Section 5: The Death of Tragedy: Tragedy has had a long history and has always been, and indeed continues to be, of great cultural significance.  Who has not heard of Shakespeare ?  Even my own mother, who left school when she was 15 in 1932 had studied Julius Caesar (not ranked as a trage...

TALLAHASSEE, AP–Bobby Bowden appealed to the NCAA to include wins from his past before. He may have to do it again. Florida State will appeal the NCAA ruling in an academic fraud case including the vacating of 14 wins, but should the University lose the appeal Bowden will likely try a new tack...

Putting the March 11 episode up early since I only slept three hours last night, and I have a doctor's appointment at 10:30 a.m., so there's no way I'll still be up at midnight. As the title suggests, this episode is a bit of a mixed bag -- a little this, a little that, some of it music that has nea...

REAL SILLY The following op-ed piece in the San Francisco Chronicle is worth some attention involving an initiative called RealDVD* by Real Networks.  Titled the "Movie industry's shortsighted fight", it explains: "Thomas Edison, probably America's best-known and most prominent inventor of all time...

Last week Rachel Maddow called out failed Clinton consigliere Mark Penn for running an evil PR firm, Burson-Marsteller. The firm is evil, and Penn should just shut up. But he didn't! So he paid: After Maddow reamed Burson for working for a laundry list of the world's dirtiest companies, Penn sent ou...

Hello and hello, and welcome to something new and hopefully regular that we at hecklerspray towers have been itching to put together - something about video games! Yay! Sure, there may be millions of other sites, blogs and tweetpiles (or whatever the kids call them) littering the intrasphere, but th...

You’ll want to read neo-neocon today. She’s got quotes by Lenin and thoughts on Dostoevsky and yes, it’s all relevant, relevant, relevant. The quotes from Lenin are chilling and you will be able to relate all of them to what is happening in America, today, even though President Oba...

Pentagon: Chinese vessels harassed unarmed ship There's something happening here. What it is ...... is very very clear.  John Jay spoke of it in his essay here - nature hates a vacuum. And Obama is creating that vacuum - "where the sun recedes. the United States navy will disappear fr...

Resident Evil 5 has completely screwed up Chris Redfield for life, as the latest live-action viral proves there's always something there to remind him. Capcom really should have invested a little money in securing the rights to Naked Eyes "There's Always Something There To Remind Me" for their serie...

Christ "is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him." (Colossians 1:15-16)I hiked up Gunung...