Osborne Ink » Saturday Afternoon TV

You Can’t Take It With You

Matt Osborne — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:00:30 +0000

With all the renewed attention to issues of income inequality in America, I have decided to pluck some classic films for Saturday Afternoon TV. Here is Frank Capra’s take on the financial industry and the 0.01%. Made in 1938, You Can’t Take It With You was adapted from the Pulitzer prizewinning play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, and should be considered a kind of prequel to It’s a Wonderful Life, which also starred Gary Cooper and was produced in 1946.

The Tribal Mind

Matt Osborne — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:00:13 +0000

Gwynne Dyer’s excellent 1994 documentary series The Human Race: A Species at the Crossroads continues.

Gods of our Fathers

Matt Osborne — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:00:44 +0000

Gwynne Dyer’s excellent 1994 documentary series The Human Race: A Species at the Crossroads continues.

Escaping From History

Matt Osborne — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:00:54 +0000

Gwynne Dyer’s excellent 1994 documentary series The Human Race: A Species at the Crossroads continues.

The Bomb Under the World

Matt Osborne — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:00:21 +0000

Gwynne Dyer’s surprising documentary on patriarchy, militarism, and feminism starts this excellent 1994 documentary series, The Human Race: A Species at the Crossroads.

War: the Lethal Custom Part 4

Matt Osborne — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:00:11 +0000

Episode Four, The Deadly Game of Nations

War: the Lethal Custom Part 3

Matt Osborne — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:00:20 +0000

Episode Three, The Profession of Arms

War: the Lethal Custom Part 2

Matt Osborne — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:00:04 +0000

Episode Two, Anybody’s Son Will Do

War: the Lethal Custom Part 1

Matt Osborne — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:00:28 +0000

Episode One, The Road to Total War

Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy

Matt Osborne — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:00:56 +0000

At Netroots Nation 2010, a lone blogger set out to ask attendees of the largest conference of online activists and bloggers in the world whether their organizations had ever taken a check from George Soros. “The left” turns out to be not much of a conspiracy…in fact, it’s a community. Reuploaded to youTube because Veoh sucketh. My apologies for the embarrassingly-bad editing; I’ve improved a little bit since this was made. Showing today in honor of Roseanne — yes, that Roseanne.