Many years ago, right after the film Swingers came out-starring and written by Jon Favreau-I went to an event for budding indie film producers that featured a panel with Favreau. The final Q&A question for him was “What advice do you give to aspiring filmmakers?” His answer: “Read The Fountainhead.” Now, of course, Favreau is not [...]

These video are from the time of the shooting, before the case blew up and became the politicized mess it’s become. They are both significant to the facts of what happened that led to the tragedy. The first video shows a news report from the day after the shooting where an eyewitness says Zimmerman, on [...]

Allow me to burst your bubble. We’ve all heard stories on the news and in speeches from every politician in every party about the struggles faced by the middle classe. Politicians follow up with how thier proposals will create jobs and rebuild the middle class. They want to bring back the past. This isn’t going to [...]

One of the reasons the Paula Deen freakout bothers me so much is that I think it’s important that America gets real about race. I believe that we can’t really move forward as a country until we move forward talking about black / white race relations especially. What Paula Deen said thirty years ago isn’t [...]