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02/19/2010 - 01:47

       A critique of James Cameron’s Avatar[Italic] requires rash, oxymoronic statements.  It was awesome, but it wasn’t good.  It was like nothing I’ve ever seen, but also a script I’ve seen a dozen times.  To elucidate these contradictions one must dichotomize between the stellar presentation and the retread script.
 

10/20/2009 - 22:07
10/20/2009 - 22:07

 "Who is John Galt?” After one month and 1200 pages of Atlas Shrugged

09/20/2009 - 22:31

The nine am cocktails, extravagant lunches, clean-cut suits, and stunning elegance of the 1960s contribute to the enigmatic characters and dramatic plot lines of AMC’s

02/18/2009 - 18:46

      Trekking towards the peak of one of the world's largest mountains in Pakistan, Greg Mortenson was on the verge of death when he came across a disheveled mountainside village. This village, which provided him with food, shelter, and a peaceful place to recover and reflect, had an indelible effect on Mortenson.

01/24/2009 - 17:10

Tom Cruise can do a lot of things well: he can act, look good, and serve as the spokesman for a creepy sci-fi cult.  But a German accent, not so much.  In fact, the first thing one notices about the World War II historical thriller Valkyrie, which ostensibly takes place almost wholly in Germany, is the profusion of American and British accents throughout.  According to Valkyrie director Bryan Singer, the inclusion of German accents would have increased the risk of the movie "feeling false."  And this is a movie where such a perception of falsity would have ruin

01/24/2009 - 17:02

Scandal. Watergate. Deception. Lies. Deep Throat. Resignation. These words bring to mind one presidency over all others. The reign of Richard M. Nixon was certainly not one that warms the heart, and yet Peter Morgan and Ron Howard's portrayal of the days following Watergate manages to do so. Morgan and Howard present Nixon the man, not Nixon the flawed politician, it becomes evident that while the President certainly made severe errors in judgment, he did not maliciously seek to harm the American people.

12/03/2008 - 02:27

Love her or hate her, Sarah Palin certainly brought out some issues in the presidential race that, without her, may not have surfaced. She talked about Joe the Plumber, Joe Six-Pack, caribou hunting, hockey, and rural living. It was war hero and hot rural hockey mom against cosmopolitan Ivy-League graduate and seasoned Senator. We all know how that brawl ended…
 

12/03/2008 - 01:59

Ladies and gentlemen, this will be my last column. I will be graduating in December and receiving my commission as a Field Artillery 2nd LT in the US Army. So instead of talking about the election or politics, which I will be a neutral observer of for at least the next four years, in the spirit of Sarah Palin: I’m going to talk about something I want to talk about. As a soccer player, I had always associated running laps around the field with no particular point other than to make a practice drag on even longer.

11/07/2008 - 14:49

Before the 70-cent increase this July, the federal minimum wage was $5.85 per hour; this comes to $46.80 per day, $936 per month, and $11,232 per year. While many states choose to set their own wages higher, some states such as West Virginia accept the federal minimum.

11/05/2008 - 22:16

On October 3, the “king of satire” David Zucher released An American Carol, starring Kevin Farley, Kelsey Grammar, Jon Voight, and Dennis Hopper. These Hollywood stars represent an underrepresented, minority of the entertainment business: conservatives. For the first time, a distinctly right-winged movie takes the stage and, according to Kathleen Parker, “That's the movie, folks. In-your-face, off-the-charts, over-the-top, irreverent and insensitive in the extreme.”

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