Lou Aguilar
“You won’t believe it. We’ve checked and double checked. Colonel, the message is, ‘Mars needs women.’” — From the pre-credits sequence of Mars Needs Women In my last article here, I called for real men to quit pussyfooting around and…
Where have all the good men gone and where are all the gods? … I need a hero I’m holding out for a hero till the end of the night He’s gotta be strong and he’s gotta be fast And…
I finally got around to seeing Oppenheimer, and it made me melancholic about the current state of cinema. My capsule review is that it’s an intelligent, ambitious, impressively atmospheric, and exceptionally acted picture, with one of the most suspenseful (even…
Much of what is wrong with the Catholic Church can be deduced from last Sunday’s Gospel, Matthew 16:13-20, describing the divine foundation of the Church. Jesus asks his Apostles whom they say He is. Simon Peter correctly answers, “You are…
Just under a year ago, I broke up with my long-distance girlfriend, or more accurately, she broke up with me. “Mindy” (not her real name) is a top LA tax attorney (divorced), me a Miami-based writer. Our reunion in Washington…
It takes a long time to turn around a large ship — sometimes fatally long — as were five minutes aboard the RMS Titanic on the night of April 10, 1912. Her lookout Frederick Fleet spotted the deadly iceberg at…
I was relieved last week that the editors of this fine magazine didn’t assign me to review Barbie. Because then I would have had to see it. And there are some stories too horrible for even a veteran Culture War…
August is usually a limbo month, and this year is on par. The news is an unwatchable bore, wavering from charges against Trump to possible charges against Biden, to the latest premature polls, to moronic attacks on DeSantis as a…
Elon Musk let me down. I doubt this would much bother him while running the world’s biggest seller of electric vehicles, building rockets to Mars, maintaining a $300 billion fortune, and saving freedom of speech, for which I named him…
