When I tell my friends that America needs a Queen, they just laugh at me.
They know I’m a long time student of politics and history; they know that Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin are my personal heroes, and that I crave liberty and freedom above all else…
So they assume I’m joking when I say “restore the monarchy.” But I really mean it.

Great game or greatest game? No, really. I think you will be hard pressed to find someone who starts playing this game and wants to stop.

Thomas Paine was perhaps the original American progressive. He wrote in support of minority rights, incremental taxs, social security, public education, minimum wage, union rights, and even tuition vouchers. And they hated him for it.

Inception stars an ensemble cast of actors at the top of their game populating the dream of Christopher Nolan, maybe the most reliably good film maker in Hollywood right now.

A memorial day remembrance.

Sam Rockwell stars in Duncan Jones’s Moon, a sci-fi story more in line with classical sci-fi novels than the typical special effects summer blockbuster.

Forum regular feethinker returns with his third story for us. Sometimes the best parents are the most unconventional.

Iron Man 2 picks up where the first movie left off, sacrificing a little of the strength of the first for a little bit of new shine and an expanded but underused gallery of characters jammed into the same sized package. Nevertheless, its hard to walk away feeling less than pleased.

Bogsource member freethinker returns with his second guest piece for our blog. The subject is education.

Bogsource member freethinker provides us with an interesting and entertaining anecdote about moving all sorts of things.