Monthly Archives: May 2009
It’s a Movie Mantra!
Awhile back I was privileged to read Movie Mantra number 64 for the estimable Martyn Darkly, and it’s apparently getting some buzz. Here’s the link. Martyn takes lines from memorable films (or memorable lines from not-so-memorable films) and presents them … Continue reading
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Metamor City Sidebar: What IS magic, anyway?
“Personally, I believe color television to be impossible. Since it obviously exists, I shall act as though I believed in it. We must do the same with this Energy Damper.” — Illya Kuryakin, in The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Dagger … Continue reading
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Abortion — such language!
Thirty-six years after Roe v. Wade we’re still tossing around the same irrelevant labels. Neither the side favoring legalized abortion nor the side opposing it is “anti-life.” Nor is either side “anti-choice.” They do differ on what “life” means, and … Continue reading
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“Save the Planet”?
We don’t need to worry about “saving the planet.” (Neither the Death Star nor Narada is hovering nearby.) What we want to save is the existing biosphere.
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