ith respect to reviews of War Inc., John Cusack’s film of a year ago, few reviewers seem to get it, including the film critics on Pasadena’s KCRW and, oddly, the satirical journal, The Onion.
Carina Chocano gets it. Ms. Chocano in her Los Angeles Times review understands that War Inc. is a satire, not a comedy, [...]

Reader Dr. Daniel Gavaldón responds to the posting on puns. He quotes:

Hanging is too good for man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted… -Fred Allen
We generally agree with Mr. Fred Allen, yet I would add “…a man who makes bad puns.” Chronic users of bad puns ought to [...]

e are getting used to receiving all sorts of diversions from friends and fellow workers by their emailings over the Internet these days. Many of these diversions come in the form of word play or puns. Although an analysis of humor is scarcely funny, let’s take a deeper look at the various structures that [...]

Recently, Presidents Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy of the United States and France respectively appeared to ogle* a young women quite publicly, quite indiscreetly. Ogling may be acceptable in some countries, particularly as done by eligible young men (or women, these days), but at the G-8 conference currently being held in Italy, it [...]

ann Wenner on the Charlie Rose interview program commented on the late, provocative (gonzo journalist*) Hunter S. Thompson’s death by suicide. Wenner, publisher of Rolling Stone magazine and producer of an oral biography of Thompson, spoke thoughtfully on the profound subject of suicide which also intrigued the 16th Century writer Michel de Montaigne.
A little [...]