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By Jefferson Flanders When I walked across Cooper Square last Thursday just after dark, I found two columns of bluish light rising into the Manhattan night sky, an illuminated reminder of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. The “Tribute in Light” was a sight that stirred memories of that tragic […]
Hi all! Once again, I’ve had the privilege of reviewing more Avatar, The Last Airbender, DVDs. This time it’s the Complete Book 3 box set. The box set includes all 21 episodes of the third and final season of Aang‘s journey. And I have to say that it is one of the best animated series […]
From Palestinian writer/director Michel Khleifi, writer/director of the well-received Wedding in Galilee, comes Tale of Three Jewels, which, when filmed in 1995, was the first feature film ever to be filmed in the Gaza Strip. It was made only days after the Hebron Masacre, and the location for shooting proved incredibly apt as shooting actually had to […]
I have read a gazillion books, written a gazillion reviews, and interviewed more people than a telemarketer. Very occasionally there is some special spark that occurs, some connect that you can not define, you can not put your finger on it, it is just something that happens. In the past two years I have been […]
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the radical president of Iran who regularly threatens to nuke Israel and other representatives of Satan, is planning to visit New York, using the UN as an excuse. So Jewish groups, who don’t especially want their relatives in Israel to be nuked by a madman, are holding a protest. Hillary Clinton, the Senator […]
I enjoy politics. If anything, I get a little too involved. I listen to public radio every day, read Slate and The New York Times every day and have taken to talking back to the radio when someone, inevitable John McCain, says something stupid. Politics are fun. It’s like sports that actually matter. Now there’s […]
I don’t dance. That’s just a fact. It’s not a question of will, but instead one of ability. Sad, I know, but hey, that’s life. Some people dance and some people ride bikes and watch movies instead of dancing. I fall into the latter category. But, there’s a new edition of a movie out which […]
Let’s all face the fact that everyone has known for a long time. Disney animation is king. Yeah, Pixar and some others are boss at digital animation, but when it comes to ink and paper, no one can stand up to the original and nearly divine Disney animations. Now there is a new chance for […]
According to The Long War Journal’s Jane Novak, the US Embassy in Yemen was attacked today by a militant group carrying machine guns, RPG’s, and setting off a series of explosions. The terrorist force was repelled after blowing killing 16 people, and attempting to breach the US compound. After a fierce gun battle, the militants […]
One of my roommates really wants a dog. I understand the attraction, but I don’t want one for myself. They’re fine and everything, but they get in the way. The pee on stuff, they drop their hairs all over the place, it’s awful. It’s like having a girlfriend or a child – they stifle both […]
I remember when I first saw this movie. I went to it with my whole family and my grandparents, the ones that don’t like me now. It’s tough to find movies that the whole family can enjoy and this certainly seemed to fit the bill. We went to the theater in the mall at Eau […]
I actually reviewed the NEO some time ago. For those of you not familiar with this ‘gizmo’ it is a highly portable word processor that runs forever on 3 AAA batteries. It has a full sized keyboard, and a small screen that shows 6 lines of text, This may not sound very elegant to you […]
Despite some recent excitement about the price of beer in Germany these days, not to mention a Bavarian politician’s provocative remarks yesterday about how German beer drinkers are still fit to drive after putting down two liters (or maybe precisely because of peculiar things like this), it might be about time for you to get […]
Earlier last week an asbestos lawsuit was filed in Madison County Circuit Court against ninety two defendants by the son of a man who died from lung cancer recently. The lawsuit was filed by his son, Mark McDonald, from Illinois, whose father Robert was diagnosed with the cancer in September of last year and passed […]
 FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog September 16, 2006, San Francisco — In a show of bipartisanship, two powerful members of Congress sent a letter to the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) demanding that the BBG reverse its decision to terminate Voice of America (VOA) radio programs in Hindi to India. The BBG is a bipartisan body which […]
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