"They're bombing 1 1/2 million people in a cage," says a Norwegian doctor working in Gaza. The attached video contains pointed commentary by Bill Moyers, who addresses massive media failure and indiscriminate death. So often, the human condition seems to be the same sad story over and over, ever so…
Erich's post about free college got me thinking: what if college and healthcare were both free? What if America's college-bound population -- the nation's intelligentsia -- could seriously consider getting married and having children at the same young age that the rest of the population tended to reproduced? What if…
Over the recent holiday I was fortunate to find several good films on DVD at my local public library. One I have just mentioned -- The Ox-Bow Incident. Another is a trilogy about evolution, produced by the BBC. The films are titled, "Walking with Monsters," "Walking with Dinosaurs," and "Walking…
I've recently seen an outstanding WWII-era movie called "The Ox-Bow Incident," starring Henry Fonda & Harry Morgan. The movie is ostensibly a western, set in a small Nevada town in the mid-19th century. However, unlike other western movies of its day, in which you can tell the good guys from…
The weather channel has now been accused of having a pro-weather bias. Weather Channel Accused of Pro-Weather Bias Also consider a more serious media-crit piece by the Onion: an interview of a hot air balloonist who keeps trying to make his point.