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Harvey Weinstein Accusations
Harvey Weinstein is a famed award winning Hollywood film and television producer and distributor. He has produced and/or distributed such movies as Pulp Fiction, Shakespeare in Love, Good Will Hunting,...
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Columbus Day
1492. The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent...
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Movie Reviews: Killing Gunther
Killing Guntherdirected by Taran KillamThis film was a mixed bag. It tried to be This is Spinal Tap for hitmen but didn't make it.Killing Gunther is Killam's directorial debut. Killam is a SNL veteran....
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Detroit CPL holder practices Self-Defense
I don't have much to say about this incident. On Detroit's east side one man armed with a gun tried to rob another man. The would be victim was legally armed and defended himself, shooting the robber...
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Book Reviews: The Whistler
The Whistlerby John GrishamI usually like a lot of Grisham's work. Like many other former lawyers or legal experts who have become thriller or mystery authors he is able to build excitement around oft...
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Mice on the Menu at the Fortune Buffet
Let's say that you are sitting down to eat at your favorite restaurant. Just as you are preparing to consume your preferred meal, the one that is only really done right at this place, you notice mice...
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I thought this was humorous. It's probably more humorous if you have seen the new IT movie or spent even a little time listening to Trump counselor/spokeswoman KellyAnne Conway spew contradictory...
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Music Reviews: None Of Us Are Free
None of Us Are Free is a song written by Brenda Russell along with the famed Brill building husband wife songwriting team of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. If I didn't know better I would have thought...
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Call Of The Wild: What Makes Dogs and Wolves Different
I love dogs. I am a dog person. I love the idea of wolves. I love wolf iconography, whether it be the rock band Los Lobos, the blues giant Howlin Wolf, Stephen King's fiercely protective if somewhat...
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Movie Reviews: Wish Upon, The House
Wish Upondirected by John LeonettiThe good thing about this bland horror film is that it generally avoids jump cuts. That's unusual these days. There are deaths. It's unusual to make a horror movie...
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Trump Tax Plan
President Donald Trump and his team of economic advisers recently released their plan for tax "reform". You can read some of the highlights here. On September 27, 2017, the Trump administration...
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Fats Domino Passes Away
Fats Domino was a founding father of rock-n-roll. He passed away at 89. My brother always joked that a lot of the classic rock-n-roll and R&B songs out of New Orleans all sounded the same. I would...
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Kiki Alonso Hit on Joe Flacco
It seems as if Thursday night football is almost unwatchable. I don't know why the NFL insists on having Thursday night games anyway. It doesn't seem fair to the players involved to have a short week...
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Book Reviews: Hard Magic
Hard Magicby Larry CorreiaI enjoyed this book. I think I enjoyed it more because it was written in the third person. Therefore it wasn't really a given, as most first person narrated books tend to be,...
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Music Reviews: Wild Little Girl
You may remember Debra Devi from the interview she previously did here. Now the author, former magazine editor and self taught Jersey City based professional singer-songwriter-guitarist has released a...
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Red Wedding Pakistan Style
You tried so hard to kill me, woman it just was not my time.You put poison in my coffee, instead of milk or cream.You put poison in my coffee, instead of milk or cream.You bout the evilest woman, that...
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General John Kelly and The Confederacy
I want you to imagine any US general or politician saying that Nazi Gestapo/SD head Reinhard Heydrich, a prime architect of the Holocaust, was "a principled man and skilled violinist who gave up a...
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Roy Moore Child Abuse Allegations
It would be ideal if we all could soberly and objectively judge allegations based on evidence and how truthful we think the accuser and accused are being. That's difficult to do even in a court of law....
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Book Reviews: Titus Andronicus
Titus Andronicusby William ShakespeareSex and gore that would make Tarantino squeamishYou can make an argument that there is very little that is new under the sun. Shakespeare's play Titus Andronicus...
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Movie Reviews: Micmacs, The Lords of Salem
Micmacsdirected by Jean-Pierre JeunetMicmacs is a French film. Jean-Pierre Jeunet also directed Amelie, reviewed here. English subtitles are available. I haven't heard or spoken French in a very long...
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