I love a good evisceration.

Though I wasn’t actually planning on seeing the movie, so Lileks hasn’t actually saved me any time and money. Just entertained me.

His Majesty: “So the Oz movie was successful in seeing that you were entertained, after all?”

So says a recent article. Duh.

But the Man Bites Dog aspect of this story is that it is a liberal who is admitting it, and he has powerful examples. His essay is ostensibly about politics, but it is really about culture: a culture of virtue and family which entertains itself with stories that preach the breaking of homes and the glory of sin. That culture finds itself more and more in the embrace of broken homes and sin, and less what it was. (more…)

No, really. (more…)