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An amusing but slight adaptation of a Nick Hornby novel which can laugh at its characters without precluding the possibility that they may laugh at themselves Did Mr Rogers s extraordinary capacity for love end up producing a generation of haters? A delightful and not entirely politically correct movie about growing up as a Catholic schoolgirl in 2002-2003 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Reviewed February 22, 2018) An occasionally amusing parable of guilt and forgiveness whose setting in small-town America, like the prejudices of its author, does it no favors The Blob has won, wrote a despondent correspondent of the (London) Sunday Telegraph the other day. That s the end of our dreams of a new, dynamic, independent country. He was referring to the departure of Dominic Cummings, a close adviser of the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, who was widely understood to be the latter s point man in efforts to reform what is sometimes called in Britain (as it is here), the deep state. There, it is also called the blob, a term coined by Michael Gove, one of Mr Johnson s cabinet colleagues, to describe the recalcitrant education bureaucracy in that country when he was education secretary.Obama foreign policy adviser Ben Rhodes referred to America s interventionist defense and foreign policy establishment as the blob, but I think we should apply it to the whole of our own deep state, which President Trump likes to call the Swamp, and which, for the last four years, has preferred to style itself as the Resistance. Swamp, Resistance or Blob, the American version also believes it has won with the apparent election of Joe Biden.I don t know if you remember the 1958 film called The Blob which gave a young Steve McQueen his first starring role but it was set in the Philadelphia area, which also appears to have played a role in the newest revival of the blob. The original one didn t win, however, but was stopped by CO2 fire extinguishers, frozen solid and dropped by parachute into the Arctic where it was expected to remain immobilized, if not dead, for as long as the Arctic stays cold. FullEntry Before there was Howard Kurtz’s Media Madness, there was mine — now, alas, out of print but still available while supplies last for the cost of shipping and handling. Send $5.99 to me in care of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1730 M Street, Suite 910, Washington, D.C. 20036 Also available, now in paperback and Kindle version, is Honor, A History, which was first published in 2006. A study of Western cultural artifacts, from the epics of Homer to the movies and TV shows of today, it is focused on explaining why Western ideas of honor developed so differently from those elsewhere — and especially from the savage honor cultures of the Islamic world. The book then goes on to trace the collapse and ultimate rejection of the old Western honor culture from World War I until the present day and to suggest the conditions that would have to prevail for its revival. Recent Articles The Madness of the Media as They Consider Trump. September 19, 2020. On a proposed new addition to the catalogue of mental infirmities which has not yet made it into the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders -- FromThe Epoch Timesof September 19, 2020... FullArticle Experts can never be wrong for, if they were wrong, they wouldn t be experts. They would be Donald Trump. From The New Criterion of May, 2020... FullArticle Imagine the media s frustration: they keep canceling President Trump, but he just won t stay canceled From The New Criterion of April, 2020... FullArticle

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The writings of James Bowman — mainly film reviews from his eleven years as movie critic of The American Spectator and the media columns he writes every month for The New Criterion. The site also includes a special section devoted to his major work in progress, a book about honor, and what happened to the idea of “honor” in the 20th century, on which readers are invited to comment.

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