Hollywood's Appetite for Comic Books Continues

The trailer for "AcquaMan."

Great Moments in Marketing

Burger King is honoring Wisconsin with an unusual burger: the Green Bay Whopper.

And how many slices of cheese does it have? Mucho.

Totalitarianism's Greatest Critic

December 11, 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Aleksandr Isaievech Solzhenitsyn. A writer of immense talent and spiritual depth, the century’s greatest critic of the totalitarian immolation of liberty and human dignity, a thinker and moral witness who illumined the fate of the human soul hemmed in by barbed wire in the East, and a materialist cornucopia in the West, the mature Solzhenitsyn remained remarkably faithful to the twin imperatives of courage and truth. A modern Saint George, he slew the dragon of ideological despotism with rare eloquence, determination, and grit. For that alone, he deserves to be forever remembered.

Read all of Daniel J. Mahoney's City Journal essay here.

Art Book Gift Ideas

Arnie Fenner at Muddy Colors has suggestions.

Omar Sharif Bridge

FutureLawyer has the details. 

[A retired lawyer has been trying to persuade me to take up the game. I have resisted. It sounds like a prolonged stint on the Russian front.]

Art Film

The trailer for "Joe versus the Volcano."

Tongue in Cheek

Godfrey Elfwick celebrates Titania McGrath's return from her hellish Twitter banishment.

Little Things

Take a few seconds and read "Toast" at David Kanigan's Live & Learn blog.

You will know exactly what is meant.

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A Distracted New World?

What Huxley teaches is that in the age of advanced technology, spiritual devastation is more likely to come from an enemy with a smiling face than from one whose countenance exudes suspicion and hate. In the Huxleyan prophecy, Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours. There is no need for wardens or gates or Ministries of Truth. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.

- From Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman, 1985

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