- Wednesday, September 27, 2006 — 55 Articles Published
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Public Memories of 9/11: Exploiting Tragedy Five Years Later— Remembering 9/11 has been the object of continual political exploitation for five years. Most of all, Bush has used it
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Analysis of a Rumor: U.S. To Work With Hamas— Under intense stress, people will hear their worst fears vocalized, even by allies. Such is the U.S.-Israeli dilemma.
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Torn Between Two Liars— Clinton says one thing and Condi says another and both are lying.
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Book Review: Calculated Loss by Linda L. Richards— Calculated Loss is an intriguing mystery that effectively combines high finance with haute cuisine and is highly recommended.
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Book Review: Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth by Kim Paffenroth— The PC bigotries of academic film books, from their pretentious vapidity to the political showboating.
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Software Review: Knowledge Adventure Books by You— The book creation software Books by You makes a great educational tool and personal gift.
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Book Review: Agitator - The Cinema of Takashi Miike by Tom Mes— A film-by-film analysis of Miike's filmography.
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Xbox 360 Review: Lego Star Wars II - The Original Trilogy— A far better value compared to those ridiculous "Limited Editon" DVDs for Star Wars followers.
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Bill, Condi, Hillary - A Triangle of Blame— The Bill, Hillary and Condi show is embarrasing.
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Spinning the NIE— Bush declassifies the latest National Intelligence Estimate summary in order to rebut a leak — and ends up affirming it.
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Day By Day for September 27, 2006— Chris Muir's excellent Day By Day cartoon, for September 27, 2006
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Book Review: Stardust by Neil Gaiman— Mr. Gaiman can genuinely create a world where wonder is an everyday occurrence.
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Adventures of an Unlikely Superhero (Part Six): The Almost-Fairy Tale Marriage— It's a remarkable thing to live with someone who fully, openly supports your growth, but the fairy tale union with
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Movie Review:The Black Dahlia— A whole lot of gory nonsense.
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Music Review: Mushroomhead - Savior Sorrow— I call it progressive doom metal, and I like it.
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Junior Brown - Not Just Another Guitar Player— He uses that odd, misshapen piece of hardware to create a lot of different sounds, and they are all...
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TV Review: House - "Lines in the Sand"— All the pieces of this puzzle add up to a great episode.
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Her Friend is Upset Because She Had to Miss Child's Birthday Party: Astrology-Based Advice— Dear Elsa, One of my friends had a birthday party for one of her little girls.
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Music Review: Black Label Society - Shot to Hell— Zakk delivers an excellent disk that has brought me back to the BLS fold.
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Comic Review: DC Comics (Post Infinite Crisis) 52, Week 15— 52, a DC Comics event starring Supernova, Booster Gold Renee Montoya and The Question
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Rock Rebellion: Guitar Tablature Disappears From The Internet— Thanks to the MPA, being a rock 'n' roll outlaw has never been so easy.
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Peace, Harmony, Movies: Blu-Ray and HD-DVD Could Share— A British company has an idea that would allow Blu-Ray and HD-DVD to co-exist, but it probably won't happen.
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Book Review: The Search by Naguib Mahfouz— A review of the ethics of Mahfouz's novel.
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Movie Review: The Black Dahlia
— Brian De Palma's latest has enough style and too much plot to be a successful pick.
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Music Review: Introducing Bela Lakatos & The Gypsy Youth Project - Music From The Heart— I don't think I have heard such wonderfully wild energy as is on display in the music of this CD.
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Enter To Win - Toucan Cove CD Six Pack— This collection is for fans of electronica and all six CDs feature women in the DJ, producer, writer, or vocalist
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TV Review: Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip— Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme are back, and people should be talking.
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Groundbreaking Broadcaster Ralph Story Dead at Eighty-Six— The witty and casual "unofficial historian of Southern California" was also noted as a writer and producer.
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Why George W. Didn’t Chase bin Laden Before 9/11— Much has been made of Bill Clinton missing opportunities to capture or kill Osama bin Laden during his presidency.
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US Now The Rodney Dangerfield Nation: We Get No Respect— Other countries mock us and there's nothing we can do about it, dammit.
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Book Review: The Drifting Classroom - Volume One by Kazuo Umezu— Volume One of Kazuo Umezu’s violent and hyperactive horror manga series.
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Terrell Owens Allegedly Tries To Commit Suicide— In the aftermath of the latest Owens-related mess, the Cowboys and the NFL will circle their wagon and protect their
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Movie Review: Lady Vengeance— Chan-wook Park's vengeance trilogy comes to a bloody good end.
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Movie Review: The Red Shoes— It's like they took a blender to all of the big Asian horror films and came out with this.
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Concert Review: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Atlanta, GA - September 22, 2006— Fans wondering if this tour is more about 30 years or HC will be pleased or disappointed to know, depending
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Prison Break as a Quarter Horse— Prison Break is the Quarter Horse, we can sense that the show is already out of steam.
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U.S. Loses Ground In Global Competitiveness— America is threatened both by terrorism and our own short-sightedness in the global marketplace.
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Music Reviews: Roy Orbison - Lonely and Blue and In Dreams— "With Roy, you didn't know if you were listening to mariachi or opera." - Bob Dylan
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Music Review: Hunting, Black Label Society, Evolocity, Within Temptation, and Iron Maiden— More metal maddness in this installment of Marty's Musical Meltdown.
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For Gradkowski, It's All in the Opportunity— We wanted to see Bruce Gradkowski get a shot for the Buccaneers. He has it, but not the way we
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Book Review: Batman And the Monster Men— Matt Wagner's new Batman graphic novel puts the Caped Crusader squarely in a 1940s Monogram B-movie.
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Q: Why Do Battery Letters Skip from A to C? And Was There Ever a B-Cell Battery?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Book Review: Feud (The Lady Grace Mysteries) by Lady Grace Cavendish— Mystery's afoot in the Elizabethan court but the Queen has no fear for her young pursuivant, Lady Grace Cavendish, is
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Masked and Anonymous: Bob Dylan in the 21st Century— After almost a half century of constant, electric, and yes, sometimes bewildering change, it seems that Bob Dylan has finally
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Book Review: The Brief History of the Dead— They're not really dead as long as we remember them
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Music Review: Brian Posehn - Live in: Nerd Rage— Posehn's comedy brings out the nerd in all of us.
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Music Review: Weird Al Yankovic - Straight Outta Lynwood— This is the best Weird Al album ever. Seriously.
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New Album Releases, 9-26-2006: Weird Al Yankovic, Solomon Burke, Scissor Sisters, Janet Jackson
— Weird Alfred Matthew Yankovic, cause he's Straight Outta Lynwood, and he will hurt you
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Concert Review: Radio Birdman, Mudhoney and the Dirtbombs in Detroit, 9.3.06— If anyone had their doubts about Radio Birdman's continuing relevance, those doubts had evaporated long before the final chords of
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Welcome to the Book Fair!— No queues, no bad coffee, and no sore feet - but it is all here...
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Blogcritics Goodie Bag: Josh Kelley, Sophe Lux, Five.Bolt.Main, Blanco Diablo, and Hymns— Audio and video streams from recent and upcoming album releases.
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Ruud van Nistelrooij Finally Speaks Out on Van Basten Situation— Dutch coach Marco van Basten has nice guys instead of great athletes in "his" dutch national team.
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Performance Art Review: The "Jifts" of Dina Martina— Seattle "drag" legend's "Soft Palate, Fallen Arches" performance steals cynical Manhattan hearts.
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Mac Game Review: Pile & Pop— This is a simple and fun game that will provide amusement when you want it.
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Movie Review: Roman Scandals (1933)— A rollicking Eddie Cantor comedy from 1933 pops up as a bargain videotape.
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