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Hatred of Gays in Missouri and France
The following was reported at The Huffington Post this week: Roger Gorley went to Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo., on Tuesday to visit Allen, his partner of five years. But when he got there, a member of Allen’s … Continue reading
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Tagged America, France, gay, gay equality, gay rights, lesbian, Missouri, rush limbaugh, women's rights
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A 3-D Film to See Before You Die: Werner Herzog’s “Cave of Forgotten Dreams”
It appears that Werner Herzog has produced a once-in-a-lifetime/not-to-be-missed film that, to be fully appreciated, must be experienced in a large movie house. It’s a 3-D documentary titled Cave of Forgotten Dreams. Its subject is Chauvet Cave in France, which Andrew O’Hehir … Continue reading
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Tagged art, chauvet cave, chicago, documentaries, europe, film, France, life, Los Angeles, movies, new york, werner herzog
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Do You Support a Burqa Ban in France?
About 2000 Muslim women in France wear the full body burqa, and the French Parliament is slated to vote on its ban Tuesday. The idea of a burqa ban is popular in France (in polls, about 80% of French citizens tend to … Continue reading
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Tagged burqa, France, fundamentalism, Islam, Jesus, liberty, Mohammad, religion, slavery, the Enlightenment, Voltaire, women's rights
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In Case You Missed It: The Washington Post on France’s Opening Up of Its Previously Classified UFO Files
The Washington Post, in 2007, reported on the opening of France’s previously classified UFO files. Here’s the link to the article. The article focused on two key incidents revealed in the documents—one of children witnessing a UFO and one of an Air France encounter. … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, astronomy, France, french ufos, reason, science, skepticism, space, UFO sightings, UFOs, Washington Post
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Get out of Afghanistan Now?
That’s former NY Times foreign correspondent Chris Hedges’s advice in an essay posted yesterday at TruthDig.com. Chris Hedges thinks that we’re in a quagmire in Afghanistan, and that we are, by meeting violence with violence, creating more problems for ourselves … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, al-Qaida, Chris Hedges, France, Islam, London, morocco, Muslim, Pakistan, taliban, Vietnam
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Embracing the Blonde Hay
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Tagged art, countryside, farming, France, Freud, hay, masturbation, poetry, psychology, Sigmund Freud, Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh
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Longing and Broken Connection in a Van Gogh Painting
Beneath a big and spasmodic sky, and before rolling countryside divided by high fences, Van Gogh foregrounds a chasm with two (or three?) people separated from one other person:
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Tagged art, death, France, grand canyon, life, longing, poetry, sky, Van Gogh, vincent
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Existential Contingency and Absurdity Explained by an “Onion Network News” Sports Video-Clip
Fully digesting the philosophy of Jean Paul Sartre, and soberly pondering Albert Camus’s famous observation that the first question of every life is whether or not to commit suicide—and then losing the opening coin toss to the Tennessee Titans—the Jacksonville … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, existentialism, football, France, funny, humor, Jean-Paul Sartre, literature, philosophy, sports, The Onion
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Femme Fatales and a Hegelian Computer: Jean-Luc Goddard’s Must-See Film, “Alphaville”
Alphaville is at once innovative and thought provoking. Made in 1965, the film seems to inadvertently capture the French philosophical shift from Existentialism to Postmodernism. At the time of the making of this film, Sartre was “in” and Derrida was … Continue reading
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Tagged Alphaville, art, Ayn Rand, film, France, George Orwell, Jean-Luc Goddard, Jean-Paul Sartre, movies, philosophy, postmodernism, Santi Tafarella
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