The Critical Drinker: Snow White – It’s Even Worse Than I Expected
The Critical Drink watched the new Snow White movie so that we don’t have to. Even ignoring the woke for a moment, it sounds like it has various story and technical problems.
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The Men’s Rights Movement: Changing The Cultural Narrative
The 2024 Ipsos survey answers the question of “Have we gone so far in promoting women’s equality that we are discriminating against men?” The graph below provides the result of interviewing a total of 24,269 adults, from the countries of Japan, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, U.S.A., Argentina, Belgium, Chile, …
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To be, or not be “that guy”
Some years ago I was dining at a fast food restaurant in downtown Houston. While I was placing my order at the counter, the young man taking the order appeared to be distracted. He wasn’t looking at me or his touch-screen; rather, he was looking at something going on behind me. I didn’t bother to …
Two Feminist Fallacies
The crosshairs fallacy springs from a childish belief that the vital force of the non-feminist revolution concentrates in a point source — for example, a certain community of websites
Have you seen Zoe McLellan?
As of January 2025 a warrant is outstanding for the arrest of Zoe McLellan in relation to charges of kidnapping, child stealing and child custody deprivation. McLellan is a public figure who has appeared in numerous popular television shows including Star Trek: Voyager, JAG, NCIS: New Orleans and Designated Survivor. Her face is familiar to …
The Ptolemys – a soap opera
Almost everyone has heard of Cleopatra and Marc Antony. They fought against Octavian for control of what would soon be the Roman Empire after the death of Julius Caesar. They lost to Octavian. Shakespeare wrote a play about it. But there is so much more to the story. Cleopatra was a descendent of Ptolemy I, …
The Tale of Thomas and Mary Reibey
Thomas was an officer on His Majesty’s ship Britannia. Mary was a horse thief. Thomas was a 19 year old junior officer when in 1794 he proposed to 17 year old Mary. Thomas was serving in the employ of the British East India Company at the time and Mary was under a seven year sentence …
That’s Amore! – The First Latin Lover
Cecil B. DeMille is often credited with shooting the first feature-length film (The Squaw Man) in Hollywood in 1914. Thanks to DeMille, D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, John Ford and other names now familiar only to cinephiles, movies (and scandals!) became a fixture in American life by the 1920s, and low-rent nickelodeons gave way to movie …
