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- tar posted on 07/17/2010Susan, I still owe you another review, but just saw this one last night, and couldn't contain my enthusiasm. ;-) Inception, a sort of review Once I told a snobby friend of mine that my favorite movies are preferably out of this existential reality that induce ethereal mind-altering experiences, while his is, he informed me in exact this word: "snobbish." I'd imagine he'd forgo the enjoyment of this brilliantly made movie after reading New York Times movie reviewer A.O.Scott's tract that is he
- tar posted on 07/25/2009
- tar posted on 06/11/2009
- tar posted on 06/02/2009The Summer of 1989 When the meeting started, I panicked. I¡¯d been invited by the local Young Democrats Club to speak ten days after the Tiananmen Massacre. The whole Democracy Movement was broadcasted to the entire world throughout the spring, and the brutal killings on June 4th were shown on TV in people¡¯s living room everywhere over and over again. What could I say that would illuminate more insight that people hadn¡¯t already heard? The club president, a man in his late thirties with an elegant soft
- tar posted on 05/19/2009Dan Brown¡¯s America By ROSS DOUTHAT Published: May 18, 2009 The movie treatment of his novel, ¡°Angels and Demons,¡± is cleaning up at the box office this week. The sequel to ¡°The DaVinci Code,¡± due out in November, might buoy the publishing industry through the recession. And if you want to understand the state of American religion, you need to understand why so many people love Dan Brown. It isn¡¯t just that he knows how to keep the pages turning. That¡¯s what it takes to sell a million novel
- tar posted on 04/13/2009
- tar posted on 11/11/2008A few days before this year¡¯s election, a co-worker and I debated the merit of California¡¯s Proposition 8. Of all the arguments he presented, what struck me the most was his outright accusation of me lying when I declared as a heterosexual man I was never sexually attracted to men, much less having the desire to ¡°experiment,¡± as he put it, growing up. What he sees as a society full of gay sexual predators ready to corrupt our youngsters in luring them away to their peculiar ¡°immoral lifestyle¡± was inc
- tar posted on 11/05/2008(Disclaimer: I never read WSJ, not even before it became part of Murdock's tabloid empire. I copied it from Paul Krugman's blog:) ...The treatment President Bush has received from this country is nothing less than a disgrace. The attacks launched against him have been cruel and slanderous, proving to the world what little character and resolve we have. The president is not to blame for all these problems. He never lost faith in America or her people, and has tried his hardest to continue leading our na
- tar posted on 11/05/2008
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