http://www.udolpho.com/Unexpected error: Opinion not found...defaulting to most recently used opinions.en-ushttp://www.udolpho.com/weblog/?id=01349&title=The-AvengersThe Avengers smashed some box office records. But why? I can't get over how ridiculous those outfits look. This is the number one movie of all time? Jeremy Renner looks like a suburban dad...St. Aubert2012-05-10T10:23:00-06:00http://www.udolpho.com/weblog/?id=01348&title=Sweet-Smell-of-Success-Paranoia-in-the-50s-part-2Where Kiss Me Deadly hinted at the hangover from McCarthyism, Sweet Smell of Success openly addresses the culture of paranoia and excess of which McCarthyism was an exponent. Released two years after...St. Aubert2012-05-06T11:25:00-06:00http://www.udolpho.com/weblog/?id=01347&title=The-Dystopian-Kitsch-of-Hunger-GamesThe hallmark of the fake dystopia is that it wants to let its audience eat cake. It wants to indulge them with fake feelings and manipulated pity (and piety), feed them melodramatic moments that...St. Aubert2012-04-24T11:15:00-06:00http://www.udolpho.com/weblog/?id=01346&title=The-JQThe list of things we can say about anything is getting smaller and smaller. That's the result of our experiment in equality and diversity, which force us into stiffer, more regulated expressions...St. Aubert2012-04-18T21:43:00-06:00http://www.udolpho.com/weblog/?id=01345&title=Mens-rightsIt seems semi-controversial on the right to say this, but I have a very low opinion of the "men's rights" movement. I am well-acquainted with the inequities of family law, but men's rights has much of...St. Aubert2012-04-14T22:36:00-06:00http://www.udolpho.com/weblog/?id=01344&title=A-note-to-readers-of-National-ReviewRich Lowry writes: Needless to say, no one at National Review shares Derb?s appalling view of what parents supposedly should tell their kids about blacks in this instantly notorious piece...St. Aubert2012-04-07T10:40:00-06:00http://www.udolpho.com/weblog/?id=01342&title=Media-framing-and-gay-suicide-reduxNow that the Dharun Ravi "gay bullying" trial has reached its ignominious conclusion, it's time to recall that: Tyler Clementi did not commit suicide because of a dorm room prank, but because he...St. Aubert2012-03-16T13:34:00-06:00http://www.udolpho.com/weblog/?id=01341&title=John-Stossels-Illegal-EverythingA link to John Stossel's Fox program "Illegal Everything" prompted some discussion recently about Stossel's brand of libertarian political critique. Stossel's reverse muckracking seems like a typical...St. Aubert2012-02-27T16:35:00-06:00http://www.udolpho.com/weblog/?id=01340&title=Sobbing-about-SOPAIn general, the anti-SOPA arguments are meritless fear-mongering, and the results they predict either could not come true for practical reasons (surely once the bill is passed nerds will immediately...St. Aubert2012-01-18T13:16:00-06:00http://www.udolpho.com/weblog/?id=01339&title=Kiss-Me-Deadly-Paranoia-in-the-1950s-part-1Kiss Me Deadly begins with Cloris Leachman's orgasmic panting as she runs along a highway clad only in a trenchcoat. Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) swerves onto the shoulder to avoid her, testily tells...St. Aubert2012-01-06T14:25:00-06:00