Blowhard, Esq. writes:

• Nearly every paragraph of this John McWhorter essay on Antiracism, the prevailing American faith, is quotable.
• Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals thinks the criminal justice system is tilted in favor of prosecutors and the government.
• How John McCain has covered up information about POWs left behind in Vietnam.
• Should a disagreement on Twitter constitute criminal harassment? (Answer: No, of course not, what kind of stupid question is that.)
• This dude thinks guns can never be well designed b/c guns kill people and killing people is of course never ever justified and killing is bad bad bad.
• Another designer who’s full of shit.
• The oldest movie theater in Manhattan has been slated for “development,” ie demolition. Here’s its proposed replacement.
• Oh look, another glass and steel box is coming to NYC.
• The BBC lists the 100 greatest American films. Only one by Lubitsch, nothing by Fritz Lang, and nothing by John Huston, but THE DARK KNIGHT, 12 YEARS A SLAVE, and CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS all make it.
• CineFix lists the 10 most beautiful looking movies ever made. Only three of them from before 1970. I guess no one made beautiful looking movies before then.
• The way Internet movie geek culture has become a slave to Hollywood marketing and PR probably deserves its own post.
• How to trick your friends into thinking you have your shit together.
• To brighten your day, here’s a picture of Marlene Dietrich reading the paper.