Shhh! It's a gallery of World War II posters emphasizing the importance of silence for
Posted in Movies
You know that presidential campaigns bring out the worst in people, and this was true in 1944. Witness the pro-FDR film "Hell-Bent for
Posted in Mental Debris
So Osama bin Laden is dead at last. Maybe. Probably. It's been fewer than 12 hours since I saw the news, but here are my thoughts and impressions so
We present the latest in a seemingly endless series of excellent internet links that you must see. It is a moral
Posted in Books
It’s hard to imagine, especially for those of my generation or younger, but broadcast news was not always a wasteland of vacuous celebrity gossip, shallow political “analysis”, or
Posted in TV & Radio
So hey, I’m a little late on this review. I know that seems inexcusable since it is the season premiere, but my damn DVR didn’t record this when it was supposed to. And if it’s
Posted in Listcruft
As with the first two entries, the premise of this is simple. I just used the Random Article link on Wikipedia and saw if anything good came up. (a lot of it is quite useless) The town of
Posted in Advertising, Retrotisements
One of the trippiest vintage commercials you'll ever see was this late 1950s entry from Skippy Peanut