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Based on the true story of a notorious depression-era bank robber, Public Enemies brings the crime spree and police hunt of John Dillinger to the silver screen. In a film that desperately attempts to provoke any emotion, Public Enemies fails to capture the imagination, create emotional dimension or shock the senses.
( oh, pretty! Ewww, stupid )

Grief stricken, anger stricken, cancer stricken, My Sister’s Keeper, based on the Jodi Picoult novel, is one of the most stricken movies I have seen in recent memory. My Sister’s Keeper sloppily jerked tears in spite of inconsistent acting and overly edited writing.

( Meaningless Tears )

When a subway car is taken hostage, it’s left to the dispatcher to save the passengers from the gunmen. Packed with action and sprinkled with emotion, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, based on a book of the same name by John Godey, is a satisfying action-packed escape.
( Action are fun1 )

Dr. Rick Marshall, bent on proving his crack-pot theory, is literally dumped into a land with dinosaurs, distant primates and evil alien overlords. Land of the Lost suffers from a lack of comedic timing, outdated effects, pitiful editing, and painfully shallow writing, but offers plain silliness as a consolation prize.

( Or is it easy cheese? )

Every so often, a movie comes along that inspires the audience to live a better way, to take risks, and stop making excuses. I was stunned that this inspirational, physics defying film comes in the form of Pixar’s Up, a animated wonderment about an old man wracked with grief, a yellow dog, a chubby little boy and a huge flightless bird, in a floating house.

( It is that good! )

Today, I am ashamed to be a Californian.
Today, our courts did not have the bravery to ensure equality for all citizens.
Today, the court made me complacent in a crime to which we will be held accountable by the next generation.
Today, the California Supreme Court returned the institution of marriage back to its stone-aged meaning, turning straight women into heifers.
Today, the court tore apart all Californian’s First Amendment right to be free from an established religion.
Today, my struggle to be a tolerant atheist is being tested.
Today, I am angry.
Tomorrow, I get even.

In the world of changing business, when everyone is slapping the word Green on the side of their packages, Ray Anderson, CEO of Fortune 500 Company Interface Carpets, is setting the example for substantive change toward sustainability in business. The self proclaimed recovering plunderer, motivated by his epiphany of wrong doing, turned his high polluting, petroleum-based carpet company into a beacon for the direction of future business.

In a talk given at the 2009 TED Convention, Anderson said his company has doubled its profits while cutting its net greenhouse gases by eighty-two percent in absolute tonnage. In addition, its water usage was down seventy five percent, fossil fuels down sixty percent per unit of production, twenty five percent of the materials in the product are recycled materials, and that renewable energy accounts for twenty seven percent of their energy usage. Interface Carpets has proven that the dilemma between commerce and environmentalism is a false one.

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( Proof Business and The Environment Aren't Enemies )

Terminator Salvation is a pre-sequel (or is it a se-prequel) to the previous three movies in the Terminator series. Atrocious writing, shoddy effects and lackluster acting made me wonder why they bothered to make Terminator Salvation at all.

( I'm Shaving Terminator Off My Face )

Three weeks after saying he would release the pictures, President Obama is moving to prevent the press from obtaining the pictures of the confirmed acts of torture. The courts have already ruled that any “secrecy” considerations are insufficient to overrule the first amendment right to free press. Obama, ignoring the court and taking a play, from the Bush Administration’s playbook, said today he would try to block the release of the pictures.

President Obama said, "My belief is the publication of these photos would not add any additional benefits to our understanding of what was carried out in the past by a small number of individuals. The most direct consequence would be to further inflame anti-American opinion and put our troops in greater danger."
( I Call Bullshit On That Comment! )

The Brothers Bloom unwinds the story of two confidence men, an Asian sidekick and their rich but isolated mark. The Brothers Bloom is a charming off kilter dramedy about love.


( The Archer Fish of Comedy )

Over the last few years my grandmother-in-law’s memory has been slipping away from her, but has been more of an inconvenience than a danger. At times, she seems like she might be a good natured, well loved, background character in a sitcom about senior citizens. Convinced the cat has run away, stolen by the neighbor, or met a horrific end, every few minutes, she queries anyone in her eye-line as to the relative location of her nearly homebound cat. Unfortunately, age and time caught up to her on Friday.

( My night at the hospital )

Star Trek tells the origin story of the characters in the much loved Star Trek movie and television series. A science fiction gem, Star Trek even made this Star Trek hater’s heart race.
( Who knew I'd like Star Trek? I didn't. )

Lone Bigot Marian Barry

“There is a difference between civil rights and sacred rights.” – Bishop Harry Jackson

Washington D.C. City Council voted to recognize the same-sex marriages performed in other states. Twelve council members voted to ensure equality for all of their citizens and one voted in favor of letting his religious beliefs trump his duty to all of his constituents.

The lone dogmatist on the city council was Marion Barry, former mayor of Washington D.C. Barry told reporters that he had to pray and consult the “religious community” for guidance. Barry called his decision to perpetuate the systemic prejudice against his city’s gay citizens an "agonizing and difficult decision." It is unfortunate for Barry that the religious groups he is consulting with, in a moment of utter stupidity, have made an articulate argument against using scripture as a basis for law.

( The stupid came out! )

At eleven years old, John Hunt refused to attend church because he no longer believed in god. Forty-five years later now Doctor John Hunt told the church he wanted his baptism record removed because as a baby, he could not consent. After a bit of a struggle, Dr. Hunt became the first person in England to have his baptism cancelled.



“It struck me there was a lot of hypocrisy around. One Sunday I came back home and said, "Mum, I'm not going to the class anymore,” said Hunt.



( More about Dr. John's unbaptism )

In my work as an advocate for foster children in America, I’ve seen personally a level of abuse that might damage the psyche of an average person. I once saw a two year old child, with a face still so swollen he couldn’t open his eyes, returned to abusive home after two weeks in the hospital because “it was just the first time it happened.” So when I hear the abuse word thrown out willy-nilly, devaluing the plight of children who are actually abused, it makes me want to start a crusade. Compound it by saying that atheist children are abused because they don’t believe in god and you’ve thrown me up on my high horse. Say that a child expressing the fact that she’s an atheist does the same harm as child pornography and you might as well dress me up in armor, give me a shield and get out of the way of my morning star. Have this all said by someone whose title is “Child Advocate” engages the righteous anger in this atheist. In an interview with Bill O’Reilly, “child advocate” Wendy Murphy asserts all those things in response to the video below.



( Child abuse? Are you freakin' kidding me? )

On March 9, 2009 the crazed Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) set their sights on the University of Chicago. In customary WBC fashion, the members displayed god related hate speech with unabashed delight. The event took on almost a festive atmosphere as counter protesters refused to take the fundamentalist wack-jobs seriously. Unwilling to go unnoticed amongst the roasting marshmallows and clever signs, the Chicago Chapter of Alpha Delta Phi launched a protest that made me nearly wee my pants.



(  More from the protests  )

Please notice in this picture this man's penis is blurred out because it's the most offensive part of the picture

After many weeks of discussion, President Obama finally coughed up the word we all have been waiting to hear. He relented to using the honest word, the word we’ve been using for five years, the only word that could be applied to our treatment of many “enemy combatants.” It is not a pretty word, in fact it is a shameful word but it is the only accurate word. He didn’t skirt around and call it “enhanced interrogation technique” or “extreme questioning” or “unpleasant discussions.” He finally decided to use truthful language, speak with us like adults and say the two of the hardest syllables a civilized society could ever say. Torture.

"What I have said, and I will repeat, is that waterboarding violates our ideals and our values… I do believe that it is torture. I do not think that is just my opinion; that is the opinion of many who have examined the topic. And that is why I put an end to these practices." - President Obama

His admission would be a relief if there was any chance these comments were anything but hollow words. President Obama has not forcefully restored our country's integrity by requiring prosecutions of these shameful torturers. After his decision to release the torture memos, the presidential push for prosecution was conspicuously absent. In one press conference President Obama all but shut the door on enforcing the laws against Bush officials and torturers. A day later he cracked it back open, making his position on what should be done about these torturers dangerously unclear.

Eric Holder, the U.S. Attorney General, said he will enforce the laws, no matter where they take him, with one glaring exception. He won’t prosecute some poor innocent torturer who was just following orders.

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U.S. Attorney General Refuses to Prosecute "Good Faith" Torture
There are now three categories of interrogation, not torture, good faith torture and shock the conscience torture.
http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/1704851/us_attorney_general_refuses_to_prosecute.html

X-Men Origins: Wolverine Review
Forged in the heat of war and personal tragedy, claw wielding Wolverine was born. Shoddy production and inconsistent writing makes me wish that X-Men Origins: Wolverine could be retroactively aborted.
http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/1703581/xmen_origins_wolverine_review.html

Battle for Terra Review
A conflict between human nature and need pits all of humanity against the peaceful population on the planet Terra.
http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/1696304/battle_for_terra_review.html