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Not Your Average Groupie: What Every Music Fan Should Know
Have you ever dreamed of saying “I’m with the band”? Hanging out with them before and after the show? Going to the door and saying “I’m on the…
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Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection Film Review
Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection (Lionsgate) 1 hr. 54 mins. Starring: Tyler Perry, Eugene Levy, Denise Richards, Doris Roberts, Percy Romeo Miller, Devan Leos, Danielle Campbell, John Amos,…
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Documentary Film Review: Venezuela: Revolution from the Inside Out
In other news, there are apparently a bunch of self-satisfied Marxists running around Venezuela; this has been documented in the new DVD release “Venezuela: Revolution From the Inside…
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Libertalia: The Pirate Democratic-Socialist Utopia of the 17th Century
In 1728, the second volume of a mysterious and still not completely explained tome titled A General History of the Pyrates was issued. The author of this book…
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The Mysteries of Social Networking Sites
A litmus test is a test in which litmus paper is dipped in a certain type of material. The paper will then change colors to indicate just exactly…
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The truth about Jury Service
Last year I got ‘the letter’ which summoned me to Jury Service for the middle two weeks of January 2014. Although it was a bit of a pain…
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What age should you let your child watch or play a ‘12’ rated film or game?
This week my sons came home from primary school with a letter for parents and guardians which reminded us about the recommended ages that children should be before…
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Refugees – a poem by Brian Bilston
They have no need of our help So do not tell me These haggard faces could belong to you or me Should life have dealt a different hand…
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The five best books on Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement
I have been taken aback a bit by the response to my last post was on the Secularisation of Martin Luther King. A few people who have got…
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’12 Years a Slave’ and the ambivalent role of religion
Last night I went to see the film 12 Years a Slave. I am still recovering. The film focuses on the tribulations faced by Solomon Northup, (Chiwetel Ejiofor) a successful New…
