Author: wilfred

The Scarlet Letter: 2006 Edition

This article in today’s NY Times made my Texan-born blood boil. Here’s the main gist: Peggy Lee Penley’s marriage was going sour when she turned to her pastor. They had been friends for years and had started a...

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Film Review: This Film Is Not Yet Rated

The terrific new documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated takes us into the murky world of American censorship. Not only is it murky because its critirea is so arbitrary but it is done entirely in secret, or at least it was until...

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Film Review: Iraq For Sale

The new documentary by Robert Greenwald “Iraq For Sale” starts off slowly but ends with a whallop. The film interviews a wide variety of people, from families of slain Americans, soldiers, as well as former private...

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Subterfuge, Scapegoating and JonBenet

Are you as sick as I am of the 24/7 “JonBenet non-story” coverage? Then it is a good time to scratch this surface and see what squirms underneath. There is a fantastic piece at Slate today. Here is a taste: This...

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Film Review: Talladega Nights

So you are asking yourself, why is a silly Nascar film being reviewed on a liberal website? The answer is that it’s a very funny satire of all things Bushco and a very savvy analysis of life in much of America circa 2006....

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