Category Archives: Movies

The Coffee Shop – Insectophile

Posted on May 7, 2016 by Joy of Fishes

The Coffee Shop is an open thread-style discussion forum for human interest news of the day. From Sladmore Contemporary: Take one workshop full of junk and a Frenchman with an eye for detail (not to mention an obsession with bugs) … Continue reading →

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Frisco Flix Fascist Nix

Posted on May 3, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Hollywood North is not San Francisco South, nor North Hollywood or South San Francisco. But maybe in an age of media crime fascination there can be high-tech tours of location specific cinematic crime, something better than the Alcatraz … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, California, Celebrity, Civil Liberties, Crime, Fascism, Free Speech, History, Labor Movement, Law Enforcement, Media, Movies, Murder, Propaganda, Socialism, Television, Uncategorized, United States | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Morning Open Thread – Flying over evil with a drone

Posted on April 23, 2016 by Chuck Stanley

Morning Open Thread is an open discussion forum for human interest news of the day. The growing hobby of quadricopters, when mixed with high definition video cameras, has opened doors to places, people and things we could only imagine before. … Continue reading →

Posted in Anti-Semitism, Documentrary Films, Genocide, Germany, History, Holocaust, Nazis, Photography, World War II | Tagged | 9 Comments

Michael Ware’s Only the Dead knows that the end of War documentaries are not snuff films

Posted on April 2, 2016 by ann li-summers

        By ann summers No one wants to see the explicit images of death and the dying, the actual rather than the Michael Bay cinematic explosions, and yet like the spectacular trainwreck of the 2016 elections season, … Continue reading →

Posted in 2016 Election, 9-11, American History, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Capitalism, Christianity, CIA, Congress, Conservatives, Democracy, DHS, Documentrary Films, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, Foreign Policy, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Government, Government Propaganda, History, Hypocrisy, Imperialism, Iraq, Islam, Liberals, Libertarians, Media, Movies, NATO, Neoconservatives, Neoliberals, NSA, Politics, Presidential Elections, Progressives, Propaganda, Racism, Religion, Society, Syria, Tea Party, Television, Terrorism, Terrorists, Uncategorized, US Army, US Military | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Google versus GO – it’s enough to commit seppuku

Posted on March 8, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Like John Nash’s humiliation in A Beautiful Mind, it may be the case that like Mishima’s loss to Kawabata for the Nobel Prize, our lives may be determined by more banal activities. In Nash’s case it’s a … Continue reading →

Posted in California, information Technology, Internet, Japan, Media, Movies, New Jersey, Science, Society, South Korea, Sports, Sports, Technology, Television, Uncategorized, United States | Tagged , , , , , | 3 Comments

David Bowie Dead at 69

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Gene Howington

OED defines the icon as “a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol or as worthy of veneration.” Icon is bandied about rather casually these days, especially in the realm of entertainment. However, it is hard to argue that … Continue reading →

Posted in Memorial, Movies, Music, Uncategorized | Tagged | 6 Comments

Word Cloud: SARDONIC

Posted on September 11, 2015 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD “Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.”  “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”  “I hate writing, I love having written.” “By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and … Continue reading →

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Saturday Night Adrenaline Fix

Posted on August 1, 2015 by Chuck Stanley

by Chuck Stanley There was some discussion in yesterday’s Word Cloud about solitude and reflection. We are tied to our gadgets almost to the exclusion of the world around us. There are escapes. Since I live in the mountains, and … Continue reading →

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Political Cartoonist Mark Fiore Looks at Religious Freedom and Gay Commerce (VIDEO)

Posted on April 16, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

Posted by Elaine Magliaro Mark Fiore: What do you do when you sign a law that is perfectly fine and simply safeguards Religious Liberty for All in the great tradition of apple pie and God? Why, you urge your state … Continue reading →

Posted in Animation, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Conservatives, Democracy, Documentrary Films, Equal Rights, Fundamentalism, Government, Homosexual Rights, Humor, Political Science, Politics, Religion, Rock and Roll, Short Video, Society, States, United States | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

Stateside Indiana: Ridiculing and Speaking Out Against Bigotry

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro I’m am so happy to hear that Governor Mike Pence of Indiana “has come in for an extra heaping of scorn on social media” after signing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Curtis M. Wong (Huffington Post) said that … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Civil Law, Civil Liberties, Conservatives, Democracy, Documentrary Films, Equal Rights, Fundamentalism, Government, Homosexual Rights, Humor, Justice, Political Science, Politics, Short Video, Society, States, United States | Tagged , , , , , | 15 Comments