November 2012

Pirates of the Imagination

Sunday, November 18th, 2012 Movies

I just get such a kick out of the Pirates trilogy (the Gore Verbinski movies; not the fool’s-gold fourth entry that I won’t even see). It’s such an aesthetic triumph; it’s such delightfully arty populism. I love how the writers “reverse engineered a trilogy” by finding inconsequential, throwaway elements in the first movie (Captain Jack […]

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The Makers and the Takers

Friday, November 9th, 2012 Politics

If only one good thing comes out of the rhetorical cacophony surrounding this year’s election results, I hope it’s this: can we please, as a nation and as a society, reverse the inverted positions of “provider” and “taker” in our political language? Former Nixon economic adviser Herb Stein first used the term “supply side” in […]

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RevenueWatch memorial cover commission

Monday, November 5th, 2012 commissions

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