Watching 12 Angry Men

Bowing to the insistent demand from SI reader guruprasad, we went over to Blockbuster yesterday and borrowed 12 Angry Men (guru, you owe us $2.03 or we’ll settle for a Vidyarthi Bhavan Masala Dosa). Released in 1957, 12 Angry Men is acclaimed director Sidney Lumet’s first shot at direction. Yes, Sidney Lumet. The same bloke […]

U.S. Auto Sales – Down, Down, Down

The only option left for the U.S. is to do a reverse secession of Michigan (a bigger entity ditching a smaller unit) because the old U.S. auto industry, by which we mean GM, Ford and Chrysler, is well and truly screwed. We don’t know why President Obama is throwing more bailout money into the Auto […]