RSS 2.0 Follow Us!
 

Related Posts

More on the Janice Hahn Gang Scandal
  • As scandals go, this one’s a doozy: It sure looks as if Hahn is lying about her involvement. If so I think it’s fair to question her judgment. Addendum: Film Ladd really made this an issue again by creating the video he did. He took quite a bit of heat for it, but it turns out this really was a fairly big scandal and one the rest of the media [...]...
    • Occupy Wall Street is Nothing New
  • Consider the following impassioned plea against Wall Street and corporations: Capitalism in the United States has developed in such a way that the industries are owned and controlled through great corporations. Through interlocking directorates these corporations are bound together. The result is that a relatively small group of capitalists with headquarters in Wall Street today are the masters of the industries of the Unites States. Or as we now know [...]...
    • Occupying Wall Street for Fun and…No, Just for Fun
  • So a bunch of people “occupied” Wall Street today. This is an event staged by Anonymous and supposedly it will last until New York sees its own Arab Spring: Politically, Anonymous’ list of grievances is the same as the average DNC mailer (banks, Wall Street, corporate personhood) and their solutions sound familiar too: higher corporate taxation and massive new stimulus programs. They’re basically far-left progressives with a (borderline creepy) flair [...]...
    • How Union Politics Almost Scuttled the Hobbit
  • I think this is old, but I just saw it a couple days ago: So the studio was reluctant to fund a film in a country where actors might shut down production at any moment for any reason. Sounds pretty reasonable to me....
    • Video: Occupy Wall Street Socialists Pwned by Russian Ex-Pat
  • Lest you think this guy is humorless, here’s one of his previous clips uploaded last year. ...
    • RIP James Arness, aka The Thing from Another World
  • Here’s the CBS story on Arness’ passing: I understand why most people think of him as Matt Dillon. I never saw Gunsmoke. Don’t think I’ve seen a single episode, which is odd not that I think of it. But his first film role really stuck with me since I saw it as a child. He was the monster in The Thing from Another World: That is Arness coming through the [...]...
    • Mid-Day Music Break: Blondie – Dreaming
  • This is the song that got me hooked on Blondie: This song has sort of the same New Wave vibe as I Melt With You by Modern English. Not sure why the latter is on the radio constantly and this song rarely if ever....
    • Student Protesters Taunt Police in Trafalgar Square
  • The police had their professionalism tested by a bunch of foul mouthed yobs last night: The anti-police vibe is very strong among the protesters all over England. It would only take one incident of excessive shoving by either side for this powder keg to go off....
    • Wall-E: Rugged Green Individualist
  • I took the kids to see Wall-E. It’s an enjoyable film in the manner of Bambi. My seven year old was particularly enthusiastic. I enjoyed the visuals and the director’s mostly successful attempt to tell a cinematic story, i.e. without much dialogue. In this sense, Director Andrew Stanton really has emulated one of the films that most clearly inspired him, 2001 (from which he also lifts some music cues). Also [...]...

    • Video: Occupy Wall Street Circa 1979

    John on October 17, 2011 at 8:08 am

    Hat tip to Chris Moody for this clip. This comes from a film called Early Warnings. It shows a 1979 protest in New York on the 50th anniversary of the 1929 stock market crash. See if the vibe isn’t familiar:

    YouTube Preview Image

    Addendum: And here’s OWS, or something that sounds remarkably similar, circa 1923.

    Post to Twitter

    Category: Politics |

    More articles

    Previous:
    Next:

    Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.