Q. What's the upside/downside of digital libraries? If reading is an anti-social act, what does it matter if it's on a screen (a computer or a "Kindle" device) or on paper? Are books and bits complementing or conflicting?
- Q. Does enforcing law as a civilian always make you a criminal? When the body that makes the law refuses to enforce? Watson's motives and methods are troublesome if not problematic. How is he different from fundamentalists? U.N. enforcers of WMD resolutions?
Q. If the purpose of profiling is to find criminals, what's the danger if it's inaccurate? In some disciplines, half-right is as bad as completely-wrong. Does that apply here?
- “Pushing Daisies.”
- Nancy Franklin
- Q. Is television a good medium for complex narrative? If it's free can it be good? What's the purpose of serial network television? Its value? Are there any good zingers in this review?
Q. Is fairness a quantifiable measure? Or is it a game, as the economists believe? Does a strike have value?
- The Player Kings
- Claudia Roth Pierpont
- Welles and Olivier take on Shakespeare.
Q. A movie made into a musical again. Has Mel Brooks gone to the well one time too many? Should we wait for the movie version? Or just rent the original? Why do the horses whinny at the mention of "Frau Blucher"?
Q. Do we really have too much media information? Or is there too much "data" to sift to find information? Is this Denby's point or does he mean something else?
