August 2007 archive

Should you laugh at these cartoons?

I was perusing DA and I stumbled across some very interesting political cartoons. The first of which was rather amusing because of its content and the overly devious-looking caricatures. The second, however, wasn’t so funny, but it definitely proved my point about this so-called “war” (a.k.a. another excuse for Bush to have wartime presidential powers) …

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Like it was yesterday…

I am yet again re-reading Dr. Dan Kindlon & Dr. Michael Thompson’s Raising Cain. There is just something about this particular book that sets it apart from all the rest on the same subject. Do you know what that something is? It is an easy read with lots of case study excerpts, but the two …

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Contact

I know that the movie has been out for quite some time–the original release date being 11 July 1997–but I recently watched it again and believe that a critique is in store. This film was an attempt to capture all the complexities and mind-bending ideas of Carl Sagan’s book of the same name. Sagan didn’t …

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