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Brave Movie Review

Brave Movie Review

Directed by Mark Andrews, Brenda Thompson, and Steve Purcell Written by Mark Andrews, Steve Purcell, Brenda Thompson, and Irene Mecchi Starring Kelly Macdonald, Billy Connolly, and Emma Thompson Merida's hairBrave is about two things: the relationship between Merida and Elinor, and the natural beauty of Scotland. Actually, three

Winston Churchill's "The Dream"

John Derbyshire scanned in a short work by Winston Churchill, The Dream. Churchill wrote it near the end of his life, a reminiscence of his father, then dead for 50 years, and all the things that had happened in the world since. It was touching, and pleasing to read. Churchill

Measuring Wealth

Dennis Mangan has a short bit on what the fortune of Howard Hughes would have amounted to today, that spawned a couple of nice links. The 10 Richest Men of All Time Adjusted for inflation, John D. Rockefeller’s net worth is reportedly upwards of USD$ 663 billion. What was

Photo essay on Kowloon walled city

Kowloon Walled City was demolished in 1992, but it has been documented in photographs. If a writer invented this place, it probably would have been described as too incredible to believe.

Burning City and Burning Tower Book Review

Burning City and Burning Tower Book Review

By Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle I avoided these particular books for quite some time due to their unusual premise: Los Angeles in an age of magic. I shouldn't have waited; these books are everything I like about Niven and Pournelle, a big cast of characters in a

The New American Divide

Charles Murray is taking a tour of the opinion pages, stumping for his new book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010. I've been looking forward to this book for some time now. Murray is arguing that Americans of all classes used to share a common civic

Boots on the Ground Book Review

The Fight to Liberate Afghanistan from Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. 2001-2002 by Dick Camp $30.00; 320 pages I receieved this book for free from LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program. Boots on the Ground, as the subtitle indicates, only covers events until 2002. The book does briefly cover events