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POPSOn Henry Jaglom Jonathan Rosenbaum on one of the most pompous living American film directors. Rosenbaum is reviewing Jaglom's Venice/Venice.
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POPSAmerica Finally Getting Sick and Tired of Hearing About Barack Obama
They aren’t talking about the fact that it was Obama who first trotted out the race card by suggesting we’d all be scared into submission by Republican assertions that Obama didn’t “look like all those other guys on the dollar bills.” As even more complete picture of the candidate begins to emerge, the number of Americans expressing doubt about Obama increases. In the Illinois State Senate Obama sponsored bills to provide universal health care coverage, drastically increase welfare, handcuff the police and burden them with administrative overhead, make it more difficult and time consuming for law-abiding citizens to purchase lawfully-regulated firearms for self-defense and generally expand government, welfare, affirmative action and other entitlement programs. By all accounts, Ms. Hilton’s energy policy, is in fact, more comprehensive than Obama’s, which focuses almost exclusively on the development of petroleum alternatives, tune-ups and tire pressure checks.
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POPSProtecting Them Protects Us "This case is about our unequivocal treaty obligation to comply with an International Court of Justice judgment and the Vienna Convention, which has allowed diplomats such as myself to save hundreds if not thousands of American lives. Were the tables turned -- American citizens arrested abroad and denied consular access, with an ICJ judgment requiring review of those cases for prejudice, and another nation refusing to comply -- our leaders would rightly demand that compliance be forthcoming."
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POPSClinton, Obama Debate Focused On Issues Did anyone else watch the 2nd half of the LA debates in the Kodak theatre? I was so impressed with Hillary! And it really drove home how much I DO NOT like Wolf Blitzer. He is short (sorry short people, I'm being sarcastic), he seems to have a particular disdain for some women and he is overbearing and obnoxious. You were booed several times by the crowd and you deserved it Wolf!
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POPSSurprise! Mark Zuckerberg Has No Charisma This is what happens when a celebrity CEO who has only been featured in glowing profiles finally does a TV interview. He turns out to be more than a little pompous and not too charming. Reminds me of the infamous Bill Gates deposition...
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POPSSteven Colbert Grows a Strike Beard Mr. Colbert is obviously more of a red blooded American than his fellow beard toting late night television hosts, as is exemplified by his superior facial hair.
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POPSO'Reilly, the HATE that you Love to Love?! DON'T read if you love Love! The most salient issue is not that O’Reilly fancies himself a “traditionalist,” rejects the secularization of America, extols the Judeo-Christian foundations of our nation, and bemoans the perfidious culture war being propagated by the liberal Hollywood elite while simultaneously threatening to massage an employee’s tits. What’s most disturbing is that that he completely sucks at phone sex. To help Bill navigate his way past life’s many obstacles, we figured we’d give him some pointers for future producer-harassing endeavors At times during phone sex you use complicated, almost clinical terms such as “intravenously” and “modus operandi.” Avoid immature descriptions. This is key. You sound like 13 when you use phrases like “rubbing your big boobs.” Avoid misspoken or mispronounced words. A lot has been made about your falafel comment, and it was obviously a blunder, but come on. It’s a big blunder.
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POPSRidiculous Trends Never to Succumb to Issue #3 Wow . . . When I was sitting in my comfy couch thinking of more ridiculous trends to include in my little list, I couldn't have dreamt that anyone would go this far. Why shouldn't you wear your nails this long? (We won't even go into the toenails thing). First off, how do you DO anything? How do you type, pick up a penny, scratch an itch, anything at all? So, that's first; practicality. Second, you're going to scare away all of the children - if that's what you're going for, you could just wear a mask. Third, it makes you look like a ridiculous, spoiled, pompous person who never has to lift a finger . . . literally. And lastly, it looks downright ridiculous.
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POPSWhat are memory and truth good for?
I am becoming obsessively fascinated with China. This post and the response it elicited give example to what has drawn me in. An excerpt from the response: "Meanwhile, young people, especially teenagers without much power of judgment, have strong adaptability to the mainstream. We immediately learned how to deal with sham. We knew in our hearts that the concepts from the politics and history classes were pompous, empty and false, yet at the same time we could recite them backwards and forwards. Memorization begot high grades; there’s no need to think, to discern, to discover the truth – What if there were conflicts between the facts and the textbooks? As long as we memorized the textbooks we could pass the College Entrance Exams! When we received brilliant high grades from our politics and history exams, we completely adjusted to the untrue. However, we discovered that more horrifying than our adapting was our powerlessness. One time, I asked the teacher a question a
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