I don’t often go picking on something beloved without a perceived greater purpose, but I’m going to today. I don’t like Bruce Springsteen’s “Thunder Road.” I never have, and I never will. Furthermore I don’t understand what is supposed to be so appealing about it. (There are lots of songs I don’t necessarily like but can appreciate.) … Read more
So there’s this film out there about the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. Eleven people died, with several more wounded. The resulting environmental and economic damage was catastrophic. The Gulf economy has largely recovered in many places, but a lot of livelihoods perished and never came back, too. I don’t want to watch a movie about … Read more
Can you handle this upcoming political theater? I’m not sure I can. Monday night’s presidential debate figures to be one of the single most entertaining and unpredictable political events of the past 50 years or so. Trying to script in advance how this is going to go—well, let’s just get the proverbial hundred monkeys and hundred … Read more