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Monthly Archives: December 2012
Google hires Kurzweil, Singularity nears
Note: Cross-posted from my blog at The Marshall Independent. A couple of weeks ago Google hired Ray Kurzweil to be its new director of engineering. Google is best-known for its Internet search engine. In fact, the chances are good if … Continue reading
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Review: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Note: This appeared in the print-only TV Guide of The Marshall Independent. One day in the early 1930s, an Oxford don, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, was grading exam papers, when he was inspired to write on a sheet … Continue reading
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Again…
Note: This is my weekly syndicated column. It’s happened again, this time more horrible than the last. In Newtown, Connecticut, 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed his mother then went on a killing spree in Sandy Hook Elementary School, killing 20 children … Continue reading
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Review: Red Dawn
Note: This appeared in the print-only TV Guide issue of The Marshall Independent. “Red Dawn” is Dan Bradley’s remake of John Milius’ 1984 original. So why remake a Cold War action flick after the Cold War is over, and how? … Continue reading
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Review: Family life on the Disney channel
Note: This appeared in the print-only TV Guide issue of The Marshall Independent. I have two children, a boy, 11, and a girl, 6, so you may well imagine the TV is on quite a lot at my house. And … Continue reading
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Review: Breaking Dawn, Part 2
Note: This was published in the print-only weekend supplement of The Marshall Independent. Last year I reviewed “Breaking Dawn, Part 1.” I went to see “Breaking Dawn – Part 2” on the understanding that I’d have to go into Witness … Continue reading
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“Anarchist Soccer Mom” talks about parents’ nightmare
Note: Cross-posted on my newspaper blog at The Marshall Independent. There is much talk on the Internet after Liza Long, an English teacher in a small college in Boise, Idaho, and mother of four, wrote a blog post that went … Continue reading →