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Movie Reviews: Creed
Creeddirected by Ryan CooglerI suppose you could call this Rocky 7 or Rocky The Next Generation. It's a continuation of the Rocky story as well as a spin off of that series and beginning of a new...
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Movie Reviews: Game Night
Game Nightdirected by John Daley and Jonathan GoldsteinThis black comedy is in some ways an extended riff on some classic Three Stooges comedy routines (mostly lacking the slapstick) in which the...
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Woman's Emotional Support Squirrel Delays Flight
I love animals, well pets anyway. I admire some wild animals, especially wolves. I abhor hunting and/or people who kill animals for fun. I don't view animals as assets to be cancelled when they cost...
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Black Uber Driver Threatened at Gunpoint
As discussed ad nauseam one of the bad things about being black in a society that runs on the idea of white supremacy is that not only the police but everyday whites feel entitled to question or to...
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Book Reviews: Sleeping Beauties
Sleeping Beautiesby Stephen King and Owen KingThis doorstopper is just under seven hundred pages. I'm not sure it needed to be that long. It starts quickly but sags a little in the middle. You can make...
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Detroit Squatters Lose A Round
Because many of my older relatives, friends, and people I know in Detroit grew up in racially defined horrible poverty and segregation with plenty of bitter experiences with evictions and racist...
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Republican Tax Cut Doesn't Work: Republicans Threaten Social Security
The inescapable problem with voting is that there are a lot of stupid, gullible, or downright hateful people who vote. Their vote counts just as much as yours or mine does. To be fair they may very...
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Should We Abolish ICE?
Even before the Trump directed zero tolerance illegal immigration policy in which every person who unlawfully entered the United States would theoretically face prosecution, some people, usually those...
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Megyn Kelly Out At NBC?
If you pick up a cobra and caress it there's a good chance that you will be bitten repeatedly. You'll probably die if you can't get anti-venom quickly enough. Either way, regardless of whether you live...
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South Africa ANC Political Murders
It is a damn shame that people who struggled against the violent apartheid regime, grew up under it, or were the first generation not to know apartheid have no problem murdering each other for money...
View ArticleGRRM Answers NYT Staff Questions
It would be wonderful if GRRM would finish the books. But I've made my peace with the fact that one ending of the story will be revealed sometime in 2019. And that will be that. Maybe GRRM finishes....
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Movie Reviews: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Mandy
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?directed by Robert AldrichLegendary superstar actresses Joan Crawford and Bette Davis famously hated each other. Some say both women made romantic moves on the same...
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Cesar Sayoc, Pipe Bombs and Conservative Hate
From what we know now the primary suspect in the pipe bombing campaign against Democrats and/or liberal "enemies" of Trump is a Republican. Fortunately, he or whoever sent these bombs was inept. This...
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Cops Chase Crazy Crackheads
The obvious takeaways from this story are that (a) crack cocaine is a hell of a drug (b) drug abuse prematurely ages people something fierce and (c) despite what they sometimes claim cops are actually...
View Article60 Seconds of Michigan Fall Colors
Fall is the best season.Fall is best experienced in the Midwest and especially Michigan.
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German Far Right Raises Profile
Although the United States is not officially a nation based primarily on lineage and blood and soil, Germany is. There are apparently more than a few Germans who do not like the idea of sharing their...
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NYPD Sgt. Ann Marie Guerra Abuses Co-Workers
I wasn't surprised or shocked to read that a female police officer could allegedly be dismissive or sexually abusive to male co-workers. We should all be beyond the fantasy that women are morally...
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Should the US Senate be changed?
In the wake of the 2016 Presidential election and Trump's appointment of not one but two justices to the Supreme Court some people are arguing that the Senate and Electoral College have outlived their...
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Movie Reviews: Avengers: Infinity War
Avengers: Infinity Wardirected by Joe and Anthony RussoI didn't see this film in the theater. I don't remember why. I do remember that after its debut two different people told me their concerns about...
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Racist Ads and Mid-Term Elections: Who Will Win?
You may recall that current Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell seethed with rage when during the period that McConnell was Senate Minority Leader, Democrats got rid of the filibuster for confirming...
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