Here is my talk about haunting moments in storytelling, from the Storytelling Conference that Act One hosted last October. Following my talk there is about thirty minutes of discussion with our panelists which included Dr. Peter Kreeft (Socrates and Jesus), Bill Marsilli (screenwriter Deja Vu), Kare...

Fear-mongering rules the day By Jonah Goldberg  |   Wednesday, March 11, 2009 Imagine a child falls down a well. Now imagine I offer to lend the parents my ladder to save her, but only if they promise to paint my house. Would you applaud me for not letting a crisis go to waste? O...

Gawd, Politico is full of crap: He called for reducing abortions and seeking common ground on one of the nation’s most divisive issues — promises that led some on the right to think maybe, just maybe, Barack Obama was a different kind of Democrat. But no more. A series of decisions in th...

There we were, two tourist bums sitting on Pondicherry's seawall, drinking wine hidden in a bag.  Pondicherry (now Puducherry)  is in South India, and therefore the wine was Indian--Grover Vineyards Cabernet-Shiraz, produced from grapes grown on the slopes of the Na...

Watchmen WE WALKED OUT. Awful. Disgusting. Degrading. Vile. Barbarous. The kind of entertainment the Roman mobs were watching just before the barbarians came over the walls. Did I say depraved? I meant to. If you let your kids go to this piece of absolute unmitigated garbage, you deserve whatever ni...

What was left of the house was actually very little. Smoke was still coming from what used to be the left side as the chimney seemed the only thing left standing. It was an eerie scene at the end of a cul-de-sac of homes that would sell for upwards of $600,000. The trees of Holmes Run lay just behin...

Your one stop pundit shop. Bob Herbert: The American dream was alive and well and seemingly unassailable. But somehow, following the oil shocks, the hyperinflation and other traumas of the 1970s, Americans allowed the right-wingers to get a toehold — and they began the serious work of smotheri...

Reacting to Eric Cantor's moronic objection to President Obama's reversal of George Bush's executive order of stem cell research: CANTOR: [T]here’s a reason why this discussion is coming up this week. Why are we going and distracting ourselves from the economy? This is job number one; let&rsqu...

Here's how we celebrated yesterday - the combination of balmy spring like weather plus the extra evening hour from Daylight-Savings. Proving boys never grow up: This all happened after Sam and Kip (my oldest daughter and son-in-law) and their six children had left following dinner and Patrick's birt...

Imagine our shock as we pulled into our driveway around 8:45 tonight to see flames shooting high into the night sky not far behind our house. We called someone who lived in the area of the fire and she confirmed that it was a house just two doors down from them. It was obviously a very serious fire ...