The Sound of the Crowd

Recommended Reading about which I have few witty remarks to make

  1. As I remember it, in the Mad magazine satire of The Dukes of Hazzard back in the day, they wrote of Catherine Bach that “she wasn’t a good enough actress for features, so they put her in shorts.” Nice to see some things never change.

  1. A provocative little question.

  1. Mediamatters makes a good point about those memos.

  1. Jay Leno: Lefty?

  1. Long but excellent article in Salon about recent right-wing film festival.


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