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Derik Schneider
- METV: ‘Can you tell the difference between Alfred Hitchcock and Rod Serling?’
- NFL Fan Talk: ‘History of The Franchise: San Diego Chargers’
- New York Magazine: Jonathan Chait- ‘The Still-Vital Case for Liberalism in a Radical Age’
- Marxist Socialist: British TV Show- Talking About Socialists and Socialism
- The Final 24: Nicole Brown Simpson
- CBS News: ‘President Trump Has Fired National Security Adviser John Bolton’
- Biographics: Hunter S. Thompson- ‘Gonzo Extraordinaire’
- New York Magazine: Opinion- Ed Kilgore: ‘George McGovern Didn’t Lose in 1972 by Going Too Far Left. Neither Will 2020 Democrats’
- Buffalo Wing Media Bias: Adam Carolla- ‘On Hypocrites From The Hollywood Left’
- 20th Century Fox: Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid 1969- Paul Newman & Robert Redford Are Butch & Sundance
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Ederik Schneider
- TCM: The Candidate (1972) Natalie Wood’s Cameo
- Smithsonian Channel: ‘Malcolm X’s Fiery Speech Addressing Police Brutality’
- Liberty Pen: Thomas Sowell- ‘How To Cure Marxism’
- The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson: Kevin Pollak- ‘Does Woody Allen, William Shatner, and Columbo on Carson Tonight Show (10/19/1988)’
- Storm: Dallas- Barbara Eden Guess-Stars: Michelle’s Sweet Revenge
- The Atlantic: Opinion- Olgan Khazan: ‘ Why It Was Easier to Be Skinny in the 1980s’
- Big Think: Penn Jillette- ‘On Libertarianism, Taxes, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Weed’
- Tom Woods: ‘Ep. 1470 Vince Vaughn on Hollywood, Libertarianism, and American Politics’
- MGM: The Big Knife 1955- Starring Jack Palance & Ida Lupino
- The Atlantic: Amanda Mull- ‘The Rise of Coffee Shaming’: About Damn Time!
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Fred Schneider
- Religion & Politics: Benjamin E. Zeller- ‘The Cult of Trump? What Cult Rhetoric Actually Reveals’
- Real Time With Bill Maher: ‘Monologue: Live Free or Die Hard’
- NFL Films: NFL Films Presents- Billy Sims: ‘The Forgotten Legend’
- NFL Films: Don Meredith: ‘The Original Dallas Cowboy’
- Classic Film & TV Cafe: The 10th Victim 1965- ‘Clip with Ursula Andress and Marcello Mastroianni’
- Last Week Tonight: John Oliver- The Filibuster
- The Film Archives: Politics & Prose- Daniel Oppenheimer: ‘Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century’
- The Film Archives: Douglas Charles; J. Edgar Hoover’s War on Gays
- Charisma on Command: ‘How To Have Fun Without Drinking’
- Real Time With Bill Maher: ‘Government By Mad Leftists’
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Kire Schneider
- Politics and Prose: Sarah Huritz- Interviewing Meredith Fineman: ‘Brag Better’
- Deep Hauz: George Carlin- ‘Racism’
- Go-Bengals Dot Com: ‘Bengals 1988 Yearbook’
- NFL Films: Ken Anderson- ‘Top 10 Players Not in The Hall of Fame’
- Jason Galavo: George Carlin- ‘Pissing Off The Feminists’
- TED Talks: Mara Pavula- ‘ If You Think Politics is a Circus, Think Again’
- David Hoffman: ‘1960s Conservative Describes An America Many See Today’
- TED: Joseph G. Levitt- ‘How Craving Attention Makes You Less Creative’
- HBO: George Carlin- Death Penalty
- The Beacon: Ben Wilterdink- ‘How to Talk to Millennials About Socialism’
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Rik Schneider
- Ask Phillip Williams: Larry Garfield- Other People’s Money (1991) ‘Failure to Innovate, Obsolescence’
- CNN: Veronica Stacqualursi- ‘Former GOP Candidate Carly Fiorina Says She’s Vote For Joe Biden’
- The Daily Signal: Kay C. James- ‘Why Conservatives Should Be Leading the Civil Rights Movement’
- The Film Archives: Q&A With Brian Lamb- U.S. Senator Tom Coburn: ‘A Bold Plan to Stop Washington from Bankrupting America’
- Andy Snowslayer: Magnum Force 1973- ‘Excuse Me Captain: Can You Fly’: Clint Eastwood Stars
- Carlos Esnaola: Thunderball 1965- ‘Official Trailer’: Starring James Bond and Claudine Auger
- Dan Mitchell: ‘Bernie Sanders Humor’
- Dan Mitchell: ‘Communism Humor’
- Dan Mitchell: ‘Socialism Humor’
- KrisAnne Hall: ‘From Socialist To Constitutionalist – My Story’
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Erik Schneider
- The Dick Cavett Show: ‘The Best of Carl Reiner Guest Hosting’
- Willy Beable: Diana Dors Documentary
- The Dick Cavett Show: ‘Hugh Hefner Clashes With Feminists’
- The New Yorker: Douglas Watt- ‘The Glittering, Corrosive Humor of Lenny Bruce’
- The Dick Cavett Show: Raquel Welch- ‘Discuses Myra Breckinridge & Homosexual Audiences’
- Skeptic Magazine: Michael Shermer- Interviewing Anthony Kronman: ‘The Assault on American Excellence’
- Classic Film & TV Cafe: The Notorious Landlady 1962- ‘Scene with Jack Lemmon and Kim Novak’
- Skeptic Magazine: Michael Shermer- Interviewing Dr. Donald Hoffman: ‘The Case Against Reality’
- ATHENAISM: ‘Why Is John F. Kennedy so Popular?’
- Evan Carmichael: ‘John F. Kennedy’s Top 10 Rules For Success’
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Recent Posts: The Daily Review
The Rubin Report: Dave Rubin- Interviewing Nick Di Paolo: ‘On Offensive Comedy and Political Correctness’
Source:The Daily Review “Nick Di Paolo (stand up comedian) joins Dave to discuss his comedy career, his problem with political correctness and so many stand up comics today, why he believes comedians should be at the forefront of speech and free expression, and more.” From The Rubin Report I think the great comedian Mel Brooks had […]
Amelia Nell & Vocalocity: Rita Hayworth as Gilda- Best Moments
Source:The Daily Review “The exquisitely beautiful Rita Hayworth was divine in her most famous role as Gilda (1946).” From Amelia Nell Gilda, is a very good if not great movie that is sort of a great soap opera or dramatic comedy that has everything from mystery, to crime drama, to comedy even. But if you take […]
Politico Magazine: Derek Robertson- ‘How Howard Schultz Created a Personality Cult at Starbucks’
Source:The Daily Review “Ever since former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced his potential independent presidential bid, the feedback has been … mixed, to be generous. Democrats denounced him as a misguided election spoiler at best, and an entitled egomaniac at worst. Schultz hasn’t done much to dispel those characterizations, with a string of defensive statements […]
AZ Quotes: Bill Parcells- ‘This Is Why You Lift All Them Weights, This is Why You Do All That’
Source:The Daily Review “Pro Football Hall of Fame head coach & front office executive Bill Parcells comes in at #7 on the list of Top 10 Mic’d Up Guys of All Time.” From NFL Films As someone who grew up just outside Washington in Bethesda, Maryland and still live there, I grew up a Redskins fan […]
Politics and Prose: Dr. Eric Motley- Interviewing Elaine Pagels: ‘Why Religion’
Source:The Daily Review “Elaine Pagels discusses her book, “Why Religion?”, at Politics and Prose on 11/30/18. When Pagels, author of groundbreaking studies of the Gnostic Gospels, was asked, “Why religion?” she found that her own life illuminates both why she’s made a career of studying religious texts as well as why religion itself still exists […]
The Atlantic: Nora Johnson- ‘Sex and The 1960s College Girl’
Source:The Daily Review “Men…admit that what really irritates them about modern women is that they can’t, or won’t, give themselves completely to men,” Nora Johnson wrote in her 1959 Atlantic article, “Sex and the College Girl.” “This is undoubtedly true … And this, God knows, is a good thing.” In the article, which is excerpted […]
Lana Turner Online: MGM Presents Lana Turner- 1948
Source:The Daily Review “MGM presents Lana Turner – 1948. Lana Turner Online” From Lana Turner Online When think of Hollywood Babydoll Lana Turner, ( which is exactly what she was ) I think of the Queen of the Hollywood Soap Stars. Meaning, her only real experience in soap operas, was being on Falcon Crest in the 1980s, […]
Newsweek: Katie Couric- Sarah Palin’s: Five Biggest Gaffes
Source:The Daily Review Similar to Michele Bachmann who said things like America should be less socialist like China, ( an actual Michele Bachmann quote ) it’s hard to pick the five biggest gaffes that Sarah Palin has ever given. To use a sports analogy, she really is the classic case of not ready for prime […]
Sony Pictures Entertainment: The Frontrunner 2018- Hugh Jackman as Senator Gary Hart
Source:The Daily Review I saw The Frontrunner not this Saturday, but the previous Saturday in Silver Spring, Maryland because I wanted to see it obviously, ( no, I was kidnapped and forced to watch it ) but because of the subject matter. I was 11 years old and in the 5th grade in Bethesda, Maryland […]
Claudia Christian: On Making It In Hollywood
Source:The Daily Review “Who is Claudia Christian? An American actress, writer, singer, musician, and director, best known for her role as Commander Susan Ivanova on the science fiction television series Babylon 5.” From Quote Tank Not all actors and actresses, but a lot of them and apparently Claudia Christian is a perfect example of this, but […]
Tag Archives: Realism
Skeptic Magazine: Michael Shermer- Interviewing Dr. Donald Hoffman: ‘The Case Against Reality’
Source:The New Democrat “In his new book, The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth From Our Eyes, the U.C. Irvine cognitive scientist Dr. Donald Hoffman challenges the leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective … Continue reading
Rob Logan: George Carlin- On Soft Langauge
Source:The New Democrat “One of my favorite George Carlin bits in which he describes the sterilization of the American language. From the 1990 special Doin’ it Again.” Source:Rob Logan: George Carlin- On Soft Langauge This is one thing that I … Continue reading
Foundation Interviews: George Carlin- On Why It’s Important To Not Care At All
Source: The New Democrat Would like to hear more from George Carlin on why he believes it’s not important to give a shit ( as he put it ) because that can be interpreted in multiple ways which is exactly … Continue reading
Inside Edition: Ali Rosen- Legendary Chef and Traveler Anthony Bourdain Dies At 61: The Man Who Saw and Lived The World
Source: The New Democrat When I first heard about Anthony Bourdain’s show Parts Unknown coming to CNN in 2013 or 14, I thought this was another one of those so-called reality TV shows where the lead character is some loudmouth … Continue reading
Skeptic Magazine: Rachel Bloom- How Rachel Bloom Became a Card-Carrying Skeptic
Source: This piece was originally posted at The Daily Review I believe anyone who is a realist and just doesn’t call themselves a realist because they have some need to have people believed they’re smarter and more advanced than they really … Continue reading
Teddy Roosevelt: Make The Best of Things in Life
Source: This piece was originally posted at The New Democrat I’m not a big fan at least of the Tremors genre, series of Tremors movies from the 1990s with people like Kevin Bacon, Michael Gross, Fred Ward, and others. But the … Continue reading
The American Conservative: Opinion: Tom Switzer- Dean of the Realists
Source: This piece was originally posted at The New Democrat: The American Conservative: Opinion: Tom Switzer- Dean of the Realists This might strange and even harsh, but the end of the Cold War was bad for the Republican Party and … Continue reading
HBO: The Newsroom- The Idealist vs. The Realist: News vs. Opinion
“Key scene in Episode 1 of HBO’s ‘Newsroom’, in which there ensues a heated argument between Will McAvoy, the anchor and star of the newscast, and his new Executive Producer, MacKenzie McHale. This argument essentially poses the question ‘what is … Continue reading
