Kurt Vonnegut didn’t get to read his poem on the air during the Daily Show but this was later posted on the show’s Internet site. LIBERAL CRAP I NEVER WANT TO HEAR AGAIN Give us this day our daily bread. Oh sure. Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those …

The Great Dictator – This movie is brillaint, moving and amazing. Charlie Chaplin plays two key characters – Hynkel (who is quite clearly a take-off on Hitler) and a Jewish barber. It’s mind-blowing to imagine the daring it took to make a movie making fun of Hitler at such a …

I recently watched two Steve Earlie movies: Steve Earle on Austin City Limits and Just An American Boy. He is one of my favorite musicians since he is so articulate, intelligent and daring. These two dvds, especially when watched together, provide a good look at the complete Steve Earle. The …

Richard Feynman and Kurt Vonnegut are two of my heroes and those are damn hard to find these days. Both are fascinating, smart and unique. Feynman was a writer who managed to make this simple-minded reader really excited to read about science. I read with relish Feynman’s two autobiographical books, …

Robert Crais, along with George Pelecanos, Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly, is part of a new generation of crime writers that are sometimes as good as older masters like Robert Parker and Donald Westlake but sometimes miss the mark. The vocabulary and situations in their books are sometimes more modern, …

Penguin movie disproves evolution?

As with many reporters, I will always have a soft spot for Michael Connelly. While I was working as a crime reporter for the Hemet News and the Sun City News in So. Cal as a younger man, he was a cop reporter for the L.A. Times. My dream then …

Everything you think you know about Al Jazeera is wrong. You can think of “Control Room” as being like the opposite of “Outfoxed,” the documentary about the Fox Network. Where Outfoxed deftly demonstrated how biased, slanted, one-sided Fox really is, Control Room clearly shows how Al Jazeera is more balanced, …

When he's funny Block can be as hilarious as Donald Westlake, one of my true writing heroes....

I've been thinking for the last day about dead bodies