French cinema seems to be highly associated with independent cinema and foreign films, at least in the minds of most American citizens.  Some of it certainly comes from a place of Francophobia, but much of it is because a lot of French filmmakers have been before their time and they tell stories of such light [...]

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Travelers often grumble about security measures at airports requiring them to remove belts and shoes as precautions to detect explosives.  Such inconveniences may seem like something from the quaint past in light of a new strategy developed by Al Qaeda.  An attack was carried out against the Saudi head of counterterrorism operations by concealing nearly [...]

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Sometimes it’s hard to tell if a movie is being bad ironically or is just plain bad.  More often than not, that is a really bad sign for the movie.  But with all the meta-references that go on in independent cinema and the overwhelming amounts of irony out there in the ether, sometimes you just [...]

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I’ve said it before and I will say it again – I adore Wallace and Gromit without hesitation in the least.  They first came out when I was five years old and they were the funniest things I have ever seen at that point in my life.  Even now, they are way up there and [...]

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I did not know who Mitch Fatel was before I got this DVD.  Once I started watching it, I realized that I did recognize him from some other things I had seen before, but I did not remember him based on his name.  That’s the problem with stand-up comedians – there are just way too [...]

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“An openly gay man is clinging to life in a medically-induced coma after two men brutally attacked him for being gay in Queens, the New York Daily News reported. “Jack Price was attacked coming out of a corner deli by two men Friday around 3AM in the middle-class neighborhood of College Point in Queens, New [...]

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Juxtaposed on the front page of The Wall Street Journal on Saturday were two stories that tell opposite sides of the lingering economic crises.  One article discussed the slight uptick in global trade as an indicator of the economic recovery to come.  The total interchange of good and services between countries fell more sharply in [...]

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Identity Theft Expert Robert Siciliano Imagine you’re a small business or an individual and someone creates a Facebook , Twitter or any other social media profile and uses your name, picture or logo. Next they start to post blogs and send out links as you. They may be contacting your clients to get them to [...]

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After sending Billy home the Abbott’s start cleaning the mess. They all agree that Billy did a great job putting this together for Colleen’s service. Ashley says she is anxious to to get back to the baby. As soon as she says that the hospital calls telling her she can take Faith home now. Sharon [...]

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She was the first to arrive, suitably attired in a fetching little number created by a famous designer in 1925; and was the last to leave. And why not? It was her 100th birthday celebration and she was enjoying the moment. Music, a play, champagne, and cake. It was all there, and all in her [...]

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My hope had been that we might shift our approach in Afghanistan from chasing the Taliban to development of people resources. The NY Times article below, however, makes that option look like pie in the sky. Presumably the Taliban will keep shooting at us and those who try to travel out to help people and [...]

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“Don’t ask, don’t tell,” a slippery moral slope! Catholics should be very concerned about the continued progress that is being made by President Barack Obama towards increasing immoral secularism in our American government and military forces. Over the weekend the President announced he would end the ,”don’t ask, don’t tell,” policy that has been the [...]

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A Patients Resource For Medical And Legal Information My reading habits might be a little strange to some people, my wife thinks that I am obsessed with the written word. That is not so. I read to learn, and there is much to learn in this world. For months I have been seeing adverts on [...]

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One of the more bizarre headlines in the news is a report that two people died in a “sweat lodge” and quite a few more people who were there required hospital treatment. Any physician hearing of this will suspect the deaths were from one of two causes: One carbon monoxide (which reportedly has been ruled [...]

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