If we"re going to bail out an entire industry, how about drive-in movie theaters? Fewer than 400 remain in America and they all need roughly $100,000 each to switch over to digital because the studios are phasing out the 35mm format. To rescue all those drive-ins would cost around $40 million. Obama spent more than that on advertising buys last month alone. Unfortunately, drive-in theaters live in the real world, and when something no longer makes economic sense, it dies. As consumers, moviegoers have had it so good, it's enough to make a libertarian blush. I can go to Amazon.com right ...
Ever hang out with an old dude? They’re pretty great. They’re not self-obsessed the way boomers are. They’re not “over it” the way Generation X is, and they’re not completely tuned-out ...
In a recent column for the Charleston City Paper, I explained how my moniker, the "Southern Avenger," came from my advocating for states" rights and even secession in my early 20s, a ...
One student newspaper contributor got it right when she said it looked as if “Satan himself had come to address the crowd.” Over one hundred leftists showed up to ...
What did I learn from 8.5 years of graduate school in Creative Writing and English? Apart from useful stuff like how to structure a commercial screenplay, I realized that ...
On July 3 the New York Times published a feature article by Patricia Cohen bearing the provocative title "The"60s Begin to Fade as Liberal Professors Retire." It ...
I’ve written elsewhere about the gut-wrenching smugness of Stanley Fish, who after having spent a career destroying the study of the humanities at major American ...
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