Steve Berman

A failure to communicate is a Donloe shame The lesson of "Cool Hand Luke" taught good and hard. One of my favorite movie scenes is the one where the Captain, having administered some physical punishment to Cool Hand Luke, gives this little speech. “What w... See more

Venezuela, a Just Cause all over again? For decades, the U.S. watched Venezuela’s national catastrophe with interest but at a distance. Trump got in its face. On January 3, 1990, the president of a sovereign foreign nation, under indictment in the U.S. on... See more

Don't play dice with chatbots, play dice with God 2025 pulled back a lot of curtains to reveal the meta data behind Today’s challenge was for ChatGPT to update my daily RUSH Atlanta show counter using the album cover for “Roll the Bones” as inspiration. I... See more

I'm becoming Jew neurotic about killings If you're a Jew, you know what I mean. Who the hell would want to stab Rob Reiner and his wife Michele to death? Why would this happen? There’s plenty of reasons, I suppose. Rich, famous Hollywood types at their ho... See more

Let the pouncing commence: I am enjoying Ken Burns Revolutionary War documentary anyway Ken Burns trolls the right with an Iroquois Nation intro to Revolutionary War documentary The first 10 minutes of Ken Burns new PBS documentary—a six-part, 12 hour ser... See more