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Bill Maher discusses Religulous with Mike Huckabee.

In this video, Bill Maher discusses Religulous with Mike Huckabee.  It’s all quite civil, though both sides work hard to make their points. Watching this video makes me relived that at least some people on the national stage can discuss these serious issues without undue heat (that tone is what I sought when I founded [...]

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Ebert reviews ‘Expelled’

And how! Observe:
The more you know about evolution, or simple logic, the more you are likely to be appalled by the film. No one with an ability for critical thinking could watch more than three minutes without becoming aware of its tactics. It isn’t even subtle.
Mmm, that’s good Ebert [source].

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Go see “Body of War,” in order to viscerally feel the injustice of the U.S. involvement in Iraq

Go see “Body of War,” in order to viscerally feel the injustice of the U.S. involvement in Iraq

Tonight, I had the privilege to attend a private screening of Phil Donahue’s new movie, “Body of War.” The film was shown to several hundred people attending the 2008 National Conference for Media Reform in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
In his introduction to the film, Donahue indicated that “We have the most sanitized war in our history.” [...]

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Days “chopped into pieces”.

I want to share with everyone a passage from the opening of the movie The Gods Must be Crazy. This silly 1980s movie provides a very oversimplified, idealized image of African Bushmen, but at the same time gets its label of modern westernized man spot-on. This excerpt from the film’s opening narration always makes me [...]