Archive for September 30th, 2011
Bloody Chapter of du Pont Family History Getting Big Screen Treatment
Steve Carell will be playing murder John du Pont in “Foxcatcher” a movie by Moneyball director Bennett Miller. Via Iwatchstuff.com: “In the film, Carell will play John du Pont, a member of the famed Du Pont family who used some of his vast, inherited fortune to build a wrestling training camp called Team Foxcatcher on […]
So this “Occupy Wall Street” thing is happening
I once work along side of a woman who thought that if she rubbed cedar blocks under her arms, she wouldn’t have body odor. She thought wrong. Ever since then I guess I’ve had a visceral distaste for drum circle dancing, ironic sign holding, Ralph Nader voting hippies. This news via boing boing seems like a good thing though.
Friday Open Thread
First Read: “No president since George H.W. Bush has had more foreign-policy successes happen under his watch than President Obama. The death of bin Laden. The dismantling of al Qaeda. The ouster of Khaddafy. And the end of combat operations in Iraq.” And now the radical American-born Al Qaeda leader, Anwar al-Awlaki, was killed in […]
Kevin Wade is Exploring What Exactly?
Exploring whether Christine O’Donnell is delusional enough for yet another quioxitic run for high office? Whether the tea party message is so toxic in Delaware that it would doom his chances right from the start? Whether Tom Carper is one of those politicians that everyone dislikes but still wins going away every time.
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