• Indie film (untitled) a lesson in fun for right 
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"(Untitled)" isn't a conservative film in any narrowly doctrinaire sense of the word. It isn't a Randian broadside against "the looters" trying to implement socialized medicine. It isn't a rousing war epic in the vein of "300" or "The Longest Day." It isn't a terrible parody film that takes cheap shots against easy targets such as Michael Moore. Instead, "(Untitled)" goes after postmodernism — specifically, postmodern art.      View blog reactions

• • Lights, camera, reaction 
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Atlas Shrugged  | On Thor Halvorssen and his Moving Picture Institute, which promotes individualist politics in Hollywood.
"He's sort of [like] John Galt," [24 actor Steve] Schub says of Halvorssen, referring to the Ayn Rand character from Atlas Shrugged. "I think he's doing a pretty good job of getting us to out ourselves [politically], to come out and work together." Schub is an example of the diversity of ideologies Halvorssen is hoping to reach. His Ayn Rand allusion is no coincidence: He described himself as a "radical Objectivist" ("conservatives can be as much of a threat to free speech as liberals can").      View blog reactions

•Thank you for dying 
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Review of Boomsday, a novel by Christopher Buckley.
"Boomsday's" America is crippled by stagflation, caused in no small part by entitlement programs for our senior citizens who, thanks to the miracles of modern medicine, are living far longer than ever before. Into this morass swoops the young Cass Devine, an Ayn Rand-reading member of Generation Whatever who uses the tools she grew up with (and the tricks she picked up in the field of public relations) to fight the mounting indignities being heaped upon her age cohort.      View blog reactions