Mixed things

Looking at a new book that blames the hippies for the most catastrophic American foreign policy decade since 1805-1815, Kevin Drum predicts we will be seeing lots of stab in the back propaganda in the next few years.

You can almost smell the stink of desperation from the pro-war crowd. The next couple of years is going to be a nonstop frenzy of books, articles, TV shows, op-eds, radio segments, blog posts, and white papers about how everyone except George Bush and his enablers were responsible for our catastrophe in the Middle East. Anyone will do, as long as it's not them.

Please do not let it be so.

Pop Matters has a series of articles on the DVDs every movie lover should own. This 70s list is spot on. It includes Chinatown, Dolemite AND Female Trouble. That's my kind of list.

Combining the bummer tone of the first item with the film theme of the second, do you know what Orson Welles' final film was? The answer will lead to tears in your beer.

Pop Songs 07 discusses one of my favorite REM songs, Untitled (and unlisted!) off Green.