by Bruce Webb In a world where we actually had our priorities straight we wouldn't even be talking about Social Security. The country, the world is sick with fear about our jobs, about keeping our houses, about the plunging values in our 401ks. The LAST thing we need is the Peter G. Petersons fear-m...

2008: A Top 20 Films Countdown Addendum: Going through my film journal (yes, I keep a film journal - I'm that much of an obsessive-complusive/anal-retentive geek!), I realized I completely missed - and hence inadvertently dissed - a number of great films I saw over the last year that I must add to m...

The 2009 GAG Awards: Celebrating the Worst in Cinema As the Oscars have come and gone, and so have the GAG Awards, sponsored by Film School Rejects. These annual awards remember the worst films of 2008. The Love Guru took the most awards, locking up Worst Picture, Worst Director (Marco Schnabel), Wo...

2008: A Top 20 Films Countdown OK, for what's it worth, here are my picks for the best movies I saw in 2008. Many of the documentaries listed here were seen at the Maryland Film Festival. 1. Slumdog Millionaire (UK, dir. Danny Boyle)2. Gran Torino (USA, dir. Clint Eastwood) 3. The Wrestler (USA, dir...

Comrade Alan Greenspan has endorsed the idea of nationalizing B of A and other massive troubled banks. Obama won't do it. Such a move is against our culture, or so sayeth he. Once again, the hip young post-racial president whose very name once sent progs into prog-gasm has proven himself to be more ...

Well, it seems I’m not the only one who’s worried. Jane: Ben Smith says today that the left is “silent on Social Security reform” even as the administration considers it, and quotes Blue Dog Jim Cooper who says Obama is “in a honeymoon phase, and many liberals are afrai...

2009-02-12 LOOTING SOCIAL SECURITY By William Greider / The Nation Governing elites in Washington and Wall Street have devised a fiendishly clever "grand bargain" they want President Obama to embrace in the name of "fiscal responsibility." The government, they argue, having spent billions on bailing...

Current national debt according to http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/ is over 10 trillion dollars! How did we get there? Poverty of financial skills, and discipline. The believe that because the US is so mighty we never have to pay any of it back, in addition to the hypocrisy of taxing the hell out ...

A WSJ examination of the "stimulus" package currently speeding through the halls of Congress. In selling the plan, President Obama has said this bill will make "dramatic investments to revive our flagging economy." Well, you be the judge. Some $30 billion, or less than 5% of the spending in the bill...

We're not back yet from our vacation but I'm trying out the new future posting feature so if you're reading this, hooray, it worked.  Marty and I love watching documentaries and are strangely drawn to doomsday ones. Sometimes I think our obsession with them is unhealthy because I tend to carry ...