HBO Game of Thrones Season Seven Trailer (2)
Well another day another HBO Game of Thrones Season Seven trailer. Like the one before it this one appears to be designed to give away precisely nothing while increasing speculation. There are, or...
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Movie Reviews: Escape Plan
Escape Plandirected by Mikael HafstromThis 2013 release was a solid action movie that was, strangely enough, the first to feature eighties action film icons Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger...
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Illegal Immigration and Discrimination against Black American Men
With Donald Trump's election there has been a sharp shift in interior and border enforcement against unlawfully resident foreign nationals (illegal immigrants). Per Trump's directives, most of the...
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Trump Launches Over 50 Tomahawk Missiles Into Syria
BREAKING NEWS: WASHINGTON — President Trump ordered a cruise missile strike against Syria early Friday local time in retaliation for the chemical weapons attack that killed 86 people on Tuesday,...
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Book Reviews: Say Nothing
Say Nothingby Brad ParksIt is fascinating that by browsing in a bookstore you can find books that you never would have found online. That's the biggest reason why I still patronize bookstores. You can...
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Santa Monica PTA and Equality
I thought that this story coming out of Santa Monica was interesting because it obliquely and not so obliquely touches on a lot of the fault lines of modern life-race, class, gender, citizenship...
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My Office Hours Are From Nine To Five
In the movie The Five Heartbeats there is a classic scene in which the singer Bird, disturbed by some irregularities with his royalty payment amount and frequency, confronts the cheerful record label...
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Book Reviews: The Phantom Tollbooth
The Phantom Tollboothby Norton JusterThe Phantom Tollbooth was one of my favorite children's books. A few months back I reread it to see if the story held up to a more jaundiced eye. It did. I believe...
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Mr. Trump Goes To Washington
You may recall that the issues that won Donald Trump the Republican nomination and ultimately the Presidency were things that more or less had simplicity and economic nationalism in common. Trump wove...
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Bill O'Reilly Fired From Fox News
Apparently because of a combination of spousal pressure, bad publicity, and advertising losses Fox News owners Rupert Murdoch and his sons Lachlan and James decided to let go of long time employee and...
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Movie Reviews: The Birth of a Nation
The Birth of a Nationdirected by Nate ParkerI try to handle it without violence being involved/But sometimes that's the only way these problems are solvedWell run Red run because he's got your gun/And...
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Everyone Has The Right to Free Speech!!
I've written on this before but it's an issue which is worth revisiting. The University of California at Berkeley, which is a public university, has earned a reputation as ground zero for battles over...
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Michigan Doctors Charged with FGM
Every culture and religion has slight to extreme different ideas about right and wrong. In most cases these differences of opinion are minor. People avoid discussing them. Or if the subject can't be...
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Trump Tax Plan Is Giveaway To Fat Cats
President Trump recently revealed a summary of his preferred tax plan. It is something that is as many people said, unserious. Of course that description depends on your perspective. The plan was...
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Movie Reviews: Sleepless
Sleeplessdirected by Baran Bo OdarThis is a crime thriller movie which despite a talented and energetic cast suffers from some languid direction and a couple lazy stereotypes. Movies with black leads...
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Clinton and the 2016 Election Redux
Clearly former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton hasn't gotten over losing the election to Donald Trump. There's nothing wrong with that I guess. I'd be...
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Texas Cop Kills Black Child
You might ask yourself why some white cops are so quick to use deadly force against unarmed Black men and boys. You then might ask yourself how long it would take the cops to arrest a non-police...
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Stephen King Dark Tower Trailer
Stephen King's The Dark Tower series has been made into a film which opens on August 4. The trailer looks interesting. I have not read the whole series which inspired this film. I understand that the...
View ArticleBabies Eating Lemons For First Time
This is a pretty clear example of why it's remarkable that any kids ever trust adults. People say that when life gives you lemons make lemonade. I say why would someone you trust give you a lemon to...
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Book Reviews: Carter & Lovecraft
Carter & LovecraftBy Jonathan HowardThis story is miles apart from some of Howard's earlier work reviewed here. It doesn't have quite the same sheen of sarcastic humor laid over everything. That...
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