Category: Overrated

Ned Bitters This week’s inductee into the “Overrated Hall of Fame” is … sports movies. This weekend I experienced the very rare sensation of enjoying a sports movie. The Wrestler, starring the formerly handsome and now stunningly strange-looking Mickey Rourke, is as close to Rocky as any sports …

Ned Bitters This week’s inductee into the “Overrated Hall of Fame” is … victims’ families’ sense of entitlement. This December, a police video surfaced of the latter stages of Timothy McVeigh’s arrest shortly after he felled the Murrow Building in Oklahoma City. It was pretty boring stuff as …

Ned Bitters This week’s inductee into the “Overrated Hall of Fame” is … public, tangible displays of grief for total strangers. They recently found the body of that three-year-old Florida girl that had gone missing. You know, the one whose mother waited a month before reporting her missing. …

Ned Bitters This week’s inductee into the “Overrated Hall of Fame” is … George Bailey’s lending practices (and the vilification of Ebenezer Scrooge). At least one good thing might come out of the economy going straight down the shitter. Maybe the sappy lot of bleeding heart Americans who …

Ned Bitters This week’s inductee into the “Overrated Hall of Fame” is … more Christmas Songs. That’s right, Uncle Ebenezer Grinch is back to rip the feel-good spirit out of another batch of Christmas dreck. The next time you’re in your car and you hear one of these …