Monthly Archives: October 2013

The healthcare fiasco

Well the first reports on the effects of Obamacare are in and it’s not looking like the universal blessing promised. And that’s entirely aside from the software snafu. According to some reports, more people are having their insurance carrier drop … Continue reading

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Hubble telescope discovers oldest galaxy

z8_GND_5296 is not what you call a real exciting name, but the reality is exciting enough. Observations by the Hubble Space Telescope and Keck Observatory in Hawaii have confirmed the galaxy with that unexciting moniker is the oldest and most … Continue reading

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Post shutdown game-changer

Well the government shutdown is over, and boy am I glad all that anarchy in the streets is over and we can start picking up the pieces of our ravaged civilization! Well actually 83 percent of the government never shut … Continue reading

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Review: Captain Phillips

Pirates! Cicero called them “Hostes humani generis,” “Enemies of all mankind.” Pirates have been the scourge of the seas since ancient times. Julius Caesar was once the involuntary guest of a band of pirates. America’s first foreign war was against … Continue reading

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The worst thing in the world

“Ye tender arms, the same dear mould have ye As his; how from the shoulder loose ye drop And weak! And dear proud lips, so full of hope And closed for ever! What false words ye said At daybreak, when … Continue reading

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Review: Gravity

“Gravity” is only an hour-and-a-half long, has only two stars on screen, has more monolog than dialog and less of either than background music. It’s going to knock your socks off. It was directed and o-written by Alfonso Cuarón who … Continue reading

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To end a life

“Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter! O God, God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all … Continue reading

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Review: The Family

How many times has Robert DeNiro played a gangster? We could refine that question. How many times has De Niro played a mafioso? As opposed to a Jewish gangster (“Once Upon a Time in America,” 1984), a half-Italian wiseguy (“Goodfellas,” … Continue reading

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