U.S.

Swampland

Clinton's Turn

Her questioning of Gen. Petraeus was impressive; without grandstanding, she fufilled her oversight role and made some soberly effective points about the failures of the surge and the problems with an unlimited U.S. commitment in Iraq. Read more

Real Clear Politics

The PM Line

Al Sadr is offering another carrot...Meanwhile, that Olympic Torch is having some trouble getting from point A to point B. Read more

World

The Middle East Blog

Boots on the Ground

Remember those cluster bombs in southern Lebanon that have killed 40 people and wounded 252 others since the END of the war in 2006? Many of them were made in the USA. Read more

The China Blog

Homer and Me: An Odyssey

At the risk of turning this into the TIME: China and Self-Congratulations Blog, I am compelled to announce that I have reached a journalistic milestone: my head being morphed into Homer Simpson. Read more

Business & Technology

The Curious Capitalist

The First Starbucks Recession

CEO Howard Schultz attributes the company's first-ever U.S. sales slump to an American consumer "under tremendous pressure." Read more

Work in Progress

I'm the Turkey in This Sandwich

Sometimes life just squeezes you from all sides. On the one there's the impending birth of my second child, bearing down on me (no pun) (okay, pun) from a rapidly decreasing number of weeks away. Read more

Nerd World

The Last Scene of "Fanboys"

As John Williams' classic closing credits theme plays, the lights go up in George Lucas' private screening room. Our heroes have done it. The fanboys have seen "The Phantom Menace." Read more

Entertainment

Tuned In

Idol Gives Back Gives Back

This week's edition of American Idol will attempt to raise consciousness about, and propose solutions to, one of the most tragic problems afflicting our planet: that there are not enough hours of Idol already programmed on Fox. Read more

Looking Around

Priapism

Or whatever you call it when the urge to put up very tall buildings won't go down. Now a Saudi prince is proposing one a mile high for Jeddah. Take that, Burj Dubai. Read more

Photos

White House Photo Blog

A young Republican listens as John McCain speaks to local media at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah.View more

Honestly, who can't look at a movie trailer and make a split second decision whether or not it is something they will pay money to watch?

• - Posted by Keith on Tuned In in response to James Poniewozik's "Thumbs Down for Pro Movie Critics?"