Podcast Reaction: Aliens! Edition

This week on the podcast, Watson didn’t do the assigned reading.  If he did that in my class, we’d move on without him and he’d fail another of life’s little tests.

Man, that was really, really mean.

Let’s talk about aliens.

The Entertainment Industry To Nitpickers: Historical Accuracy Is For Chumps!

Awards season.  A prominent director releases a movie that garners some Oscar nominations.  Controversy arises among some, though.  The movie is based on the life of a man many Americans think of as a hero, but who in his own time has proven to be somewhat controversial.  It seems some have found the movie has taken a few liberties with past events, and since said past events are based on real, living people, this is a cause for concern among some people.

I am speaking, of course, of Steven Spielberg’s 2012 movie Lincoln.