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Is the US Just Talking Itself Into a Recession?

Weekly wrap-ups return with this rundown of the Writers’ strike, a new release of Blade Runner, a new X-Men movie, and the return of Lost and Psych on the horizon.

In today’s article, I discuss a review of …and philosophy books by John Shelton Lawrence in the Nov/Dec 2007 edition of Philosophy Now.

Maeve Livingtone is dead. She was killed by the ruthless Grahame Coats who is now living off of the Livigtone’s money on a small Caribbean island. But Maeve doesn’t want to join her long deceased husband by passing over into the afterlife, she wants to hang around as a ghost.

Its been a busy time around here as visiting grandparents and other family activities have taken precedence over blogging. But I’m back to regular writing now and have several essay style pieces in the works.

Its a big question: Will there be a season 2 of the FX Network’s legal drama Damages? We’re about 3 episodes till the finale and, while I love the show, I have my doubts on whether the show will be around after that.

I was recently looking through the latest Rolling Stone (Issue 1034) and came across two bits of information - both of them involving Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder - that caught my attention.

Pearl Jam played at Lollapalooza in Chicago at the beginning of last month. Evidently, AT&T was broadcasting the show from its Blue Room web [...]

The television show Jericho (CBS) tells the story of a small Kansas town after a series of terrorist attacks leave the US in a state of disaster. The pilot first aired on September 20, 2006, and the season one finale on May 9, 2007. After CBS decided to cancel the series (due to viewer drop-off [...]

Bill Clinton ushered in a new era of mediated politics to the U.S. presidency. William Jefferson Clinton, at the beginning of his presidency, was the new face of the boomer generation. He brought 60’s welfare politics together with an attempt at protecting all those pensions and 401k out there. His presidency ended on an unbelievable [...]

It seems to me that we’ve misnamed these two genres. Comic books are much more important in the grand scheme of things while reality television is an inaccurate description.