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The author discusses the relevance of commentators in the world of sports, entertainment and politics.

Rates cars based on a short model run, good styling, peculiar cultural context, or other unrecognized merit. Includes the 1960-82 Checker, the 1974-75 AMC Matador, and the 1975 Chrysler Cordoba.

The article presents Alternative Oscars awards whose aim is to ridicule the movies. They include Best Comeback for Mickey Rourke in Sin City, Best No-Holds-Barred Comic Performances by Women in Guy-Dominated Films: Isla Fisher, Wedding Crashers, and Leslie Mann, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and Best Movie Nobody Saw Because It Looked So Unbelievably Lame: Sky High.

Observes that the dominant American ideology may now be victimism which implies that nobody is personally responsible for the living of a life. Life's defeats, disappointments, and failures are believed to be the fault of someone else; Example of chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell as a man who refused to become a victim.

An interview with U.S. actor Sam Rockwell is presented. Rockwell admits that he had played lead roles in independent films that nobody has seen. He stresses the importance of rituals and structure as actors age. Rockwell recalls that he got into a vehicle accident that left his fingers crushed, requiring reconstruction.

The article offers information on hotel bars. Hotel bars offer not a place where everybody knows your name but a place where nobody does. All hotel bars at their core present the possibility of a chance encounter with a stranger that secretly fuels all travel. The hotel bar is the ad hoc meeting place for the sales team in Memphis,Tennessee.