Daily Archives: March 7, 2012
Speech and Kirk Cameron
Posted on March 7, 2012 672 Comments
Kirk Cameron, former child star and current subscriber to an apparently particularly uneducated brand of evangelical Christianity, is shocked and appalled that when he makes public statements on a nationally-televised talk show about homosexuality (and thus, the people who are homosexual) being “unnatural” and detrimental to civilization, there are a large number of people who […]
Lopsided Cat Would Like to Welcome You to Whatever’s 7,000th Post
Posted on March 7, 2012 34 Comments
“Hello, you talking monkey things. I have been informed that we have arrived at the occasion of the 7,000th entry on Whatever, and that as is custom with you incomprehensible monkey things, this occasion must be marked with some special event. So here is the special event. First, I will sleep. Then I will doze. […]
He’s Not Winning, He’s Just Not Losing
Posted on March 7, 2012 104 Comments
Super Tuesday come and gone and Romney is doing what Romney apparently does, which is gather to delegates to himself in the least impressive way possible. It takes a special presidential candidate to outspend his main rival four to one in Ohio and yet win the state with only a 1% margin — correction, it […]
The Big Idea: E.C. Myers
Posted on March 7, 2012 16 Comments
Fair Coin, the debut novel is from E.C. Myers, is about wishes, and the complications that come from getting your wishes granted. This is interestingly coincidental for me because just the other day I was talking to my daughter about “The Monkey’s Paw,” the short story in which one’s wishes are granted… badly. I was […]
Red Planet, Red Ledger
Posted on March 7, 2012
Disney is hoping John Carter will be a monster hit, but to do that, the film has another monster to slay: A two-decade-long terrible track record of films with Mars or Martians as a primary plot point. I break it all down in this week’s FilmCritic.com column, naming the Martian flops of yore, complete with […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying