German Cinema Struggles With Its Own ‘N-Word’ Taboo

“The big surprise last week during the Berlin Film Festival was a disastrous premiere for a long-awaited feature film, Jud Süß – Rise and Fall … Another film that takes even more outrageous liberties with Nazi history, moreover – Inglourious Basterds, by Quentin Tarantino – has been praised far and wide by German critics. The main difference appears to be that one film has an American director, while the other is German.”

Does Higher IQ Correlate With Godless Liberalism?

“More intelligent people are statistically significantly more likely to exhibit social values and religious and political preferences that are novel to the human species in evolutionary history. Specifically, liberalism and atheism, and for men (but not women), preference for sexual exclusivity correlate with higher intelligence, a new study finds.”

Robert B. Parker, As Remembered By His ‘Dainty’ Son

“[W]hen I was a teenager and decided that I wanted to dance, I asked him if we could go, for the first time, to a ballet performance. … My father, at that moment in a cut-off sweatshirt covered with muffin crumbs, bacon grease, Flintstones Jelly and beer stains replied without dropping a beat–‘Yeah, I’d like to see something by Twyla Tharp, I understand she’s quite innovative’.”