And now, for some much-needed humor…. “Looks like someone started listening to the reasonable voices in her head,” Trevor Noah said after Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene said she regretted endorsing QAnon conspiracy theories.Credit…Comedy Central From Trish Bendix Greene House Effect House Democrats voted on Thursday to strip Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments, […]
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“Judas and the Black Messiah,” the bio-pic about Fred Hampton, head of the Black Panthers in Illinois in the sixties, comes to us from a dynamic team. Director Shaka King (“Newlyweeds”) had met Ryan Coogler (“Black Panther”) in 2013 at Sundance.  Coogler (“Black Panther”) approached Warner Brothers with 50% of the film’s financing in hand […]
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  One of the more eagerly anticipated feature length films at “Sundance” was Robin Wright’s directorial debut, “Land.” Not only did she direct the piece, but she starred in it. Her co-star was Academy Award nominee Demian Bechir, nominated as Best Actor in 2011’s “A Better Life.” That sounded promising, as did the involvement of […]
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Filmmaker Sally Aitken took the glorious 16 millimeter film of Valerie May Taylor and her husband, Ron, and has made it into a 95-minute exploration of the fearless team, who braved the oceans of the world to study and photograph the alien world beneath the water, especially focusing on sharks. It was not their original […]
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Sam Hobkinson, the London-born writer/director of “Misha and the Wolves,” spoke to us prior to the World Premiere showing of “Misha and the Wolves” today at Sundance (1/31) and said, “This was a story I needed to film.” He went on to add, “This was a story about memory and imagination…about themes of storytelling. It […]
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Remarks from George Will, abridged, Washington Post of 1/22/2021 Re Joe Biden’s presidency: “There’s some things that I’m going to be able to do by executive order,” Biden said, “and I’m not going to hesitate to do it…but I am not going to violate the Constitution.  Executive authority that my progressive fans talk about (e.g., […]
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Who is Scott Perry, and why are people calling for him to resign? Scott Perry (R, PA),s a retired Pennsylvania Army National Guard brigadier General. He served for nearly 40 years and had multiple deployments, including combat in Iraq. Perry was elected to the Pennsylvania legislature in 2012, a Republican from York County in Pennsylvania. […]
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[Thoughts for today from New York Times writer Charles M. Blow,  1/22/2021, Abridged] “I had many feelings as I observed the Inauguration, a pageant of customs.  The first was the feeling of having—remarkably and improbably—survived a calamity, like stumbling out of a wrecked car and frantically checking my body for injuries. Trump taught us, the […]
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From Renee Potenza (of Austin, TX) “Get Off the Trump Train and Admit Your Mistake” To those friends and family members who voted for Donald J. Trump: Perhaps you are a life-long Republican.  Maybe you have deeply held beliefs about those values for which the Republican Party used to stand. Maybe you got on the […]
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“Never trust politicians. They are craven. It’s an occupational attribute.” So began Charles M Blow of the New York Times in his essay today. I could relate to Mr. Blow, an African American essayist. I wrote this poem, entitled “Words” when I was 16 years old, in Independence, Iowa: If fewer words were spoken, If […]
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The Austin American-Statesman Editorial Board (Austin, TX) posted this on Sunday, January 10, 2021: Politicians stretch the truth all the time. Some lies, though, are so big that they can pull at the seams of a nation, pit its people against one another, leave a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood in the halls […]
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Immediately after the breaching of the Capitol by Trump supporters, I experimented and checked to see if Fox was covering it (A: No, at that time). I went out on Twitter and Facebook to see what was being said. (A: “It was AntiFa!“) Let the truth go forth. To steal a line from the Austin […]
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Kamala Harris official portrait (2017, Wikipedia.org) I picked up a copy of the Los Angeles Times’ publication that profiled Kamala Harris. I plan to gift it to my granddaughters on their twelfth birthday this Monday, to show them that women can succeed at the highest levels of our society and that they must work hard […]
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I don’t know how many of you reading this digital page still get a REAL newspaper (i.e., paper) and, if you do get one, is it the Quad City Times? Since I am (currently) reading the Austin American-Statesman, a 150-year-old newspaper that was named Texas Newspaper of the Year 3 times and won national reocognition […]
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