Entries Tagged as 'History'
Brad Pitt recently talked to German magazine Stern about his historically laugable film Basterds:
World War II could still deliver more stories and films, but I believe that Quentin Tarantino put a cover on that pot. With ‘Basterds‘, everything that can be said to this genre has been said. The film destroys every symbol. [...]
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Tags: Cleaning up the Litterbox · History · Obnoxious People · Silly Moments · Utter Stupidity
Did you know there are people who doubt the existence of nuclear bombs? Revisionists believe Hiroshima and Nagasaki never happened, films of nuclear explosions are doctored, and there has never been any nuclear weapons …. hmmm but they don’t say anything about nuclear power plants. A few even go so far as to doubt atoms [...]
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Tags: Gods of sarcasm · History · Illiterate · Obnoxious People · Rants · Utter Stupidity
I was wandering the Internet looking for funny things to write about and found an interesting bitlet. Remember Tonya Harding? Think real hard… think U.S. figure skating … think assault on an opponent … yea her. I found this on her website:
For good, for bad, depending on your point of view, Tonya Harding has been [...]
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Tags: Curiosities · History
April 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905
Peggy Noonan, Republican speechwriter and pundit, made this statement on the weekend concerning the Obama administration’s release of torture documents:
“Some things in life need to be mysterious,” “Sometimes you need to just keep walking. … It’s [...]
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Tags: History · Law and order · Politics · Rants · Terrorism · War