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Best Motion Picture

By jelewis8 ⋅ February 27, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Winner for Best Motion Picture. – My pick: Million Dollar Baby – Oscar pick: Million Dollar Baby Dustin Hoffman is either plastered or had a stroke. What the heck is wrong with him, he apparently can’t speak English as well as Salma Hayek. I’m amazed. Clint Eastwood scores again, and it’s a top choice. Marty’s [...]

Let The Romance Flow

By jelewis8 ⋅ February 15, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

I may have been a little heavy on the anti-Valentines invective yesterday, though at my age, I think I can afford to be. After all, Ebeneezer Scrooge didn’t ruin his everlasting chances for love until he was twenty-seven. That gives me three more years to be crabby toward the part of the human race that [...]

Ski(K)ing

By jelewis8 ⋅ February 6, 2005 ⋅ One comment

Today, the ski trip, chapped lips, the Stupid Bowl. If you’re good. We’ll see. I just returned from a two day love-hate relationship with the West Virginia mountains. On the one hand, they provide pretty nice slopes for hosers like me who can only ski in the way you think of a ball rolling down [...]

Out Flooded

By jelewis8 ⋅ February 3, 2005 ⋅ One comment

I had another bout with comment spam flooding which shut my account down for about 8 hours last night. In the continuing fight to keep spam flooding under control, I’ve instituted a 10 comment per hour limit, and 100 per day limit. I doubt either will be reached by normal standards, and it will hopefully [...]

Sex in the Classroom

By jelewis8 ⋅ December 5, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Poor Paula Carmicino was told she couldn’t film two actors having sex in front of her film class. She wanted to show the contrast between the kind of self censorship humans endure during the day, versus the unbridled animal passion of sex. Her professor initially gave her the go ahead, but checked with NYU officials [...]

A Slight Fisking of Pollitt

By jelewis8 ⋅ July 18, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Katha Pollitt comments on the abortion poll posted here. I only read through about half of this before I got completely turned off by her blatant misuse of numbers. Polls, it seems, are only useful when they favour leftist thinking. Here, Pollitt somehow manages to nix the numbers while simultaneously supporting them. Here, she attacks [...]

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