As a demonstration of how much vehicle crash safety has improved over the past 50 years, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety recently pitted a 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air and a 2009 Chevrolet Malibu against one another in the standard 40-mph frontal offset crash test (hat tip, Dad). Wow. There is a lot to be … Read more
Rumer Willis, budding actress and the 21-year-old daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, has been presented with an Academy Award for Best Actress, her spokesperson said late Saturday, though it was not immediately clear for what work she was receiving the award. On Sunday, a spokesperson for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and … Read more
Yes, really. Shall I waste some faint hope that even Obama’s most impassioned admirers will acknowledge that no reasonable case whatsoever can be made for this? I mean, rational people can agree that this is an award of hope and expectation as opposed to one of achievement, right? Shall I waste even fainter hope that … Read more