appreciate art that makes us aware. perhaps in a heightened way, the beauty of nature, as the best realistic landscape art
Thanks to Tickletext for this great quotation from the Christian abstract artist Makoto Fujimura: I’ve heard many people say of contemporary art: “my kids can do that.” I encourage them, then to try it themselves, don’t let kids have all the fun! Try to make
Bruce Gee is a long-time friend, baseball comrade, and commenter on this blog. He makes and repairs furniture for a living. He just put together this website for his business, Heartland Furniture. I thought I’d give him a plug. He’s done work for us–fixing up
Not all pro-lifers are Republicans and not all pro-lifers are conservatives. Twelve pro-life DEMOCRATS in Congress are stepping up. They say they are willing to kill the health care bill if it would fund abortions. A dozen House of Representatives Democrats opposed to abortion are
How informed about current events are you? Try this to find out: Test Your News IQ Q1 – Pew Research Center. HT: Bruce Gee
Raymond Ibrahim takes up the question of why so many jihadists, for all of their alleged Islamic piety, often are so sexually immoral, to the point of going to strip clubs before their suicide bombing runs. After a fascinating tour of this phenomenon in Islamic
Dartmouth researchers have devised a way to use technology to detect art forgeries: Sparse coding technology has long been an important tool in neuroscience research, allowing scientists to quantitatively determine how optical information is represented by neurons in the brain. Dartmouth researchers have recently extended
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