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A number of years ago on another blog this review was published. Hitchens has now passed from this life, but I’ve left the review exactly as published before sans the introduction. Christopher Hitchens is, quoting the inside cover of god is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything: “a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a visiting professor of liberal studies at the New School…He was named, to his…
The long awaited, highly anticipated final chapter of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy comes to an end with The Dark Knight Rises, which opened this morning at theaters across the country. It has already been hailed as a “masterpiece” by Andrew O’Hehir at Salon and “mercilessly brilliant” by Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times film critic. Set eight years after The Dark Knight Batman is no longer a…
Last night the History Channel introduced a new Kevin Costner produced mini-series, Hatfields and McCoys, about the original family feud. Here are a few thoughts: 1) Romania stands in nicely for the Kentucky-West Virginia post-Civil War wilderness. 2) It wasn’t necessary to go to Romania to film. There are 150 acres behind my house that would have worked well. 3) There is a lot of grimacing in this…
In 1516, Sir Thomas More published a short book entitled, Utopia, on which titular island lived a society of complete religious, social and political perfection. The word has come to mean “an ideally perfect place, especially in its social, political, and moral aspects.” Interestingly, utopia comes from two Greek words ou (not) and topos (place). In other words utopia means “nowhere.” It does not exist. What dysfunctional is…
Last fall a friend of mine, Jay Sanders (who you should be reading, by the way) sent me a message that he had tickets to a pre-screening of Blue Like Jazz, the Don Miller written, Steve Taylor directed film, based on Miller’s book of the same name. In the providence of God Jay had to go back home and bale hay or something, so my wife and I…
