Dying Languages

I just read this article about how there is a language in Mexico that is spoken by only two persons, and they refuse to talk to each other. Call me a cultural elitist, but I find losing a language to be no big loss to the world. If no one can understand it anyway,...

RIP Sam Kinison

Sam Kinison died 19 years ago yesterday, and the world lost one of the greatest stand-up comedians to ever grace the stage. I never met the man, and wasn’t quite old enough to get to see him perform live, but I loved his HBO Specials, appearances on Letterman,...

Hanna- not Montana, the cool one

I’ve seen the trailer for Hanna many times, and I was worried that it would be the kind of movie where they have a cool concept, they show you a bunch of cool stuff in the trailer, and then you see the movie and realize that everything good in it was in the...