His Dark Materials author Phillip Pullman rips into C.S. Lewis. (Via LinkMachineGo.) Pullman’s got a point, but to my mind his trilogy grew a lot more ponderous and a lot less fun once the whole Republic of Heaven angle became the central thrust of the story (somewhere in the first third of The Subtle Knife.)
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Getting Warmer…
The Bush administration gets closer to admitting human agency in global warming, even if Dubya himself had trouble getting through the “report put out by the bureaucracy.”
Justice is blind.
Harry gets his hands on the teaser poster for Daredevil.
Making Sensenbrenner.
A key Republican comes out against the Ashcroft revisions to the FBI.
It’s not the years, honey, it’s the mileage.
After a decade of rumors and half-starts, Harrison Ford will finally don the fedora again for Indy 4, with Spielberg directing and Frank Darabont writing (from a story by, um, George Lucas). The movie’s currently due July 2005, a month after Episode III.
Straight Talk Excess.
The men who would be McCain in 2004, according to Slate.
Follow the money 2003.
Speaking of the man in question, special-interest PACS look to carve their niche after McCain-Feingold. Alas, according to this report, they’ll still do quite swimmingly.
Woohoo!…mmm, ugh.
Senegal upsets France in the opening morning of the World Cup and New Jersey defeated Boston in the NBA…Nevertheless, for all the early underdog wins, the Lakers victory kinda took the edge off the evening (and the Avalanche…what happened to them?) Ah, well – Sacramento still has the floor in Game 7. All I know is getting up at 7am for the Cup opener was rough. And tomorrow’s game is at 5…
How much is Justice, again?
According to CNN, the Supreme Court currently includes five millionaires, the richest two being Clinton appointees (Ginsberg, Breyer), and the poorest those of Reagan/Bush, Sr. (Thomas, Kennedy.) Just goes to show, wealth doesn’t always correlate with wrongheadedness.
Backstreet’s back…in space?
Speaking of which, Backstreet Boy Lance Bass has medical clearance to be the third tourist in space, at a price of $14-20 million. Y’know, if I was in a boy band, I’d spend my money exactly the same way. Update: N’SYNC…Bass is in N’Sync. My bad, y’all.