Drama, Movies

The Passion of the Christ

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The Passion of the Christ should more appropriately be called Mel Gibson’s Passion for Violence. Anyone who sets out to make a movie about the last 12 hours of Jesus’ life has the artistic responsibility to provide a context of what Jesus was all about. Mel Gibson message is that Jesus died the most brutal image [Read More]
Diary

A Free-for-All on Science and Religion

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  By GEORGE JOHNSON (NYT) Maybe the pivotal moment came when Steven Weinberg, a Nobel laureate in physics, warned that “the world needs to wake up from its long nightmare of religious belief,” or when a Nobelist in chemistry, Sir Harold Kroto, called for the John Templeton Foundation to give its next $1.5 million prize for image [Read More]
Humor, People

TomKat’s Wedding Picture

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When Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes failed to give the press a photo of their newborn child for six months, the tabloids started to accuse the couple of simply making up their baby story to create publicity. Here is a picture of their little girl, Suri, from yesterday’s TomKat star wedding in Italy, which image [Read More]
Comedy, Movies

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

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Remember the six months before American troops invaded Iraq. The French and German secret services were claiming that no credible evidence existed to show that Saddam was close to producing nuclear weapons. Colin Powel, in what became a reputation destroying speech at the UN, claimed that the U.S. had precisely this smoking-gun kind of evidence.  image [Read More]
Movies, Phantasy

My Super Ex-Girlfriend

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Uma Thurman plays a female version of Spiderman. Unlike Spiderman, G-Girl has a bad temper and has trouble keeping a boyfriend. When she is dumped yet again, she becomes exceedingly angry and vindictive.  Now she uses her supernatural powers not only to rescue people in need but also to cause mountains of trouble for her image [Read More]
Humor, Situations

A Come-to-Daddy Moment

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Maureen Dowd at her best. Her column about the dismissal of Rumsfeld and her speculations how it happened are hilarious. By MAUREEN DOWD (NYT) Poppy Bush and James Baker gave Sonny the presidency to play with and he broke it. So now they’re taking it back. They are dragging W. away from those reckless older guys who have image image [Read More]
Diary

Bush’s Brain

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 Until last night’s election, Karl Rove could take it as complement to be called Bush’s brain. American voters no longer seem to believe that the brain of the commander-in-chief is large enough to steer the nation in the right directions. Republican politicians entering the 2008 races will now reevaluate whether Rove’s brain is large image image [Read More]
Humor, People

Jon Steward on the Outing of Gay Evangelical Leader

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  Here is a another good story. Fallen Pastor Seeks Aid to Pursue Studies COLORADO SPRINGS, Aug. 25, 2007 (AP) The Rev. Ted Haggard, who left the 10,000-member megachurch he founded after admitting to “sexual immorality,” has asked supporters for financial help while he and his wife pursue studies in counseling and psychology. Mr. Haggard, the former pastor [Read More]