Reactions to the Third Presidential Debate

Once again the most useful piece of evaluation of the debate comes from the focus group run for Time.com. Amy Sullivan reports: In politics it is generally not considered a good sign when voters are laughing at you, not with you. And by the end of the third and last presidential debate, the undecided voters image [Read More]

OBAMA WINS 2ND DEBATE

McCain has 27 days to find a better way to take on his opponent or he’ll be calling him Mr. President. —John Dickerson in Slate.com Click on more to read the analysis of how undecided voters reacted to the debate. They Liked Him, They Really Liked Him From TIME’s Amy Sullivan: As he did for the first presidential debate, Democratic image [Read More]

Wall E

If you are like me and wonder how Pixar can pull off one creative blockbuster after another, here is an interesting peek behind the scenes of the studio.  In an interview the writer and director of Finding Nemo and Wall E, Andrew Stanton, intimates that Finding Nemo did not work as a film until very image [Read More]

3:10 to Yuma

To test the picture quality of a Blue-Ray high definition TV video disc, I watched 3:10 to Yuma. This western, starring Russel Crow and Christian Bale, has beautiful landscape photography that is much sharper on Blue-Ray than anything I have seen on TV before. The film itself was pretty mediocre except for the last image [Read More]

John McCain: Drama Queen

I don’t remember a time in my life time were a non-violent event caused so dramatic a situation as the financial crisis that is unfolding in the U.S. right now. Mickey Kaus captures well on Slate.com the fickleness of John McCain: Drama Queen: No convention today! … OK, it’s on! … The economy’s sound… No, image [Read More]