December 2010
9 posts
“Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth...”
– James Thurber
“A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn’t make sense.”
– James Thurber
“How can any man be a democrat who is sincerely a democrat?”
– H.L.Mencken
“Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he...”
– H.L.Mencken
“Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them...”
– H.L.Mencken
Manhattan Declaration still an Abject Failure
As the waning year draws to a close, let us look once again to the Great Non-Controversy of 2010. I refer of course to the Manhattan Declaration along with the kerfuffle of Apple’s banning of its silly app for the i-Phone.
So let’s look again at the numbers for this thing. Again I will assume 320 million as the population of the USA and half of those people are adults who might...
Tron Legacy Review ( Many Spoilers )
Where to start with a review of “Tron Legacy”?
Easy, we look back to 1982 and the “groundbreaking” original movie.
I saw that movie when it was released and I don’t remember it as crying out for a sequel. I remember it as cheesy and suffering from the problem of any movie overburdened with the technology of its day - it looked clunky and outdated straight out of the...