Hunger Games Lacks Strong Emotional Heft

Jennifer Lawrence is a fine actress, and mark our words carefully now, one about whom y’all will be hearing and talking a lot in the coming years and decades. – The Wise SI in the review of Winter’s Bone, June 2010 As we were driving home through the dense mid-Atlantic fog, we couldn’t help thinking […]

Crazy Crowds for Hunger Games

We’ve never seen anything like this. Not even for the Twilight nonsense. The midnight show of Hunger Games (Jennifer Lawrence) is being screened in at least seven halls at a theatre on the East Coast. And it’s the same story across the U.S. Multiple midnight shows. And we expect every hall to be full. The […]

U.S. Job Killer Nasscom Thinks Americans are Really, Really Stupid People

Indian software services trade organization Nasscom must have a very poor opinion of Americans. Not content with robbing hundreds of thousands of Americans of their well-paying software and call-center jobs, Indian businesses are now stooping to insult the intelligence of Americans. American Job Killers As anyone with that body appendage called the head knows, Indian […]

Carnage Review – OMG, Brilliant

Alan: My son did not disfigure your son. (A few minutes later) Penelope: Their son is a threat to homeland security. (some minutes pass) Penelope: The victim and the criminal are not the same. (a little later) Nancy: These people are monsters….I want to get drunk (she picks up more of the hosts’ fine scotch […]

Word of the Day – Stormannsgalskap

Stormannsgalskap is a Norwegian word which means great men’s madness. Our only encounter with the word so far has been in Adam Lashinsky’s recent book Inside Apple. Lashinsky borrows the term’s extension to the business world from former Harvard professor Richard Tedlow who used it to refer to extraordinary leaders who create great enterprises. In […]