John Hayward

Presented for your approval: an Old Spice ad right out of the Twilight Zone.  It’s stirred up a lot of online support, criticism, mockery, and WTF-ness, which means “mission accomplished” for the advertiser. I can’t help looking at something like

Having destroyed the American health insurance industry, leaving thousands of people uncertain of whether they actually have valid health insurance or not, President Obama jetted off to a luxurious extended Christmas vacation in Hawaii.  You might think the “optics” couldn’t

I’m a huge fan of the first three “Paranormal Activity” films – even Number 3, which was a prequel, and I usually dislike those.  It’s impressive how these movies avoided the usual curse of horror film series: the loss of

One of the most disturbing things about Barack Obama’s reign of lawless executive power is that it has people fantasizing about outright totalitarian dictatorship, and not in a faculty-lounge-B.S. kind of way.  We’ve always had to put up with the

In response to Obama Admin Urges Supreme Court To Reject Contraception Mandate Exemption For Catholic Nuns: I can’t say any of this is surprising.  There are matters of political perception at stake here, and Obama’s swarm of bureaucratic munchkins is

Now that the crew of global warming alarmists that got stuck in Antarctic ice has been rescued (by a fossil-fuel-burning, carbon-spewing helicopter!) we can really settle in and make fun of them, especially since the mainstream media still largely refuses

In response to NYT to Obama: Stop Vilification of Edward Snowden: Maybe it was inevitable we would watch our hybrid news media/pop culture/political engine choke on Edward Snowden.  He’s got to be either a Hero or a Villain, and while

2013 was the Year of the Zombie in entertainment media, from one of the most phenomenally successful series on television, “The Walking Dead,” to the unexpectedly huge box office of “World War Z” – at one point a train wreck

In response to Curb Your Obamacare Enthusiasm: I’m still astounded that the media is willing to sit back and take these wild figures from Administration that has repeatedly been caught lying about ObamaCare, and which also continues to claim their

In response to Even Democrat Adam Schiff Doesn’t Buy NYT’s Benghazi Story: I’ve seen a good deal of head-scratching about this portion of the big New York Times story.  The paper seems to have taken the word of a few

Ben Stiller’s remake of the Danny Kaye classic is one of the strangest movies I’ve seen lately.  A little under halfway through its running time, it simply stops being “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” and becomes an entirely different

In response to Less than 13K Sign Up for Nevada Health Exchange: I notice the Administration is claiming that it finally got a million enrollments nationwide – which, if true, would still be a horrific failure.  That’s not even a

There are plenty of just plain bad movies out there.  Some of them are quite entertaining in their own way.  For a movie to be disappointing, you’ve got to go in with high expectations – better yet, high hopes for

We now have two equally potent court rulings about NSA meta-surveillance on the books.  Unfortunately, they’re complete and total opposites of each other, drawing exactly the opposite conclusions from very similar arguments.  In D.C., Judge Richard Leon said the controversial

In response to Guess What? There’s No Plan B If ObamaCare Falls Apart: This is yet another reason Obama’s frequent comparisons between his health-care disaster and a troubled private sector product rollout – to cite his favorite example, Apple launching

I didn’t catch either of them in theaters, but last summer brought two conceptually similar apocalyptic comedies, “This is the End” and “The World’s End.”  The former is a nihilistic raunch-fest from the Judd Apatow crew whose highlights are the

In response to Five Great Things About ‘Man of Steel’: I liked “Man of Steel” quite a bit, as well.  Like you, I was pleased to see Superman returning from the hellish oblivion of “Superman Returns,” one of the most

Last week, I reflected on how strange it was for Barack Obama to delay signing up for ObamaCare, to the point where his refusal to do so had become impossible for the media to ignore.  The matter came up with

Did you know the 50th anniversary of the Disney classic “Mary Poppins” is rapidly approaching?  The Disney corporation certainly does.  Thus we have “Saving Mr. Banks,” a heavily fictionalized – and, yes, Disneyfied – version of the film’s production, and

I’ve been saying since Friday that I thought someone at the A&E network was actively out to get the Robertson family and shut “Duck Dynasty” down.  Maybe it’s an internal power play at the network, a couple of executives enforcing

Fox News brings tragic word that Claire Davis, the 17-year-old Arapahoe High School student shot in the head at point-blank range by shotgun-wielding Karl Pierson, died on Saturday afternoon. “It is with heavy hearts that we share that at 4:29

George Will considers the concept of “executive discretion,” and President Obama’s abuse of it, arriving at the conclusion that our government has grown to the point that strict adherence to the rule of law is effectively impossible – a condition

Here’s a refresher of the amazing Jean Claude Van Damme Volvo ad in which he does a split between two moving trucks, accomplished with no special effects trickery: Fellow martial arts icon Chuck Norris responds with a Christmas greeting that

In response to Conservatives in a Panic Over Pajamazilla? Not Exactly: Like most other people who have encountered this insanely stupid column, I had my biggest laugh when Serwer declared Pajama Boy the “emblem of an increasingly non-white electorate.”  You