The 5 O’Clock Club: Dead to the last man

The 5 o’clock club is published Wednesday to Saturday during the season, and aims to provide a forum for reader-driven discussion at a time of day when there isn’t much NFL news being published. Feel free to introduce topics that interest you in the comments below.

Hollywood

There is a movie that I have watched dozens of times because it plays repeatedly on one of the half-dozen or so English-language channels I get on cable here in Thailand; it’s called The Last Samurai. It’s not the greatest movie of all time, but it has its moments.

One of my favorite parts of the movie is a story told by Captain Algren (played by Tom Cuise). He tells the story in two parts, the first part being given prior…