That would be stupid. Yet some newscasters seemed to say it, and this columnist appears to believe it, though since she’s really just using that as a hook to argue for feeding kids, we’ll give her some slack. What it did was strike down a badly written law, in which a State tries to...
There is a big discussion going on about whether the Pope should be held responsible for a certain pedophile priest. Apparently the (not-pope-at-the-time) knew something, had some administrative responsibility, and took some kind of action. I don’t think we really know what he knew, when he knew it, or whether what he did constitutes...
Fox ran a “movie” called Virtuality tonight. Produced by Ronald Moore, the genius who crafted Battlestar Galactica, I thought it would be worth a look. It skitters dangerously close to rehashing things that have been done well already, but there is a core of original thought going on here. In fact, if things evolve...
What good is building a classy brand if you can’t whore it out for big bucks? Clothing manufacturers do it, chefs add their names to canned soups. Why not Imax? The latest controversy is that “Imax” movies are being shown on relatively small screens, for full price. The Imax experience used to mean one...
Once again, a beauty pageant model is brought to task for “bad behavior” and nude photos. This time, the woman is Carrie Prejean, a Miss California, and target of Perez Hilton. The photos exist, but we’ll probably never see them, because she was 17 when they were taken. Big deal. I’m going back and...
Steeped in both cold war paranoia and 50s-style scientist-hero myth, this could have been done as a Twilight Zone episode.
Once again I’ve got “Give me back my little fish” stuck in my head. I’m not sure that’s the actual lyric, but it doesn’t matter. You know it, the McDonald’s fish song. Long John Silver tried to bust out with a new series of commercials that pretty much attack the McDonald’s Fillet O’ Fish...
Religion as genre
Just because I don’t attend church doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate religions. I like religions. I like spirituality, and for most people the best place to find that is in church. (or equivalent). What I don’t like is the “one true” mentality. The Bible clearly says that God wants everyone to make it. (see...
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