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Movie Reviews: Detroit
Detroitdirected by Kathyrn BigelowThe 1967 Detroit riot or rebellion started less than a mile from where I would later grow up. In separate incidents during this time both of my parents were shot at by...
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HBO Game of Thrones Recap: The Spoils of War
Well that was pretty good. Or as my brother said, this show should win awards for this episode alone if nothing else. It was a little higher on action than normal, but the story also moved forward with...
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Trans Community, Consent and Scapegoating
Recently a comedian named Lil Duval appeared on a radio show and made a clearly hyberbolic/comedic threat of violence against any transperson who tricked him into sex/intimacy. There was an immediate...
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EMU Football Poster
Sometimes ideas are better in the concept phase then they are in the execution and delivery phase. It happens. No big deal. You can't necessarily figure out ahead of time how everyone will react and...
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Book Reviews: Someone is Bleeding
Someone is Bleedingby Richard MathesonThis is Richard Matheson's earliest story. It is very different from his sci-fi or horror work. It's a short story that I read in the "Noir" collection. I'm not...
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Michigan Trump Supporter, Foreigners and Housing Discrimination
The libertarian or traditionalist conservative would say that this is a white man's country that a man ought to have the right to do as he pleases with his own property. Although that is indeed an...
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Movie Reviews: Hacksaw Ridge
Hacksaw Ridgedirected by Mel GibsonMel Gibson may hold ugly opinions or beliefs that you don't like. He may occasionally make even uglier statements when he is drunk or upset. But since I don't know...
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Michigan Apples
Depending on which survey you happen to believe Michigan is consistently the state with the second or third largest crop of apples each year. The crop is coming soon. I like apples but even more than...
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President Trump. Kim Jong Un, North Korea and Nuclear War
As you may have noticed President Trump and North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un have been trading insults and threats over the past few weeks about just how bad they're going to curb stomp the other...
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HBO Game of Thrones Recap: Eastwatch
Ok we're back. And in a development that should surprise absolutely no one both Bronn and Jaime are still alive. Bronn pulls Jaime out of the lake. Perhaps because he's a knight now or perhaps because...
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Charlottesville
An umbrella grouping of right wingers, including but not limited to college Republicans, neo-Nazis, Alt-Right supporters, neo-Confederates, white nationalists, and others descended on the University of...
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Monuments of White Supremacy
According to President Trump:"Many of those people were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. So, this week, it's Robert E. Lee. I notice that Stonewall Jackson is coming...
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Movie Reviews: The Dark Tower
The Dark Towerdirected by Nikolaj ArcelThis film is based on Stephen King's The Dark Tower series. It takes bits and pieces from multiple books in that series. King has alternately described the series...
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HBO Game of Thrones Recap: Beyond The Wall
Some important things happened in this episode, the penultimate. Traditionally the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones has been when some "Holy F***" moments took place. That happened I guess but it...
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Man Saves Owl
Humans can cause a lot of problems for animals, deliberately and otherwise. But humans can and do save animals' lives, even when there is no direct benefit to doing so. There was a recent example of...
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Trump Supporters
As we have discussed previously I do not think that every last single person who voted for Donald Trump as President is a snarling Neanderthal racist. Although it is tempting to think so sometimes, if...
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Movie Reviews: 68 Kill, Alien:Covenant
68 Killdirected by Trent HaagaViolent indie movie with great acting and obvious yet important messageYou should know two things about this low budget award winning independent film. Firstly, it is a...
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HBO Game of Thrones Recap: The Dragon and The Wolf Season Seven Finale
Well I thought that was a good finale to a show that has felt rushed this year. The show runners closed down some plot lines in a satisfying manner. And in this finale some of the actors got to stretch...
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Book Reviews: Monster Hunter Vendetta
Monster Hunter Vendettaby Larry CorreiaThis is book two in Correia's Monster Hunter series. To recap, just about everything that goes bump in the night is real. The government pays mercenaries or...
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Salt Lake Police Arrest Nurse and Drag Her From Hospital
I'm not a lawyer. And I don't keep up with all of the ways in which the Federal government and various states and municipalities, often with winks and nods from the current Supreme Court, attempt to...
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