Wish I Could do That
A nice break in the day. Some Guitar music from Central Park, NYC.
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I would classify things in this category that were related to arts, literature, cinema, performance. Things that make us and the world better.
Vantage Point
Eight strangers with eight different points of view try to unlock the one truth behind an assassination attempt on the president of the United States.
Read moreAnnual Pew Forum Survey on Religion in America-The Results Are In
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life released annual survey results that indicate nearly half of American adults leave the “faith tradition†they were raised in to either join another religion or drop out of organized religion altogether. Ths year though, the unaffiliated  people who say they are religious but don’t claim allegiance to any particular institution or tradition  are now the fourth largest religious group in America.
Read moreEllen DeGeneres Remembers Murdered Gay Teen
All these religious right wingnuts think they absolve themselves of any responsibility for the violence purpetrated against gay people when they say, “Oh we don’t hate gays, we just hate the sin.” Bullshit. This is what you have wrought, and you will stand in judgement for it. These wingnuts love to invoke the Old Testament wrath of God when it comes to homosexuality. I’d remind them the prophets of the Old Testament were usually warning of God’s wrath in the context of how corrupt the religious leaders’ of that time had become. Micah summed it well: “He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?”
Read moreKnocked Up
Alison Scott is an up-and-coming entertainment journalist whose 24-year-old life is on the fast track. But it gets seriously derailed when a drunken one-nighter with slacker Ben Stone results in an unwanted pregnancy. Faced with the prospect of going it alone or getting to know the baby’s father, Alison decides to give the lovable doof a chance. An overgrown kid who has no desire to settle down, Ben learns that he has a big decision to make with his kid’s mom-to-be: will he hit the road or stay in the picture! Courting a woman you’ve just knocked up, however, proves to be a little difficult when the two try their hands at dating. As they discover more about one another, it becomes painfully obvious that theyâ¿¿re not the soul mates they’d hoped they might be. With Alison’s harried sister Debbie and hen-pecked brother-in-law Pete the only parenting role models the young lovers have, things get even more confusing. Should they raise the baby together? What makes a happy lifetime partnership after all? A couple of drinks and a wild night later, they’ve got nine confusing months to figure it out.
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