Recent content by Politesse

Psycho is more "iconic" than "great", if you ask me! But you should give "Vertigo" or "Rear Window" a watch some time, if you enjoyed "Shadow of a Doubt".

Because AFI are movie buffs! The Wizard of Oz changed the way movies were produced. Before it there were few hits produced in technicolor. After it there were few hits NOT produced in color. It revolutionized the use of visuals and especially visual effects to tell a story rather than as a mere...

I can think of nothing more irrelevant than asking whether Christianity "caused Nazism" or "caused Hitler". No one thing "causes" an entire historical era or a complex social institution, and even if one somehow isolated such a "cause", it would only lead you to the next unsolveable question of...

Then you lack both historical education and reading comprehension. Hitler was the head of an explicitly theocratic state, that both created and endorsed a Christian denomination. If that is not "really" Christian, what would be? I really don't care what the aristocracy privately thinks, or says...

Your perspective is unconnected to Hitler's actual public position on Christianity, and his policies concerning Christian vs non-Christian faiths. To wit, exile for Christian minorities, and violent eradication for Judaism. His staff advanced a Christian theological school of his own, positives...

If "despising" Christianity does not stop you from publically endorsing Christianity and declaring it a state religion, investing millions of dollars and extinguishing hundreds of thousands of lives executing the projects of the Christian church, ruthlessly persecuting all other faiths than...

I keep meaning to watch all of Scorcese's movies, just so I can say I have, but they aren't my schtick.

Generalizing about a vast group as though the actions of a few of their number represented the whole is the mainstay of bigotry and it is always transparent as hell. You should not be so proud of your scorn for reason.

Yeah, but there is no such thing as the "alt right", that's a Woke conspiracy. Everyone is a "liberal" these days. Or if you really need to be specific, a "classical liberal". Don't call them neoliberals though, they hate that too.

Do you approve of the work of the California Victim Compensation Board? What about CalVIP?

It's almost though it really doesn't matter that much who the mayor is, because she or he always answers to developers and the city council they appoint, not the other way around. But that can't be right, because we all know mayors, governors, and presidents are magical supermen responsible for...

Generally speaking, they do. Thie correlating effect is extreme for the elite schools, but present at all schools.The same factors that produce good SAT scores - money and a lot of free time, mostly - also lend themselves toward academic success. Elite schools tend to have extreme standards...

Is... anyone interested in a view from the other side of the podium? I definitely see this issue as being far more complicated than the Atlantic article implies, and not in a way that falls neatly along political lines. There are many abuses of the accomodations system, and everyone who teaches...

Code for, they haven't got a suspect. They are blasting the local social media with requests to anyone in the public who knows anything, and it really makes you wonder about people if no one ever comes forward. But that is the most common outcome to such pleas.

Sounds like an average student submission to me...