Sometimes I think these blog posts could be marked with a Siskel & Ebert -style ‘thumbs up, thumbs down’ system, where so often I’m merely indicating my approval or disapproval of what some pundit or other is saying in the mainstream press. If we did have that system in place, I’d be marking this [...]
The Anglican church is in trouble. The church, which has 80 million members worldwide, has become increasingly liberal and thus increasingly diverse. Its members believe a wide variety of things, and ultimately it’s spelling disaster for the denomination. I began to wonder why the synchronizing of beliefs seems to be linked so [...]
Well as you can see below, I’ve started using Twitter. “About time,” some people have said. What can I say? Now you’ll always know what I’m up to, thinking about or doing on the radio by looking at my ‘tweets’ on the lefthand sidebar here at John-Wright.Net (it also updates my Facebook [...]
So, by way of update: in this little post I asked whether the hype over the new Batman movie was really deserved, and in particular whether the applause for Heath Ledger’s performance as the Joker was merited or whether it was colored by the fact that he’s six feet under.
About an hour ago, Stephen [...]
As regular readers will know, I have a huge problem with the TV Licence Fee in the UK, which forces all TV-watchers in the UK to pay the salaries and operations of the BBC; which, as I’ve long said, is merely one broadcaster among many in the UK broadcasting market. The argument most often [...]
“Assessing the significance of the film’s adult themes is trickier. In a way Stanton’s insistence that his film is not political makes it more worrying. If he had made a heavy-handed film with a crude propaganda message it could be easily dismissed. But Stanton seems to have simply picked up on the prevailing spirit of [...]
Love Brendan O’Neill. This article is nothing short of a straight home run against Moonbeam George Monbiot, a columnist in the Guardian with whom we’ve taken much issue in the past on this very blog (john-wright.net search term ‘Monbiot‘). By analyzing Monbiot’s past, we understand his present, and it’s quite an amusing picture. [...]
Wanted
Good, and with Angelina Jolie to boot. My current computer desktop picture (or ‘wallpaper’ for you poor Windows users) is a still from this movie featuring the back of a wet, topless Angelina replete with some great ink. The subject is interesting: a fraternity of assassins recruits a normal, boring guy with a [...]
Traditional rock climbing = a challenge. Stone Nudes = flat-out magnificent. No ropes, no gear, no clothes. Naked fingers and feet grasp cold, hard rock, and the result is spectacular, aesthetic and dramatic.
“”This kind of climbing is the sport at its purest, and is intended to inspire and celebrate the human form.’ [...]
Okay, so I’m finally getting to this, after a few days off the radar.
Amy Payne, a student at Brigham Young University (which is owned by the Mormon church and attended primarily by its members from around the nation), felt compelled to reply to my assertion in the LA Times that viewing porn is “normal”. [...]
Rotten Tomatoes is spiking at an unusually high 91 percent rating for The Dark Knight.
But how much of all this is bullshit, generated by the hype surrounding the fact that a dead guy is starring as the Joker? I know it isn’t very reverent to say so, but I didn’t know Heath [...]
Once again, Penn Says it as well as I could. Penn Jillette is proving to be a libertarian after my own heart; I agree with him almost always, and - more importantly - I agree with him for the same reasons almost always (that is a dedication to libertarian principles). I went to [...]
Yikes! The readers of the LA Times opinion section are ruthlessly tearing apart Amy Payne’s Blowback “rebutting” my article on porn; maybe I don’t even have to respond myself?! In response to her article Porn isn’t normal, commenter “HaHaHA” says:
“Amy Payne a 20 yr old Morman student knows what is normal?”
I’ll get to [...]
Another response to my critique of the case against Kozinski in the LA Times Blowback section was published HERE today. “Porn isn’t normal: rebutting John Stagliano and John Wright” is an anti-porn article, which I’m happy to respond to (even though defending porn, per se, wasn’t the intent of my original piece).
Well, response forthcoming.
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