Guess what guys, it’s election day. And just so you know, if you didn’t vote, America reserves the right to trade you to China and/or India for some first-round draft picks to compensate for the loss of Steve Jobs. Fortunately, I early voted on Saturday, so not only did I beat all the lines you

In the HBO film, “Game Change,” about the choice of Sarah Palin during the 2008 campaign, the point is made that while the decision to pick Sarah Palin for Vice-President energized the campaign, the decision was made haphazardly in a way that ultimately hurt the campaign, and American politics in general. I don’t know if

“Regrets are mistakes that memories make.” – Misheard Lyrics In My Head of Adele’s Someone Like You So, what is the point of all this? Well, the problem of memory and public culture here is that we’re remembering what we’re already living in, like a sad Alzheimer’s patient. We’re just stumbling around trying to find

One of the great debates that “The Love of Money” and “Too Big To Fail” bring up is whether or not bailing out the banks was a good idea, or a bad idea. Would the economy have been better served if Lehman Brothers had been saved, or was it a right decision to let the

Movies are an important part of our life. Because of their easy-to-understand language, they’re consumed on a mass-level, and because they engage us, they stay with us. Because of that, film plays an extremely important part in the public memory of an event. I know a lot more about the Titanic disaster than the Oklahoma