Le Chevalier d’Eon is a fantasy/horror/occult anime series ostensibly based on the life of a real character. Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d’Éon de Beaumont was a member of le Secret du Roi, a back-door diplomatic initiative carried out by Louis XV, who could not trust his own ministers to carry out his policies (because they were a bunch […]

The indictment of Gov. Blagojevich has folks wondering if Illinois indeed is as corrupt as its mythographers would have us believe. So the New York Times commissioned a study on which states have the most corruption, and why. And despite the best efforts of Philip Danforth Armour, Carter Harrison, the Richards Daley, Cyrus McCormick, George […]

How did Detroit get into this mess? Why is publishing such a disaster? Why don’t people make good movies anymore? Why does television suck?Tina Brown tells you.” . . . it would be marginally consoling if the pink slips were going to those who contributed so vigorously to their companies’ accelerating demise—the feckless zombies at […]

Or, Who watches the watchmen? (Note how I am cleverly getting you to read a financial article by making you think it’s about the upcoming Watchmen film.)A few weeks ago I recommended an article by Michael Lewis about the meltdown, and who knew it was coming, and who profited by knowing. One of the heroes […]