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Monday, April 22. 2024Monday morning links
Antarctica Is Colder, Icier Today Than At Any Time In 5,000 Years UCLA study: Gay couples at greater risk from climate change Bill Maher rages at Hollywood for putting kids at risk, calls Disney an aphrodisiac for pedophiles and slams Drag Queen Story Hour trend Bill Maher against Wokery Pro-Hamas Protests Rage Into the Night at Columbia University New anti-Israel tent city takes over Columbia University lawn days after NYPD raid as activists vow to stay ‘forever’ The Intifada Comes to America. Now What? " I considered moving out of the USA..." Democrats are taking from taxpayers to expand their own power Germany: Violent Migrant Crime Hit Record High in 2023 How Climate Change Narrative Is Preventing Africa From Modernizing and Gaining Prosperity The Second Cold War Is Escalating Faster Than the First - To understand what is at stake in the fight against the axis of China, Russia and Iran, just read “The Lord of the Rings. As long as American officials are writing checks to Kyiv, Ukraine will continue to push for maximalist goals. Turkish President Backs Hamas, Urges Palestinian Unity Against Israel Saturday, April 20. 2024Saturday morning links
Could EVs Compete In A True Free Market? Equitable Grading? Student Suspended After Anti-Israel Protest Complains About Facing Consequences for Her Actions Stuart's Saturday Miscellany Democrats Move to Strip Trump of Secret Service Protection Wikipedia had to censor its encyclopedia to make it more free. Are Iran’s Nine Lives Nearing an End? Friday, April 19. 2024Friday morning links
Rick Moranis Is 71! Inside His Quiet Life Since Leaving Hollywood 28 Years Ago What Happened To Bitcoin? Conservative Weakness - More divided than their opponents Ever More Audacious Efforts To Suppress Mainstream Conservative Speech TGIF: WWIII May Come Tomorrow, But. . .Google remembers it's a workplace. NPR CEO is the gift that keeps on giving. Why does Kari Lake sound reasonable on abortion? And much more. Columbia, Google’s crackdown on pro-Hamas protesters: Is that common sense we finally smell? DANIEL HANNAN: Why, despite two welcome victories, I fear we'll NEVER beat the woke nightmare. And the next generation will be even MORE intolerant Who Is Katherine Maher? Thursday, April 18. 2024Thursday morning linksMy pic from a recent hike. Those are Pileated holes How Often Do Happy Couples Have Sex? Sex is an integral part of most relationships, but how much is enough? ‘Sweden has been vindicated on Covid’ - Martin Kulldorff on why lockdowns were a disaster for public health. William M. Briggs on Embracing Uncertainty and Stats as a False God ‘Non-binary, neurodivergent’ activist ordering psychiatrists to push ‘gender affirming’ surgery over therapy New York College Suspends Professor "Energized" By Hamas Attack On Israel Google FIRES 28 employees over their involvement in $1.2B Israel contract protest inside New York and California offices Inside the disinformation industry - A government-sponsored agency is censoring journalism African Illegals at NYC City Council Complain About Free Food and Housing Illegal Immigrants Invading in Speed Boat Nearly Slam into Surfers in Southern California. California has seen an “exponential increase in maritime smuggling.” Biden’s border invasion continues by and, by sea, and by air…unimpeded and funded by hard-working Americans. NPR’s woke turn has destroyed its credibility. A veteran editor has been suspended for speaking out against its identitarian bias. Quotations from Chairman Maher - NPR’s new CEO exemplifies the ideological capture of America’s institutions. It's Bigger Than Katherine Maher and NPR Uri Berliner, the NPR whistleblower, has voluntarily left NPR Among the Activists Plotting to Disrupt the DNC. Plus. . .Uri Berliner resigns from NPR. Free Press Cupid. ‘Liquid Ass’ at Columbia. And more. Let's have a cease-fire in Chicago Israel: "Take the Win" What other country in the world faces this sort of attack and is then told to exercise restraint? Wednesday, April 17. 2024Wednesday morning links
Tesla Plans To Lay-Off 10% of Its Global Workforce. This may be the beginning of the end of the road for EV-mania. Where does recyling go in England? (video) Censorship in the Name of “Safety.” The rise of reverse gaslighting - The deep, the unavoidable, question is where this train of insanity ends Chaos in California: Migrant Boat Landings Surge Along the Coast Majority of Young Muslims in UK Want Islamic Law: Poll shows British Muslims want Islam as the national religion and an Islamic political party With everyone having fun exposing NPR’s leftist CEO, it’s also time to expose NPR NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his public criticism Why do critics hold Israel to a higher standard — and ignore these other conflicts? Tuesday, April 16. 2024Tuesday morning links
Understanding Current Events First Requires Knowledge of History Taylor Swift’s Experience Proves You Can’t Placate The Radical Left The psychology of cancel culture: New study pinpoints key drivers Here's the REAL Reason the Soros-Bought NYC Prosecutor Put Trump on Trial. Try Not to Laugh. Trump Apocalypse Hysteria Is Spiraling Into Madness. Do you think they really believe this stuff? Joe Biden’s Parole Pipeline Imports Over 950,000 Foreign Nationals to U.S., Exceeding Population of South Dakota California is the homeland of progressive anti-Semitism. Even Jewish progressives are waking up to the reality of anti-Semitic hate on the Left Tucker Carlson’s Turn. A Stabbing in Sydney. Plus. . . Book bans. The widening war in the Middle East. TikTok employees say they worked for bosses in Beijing. The Free Press’s first rodeo. And more. Monday, April 15. 2024Monday morning links
Suicide Mission - What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane DR MAX PEMBERTON: It's time to prescribe some tough love: How work can help cure the mental health epidemic The Prophets: Eric Hoffer - In 1951, a book by an unschooled dockworker predicted the forces that would give rise to radical politics on the left, populism on the right—and a president like Donald Trump. The Bargain with Government Is Coming Apart Rebranding DEI: How Colleges Are Getting Around State Bans Why Did Harvard Fire Martin Kulldorff? 'Revolutionary Suicide': UCLA Psychiatrists Cheer Self-Immolation in Leaked Audio. Med school talk glorified self-harm, violated CDC guidance, experts say The NPR Fallout. Iran’s Attack. Plus. . .A sneak peek from our debate in Dallas. Heartbreak for the ‘Golden Bachelor.’ And more. "This Person Is A Crazy Racist": New NPR CEO Exposed As Woke Activist The Week In Doom: Follow The Science Edition Biden Admin Locking Down HALF of Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve From Energy Development Ontario resident who wants both a vagina and penis wins public funding for unique surgery JK Rowling and the Cass report reckoning The Inevitable Result of Intersectional Gender Studies The Arsonist - Tucker Carlson whitewashed murderers to set fire to evangelical-Jewish relations It increasingly feels as though the Biden administration is sacrificing Israel at the altar of electoral calculation. REMINDER: The Biden Administration Granted Iran Billions in New Sanctions Relief Just One Month Ago
Thursday, April 11. 2024Thursday morning links
Tradwives, stay-at-home girlfriends and the dream of feminine leisure Marriage and babies really DO make women happier, says top researcher Doctors outraged as psychiatrist 'funded by big pharma' suggests antidepressants should be given over-the-counter Lukianoff: My First Amendment concerns with ‘The Anxious Generation’. I love and respect my friend and co-author Jonathan Haidt, but I don’t always agree with him. Even Senate Democrats Are Starting to Reject Biden's Radical Environmental Agenda The Latest On International Efforts To Save The Planet Through Climate Litigation The New Defenders of the Faith - Authors need to stop relying on victim narratives to sell books—not only because it tokenizes minorities, but also because it makes one dependent on the whims of liberal elites who are quick to adopt new pets Obama’s Americans - The former president’s atomized, placeless definition of who we are is a recipe for national disintegration US Drones Are Expensive And Error-Prone So Ukraine Turns To China Islamophobia Reconsidered America Is Now in the Business of Losing Wars Wednesday, April 10. 2024Wednesday morning links
" Nowadays, all unfortunate weather events–and even, in some quarters, earthquakes!–are blamed on “climate change.” Affirmative action Scrabble to hit shelves soon RETAILERS CLOSING AMID CRIME SURGE The UC’s Corner-Office Revolutionary - In a new memoir, a former academic administrator explains how she led the ideological campaign to enshrine DEI as a ‘core mission’ at the University of California. How long before the brave NPR editor exposing the woke broadcaster gets shown the door? The Ministry of BS Will See You Now Stuart's Wednesday Potpourri Matti Friedman: Why I Got a Gun. My Glock is an ugly little monument to the historic threat facing my family, my neighbors, and all of Israel. Haiti update Free Speech Champion Elon Musk Battles Brazil’s Supreme Justice over Censorship Tuesday, April 9. 2024Tuesday morning links
The reckoning over puberty blockers has arrived Blocking Puberty Blockers Ontario schools blame social media after years of failing to educate School’s out forever as education bosses use any excuse to skip class. Randi Weingarten and teachers unions did what they could to keep schools closed Addiction Activists Say They’re ‘Reducing Harm’ in Philly. Locals Say They’re Causing It. Democrats See Ordinary Americans As the Great Unwashed The Cultural Elite Is More Absurd Than Ever UMass Amherst Researchers Claim Racism is Behind Efforts to Dismantle DEI Policies “citing sources such as NPR, MSNBC, and Axios” I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust. Uri Berliner, a veteran at the public radio institution, says the network lost its way when it started telling listeners how to think. How We Got to 'Death to America' in Dearborn Monday, April 8. 2024Monday morning links
Eclipse Hysteria. Antiracism in the Maternity Ward. Plus. . .Michael Walzer on Israel’s war, six months in. Suzy Weiss on marrying rich. And much more. NYC to Pay $17.5 Million After Muslim Women Forced to Remove Hijabs for Mugshots Breitbart, by Amy Furr VDH: 11 ways Biden and his handlers are hell-bent on destroying America. The path to civilizational destruction should be very familiar by now From Deepfakes to Arms Races, AI Politics Is Here Feminists accuse pro-trans activists of ‘intimidation’ on Scottish march Famine in Gaza? 'They cut off organs': Interrogator reveals Hamas terrorists' Oct. 7 atrocities. Police officers who interrogated Hamas Nukhba terrorists tell of the horrors that the terrorists partook in as the October 7 massacre unfolded. In late 2021, Hamas held a conference on what they would do after conquering Israel. Saturday, April 6. 2024Weekend Catch-up
By the way - reminder - view "Defending Your Life" - one of my favorite Albert Brooks great ones. I feel it treats how I approach my own situation now... Saturday morning links Democrats Warn Parents To Quickly Transition Their Kids Before They Grow Out Of It “When did college students’ notion of themselves as adults shift?” Cancel Culture is Girl Culture The Prophets: Andrea Dworkin - Decades ago, the feminist warned of the damage that is done to both men and women living in a culture drenched in pornography. We live in that culture today. It's normal, for ever. Sex is interesting to people. ILLEGALS Bringing in Fentanyl is FINE But YOU Better NOT Smoke a Menthol Cigarette… Deborah Birx "Tried To Sabotage" Meeting Between Trump And Top Scientists In August 2020 Hamas Founder’s Son: U.S. Gaza Supporters Belong in 'Insane Asylum' Americans Differ on Ukraine and Gaza Friday, April 5. 2024Friday morning links Why Are Young People Troubled? Parents Under Investigation for Raising an Independent Seven-Year-Old From The Recycling Bin To The Landfill: The Major Flaw In Plastic Recycling "Backlash Is Real": DEI Exodus Gains Steam Across Corporate America Believe data, not activists: Transgenderism among kids is mostly a fad Scots Flood First Minister Humza Yousaf’s ‘Hate Crime’ Tip Line With Reports of His Anti-White Speech TGIF: Happy Cesar Chavez Trans Visibility Easter Day. Hipsters for nuclear war. DJT International. Fight Club on BART. Stoning makes a comeback. Plus: Seattle schools drop algebra and Amazon’s magic tech is just 1,000 people in India. Poland Prepares New Hate-Speech Law: 3 Years In Prison For Insulting LGBT People IS ADMINISTRATIVE LAW UNLAWFUL? European Conservatives: How Has Fossil Fuel Suppression Worked Out For You? Thursday, April 4. 2024Thursday morning links
Americans love Florida, even if you don't It's OK. I kinda like Stuart Save the Planet, Kill the Gorillas - "You can't make green energy without killing gorillas." Who needs gorillas? Seattle closes gifted and talented schools because they had too many white and Asian students J.K. Rowling and the Prisoner of the Cult of Trans - The Harry Potter author created Dolores Umbridge as a fictional tyrant. Scotland seems to think of Umbridge as a role model. Most gender-confused children grow out of it, landmark 15-year study concludes Tucker Carlson’s Prep School in RI Won’t Let Him Speak on Campus Because ‘People Could be Killed’ No doubt - a school full of killers George Floyd Protests - I point to them as the worst thing that has happened to America in terms of public comity in the past few years, on multiple fronts. So You Think You’ve Been Gaslit - What happens when a niche clinical concept becomes a ubiquitous cultural diagnosis. LA Times Seems Surprised That Restaurants Are Raising Prices With $20 Minimum Wage THE CASE AGAINST ADMINISTRATIVE LAW Boring but important The 20,000 voters who could determine the next president Biden's Next EV Mandate Is Out and It's Going to Break America Bloomberg Admits '10,000 Migrant Crossings A Day' Has 'Upended The Election' Ex-ESPN host reveals ‘every single question’ in Biden interview was ‘scripted’ by network execs Did Trump Really Do That? Progressive Media Never Tells the Truth Where Were These Ceasefire Bleeding Hearts for the Past 20 Years of Hamas's Carnage? Americans Differ on Ukraine and Gaza. What are we to conclude about these contradictory wars and American attitudes toward them? The more democratic and defensive the power, the more Americans support it—but only up to a point. A lot of people seem to have forgotten about the war in Ukraine. That’s a mistake. Wednesday, April 3. 2024Much Sorry with DelaysAs I mentioned, I want to write more as my system continues or alters. Sadly, it's been nuts for slightly over 2 weeks with a lot going on. I can share information or a few things, because it's been mostly good, but there are a few items. 1. Due to Chemo and Radiology daily (5 days) I have seen my health drop. Not significantly, but enough to definitely feel awful. Nausea, then treated. Weakness, handled by some improvements which manage a bit more extensively. The last 2 weeks allow the assistance of steroid assistance allowed in lower levels. Headaches higher the past 3 days. Treatments allowed in higher levels. As mentioned, my hair is long cut (and I'll share my lovely look now lately). 2. Overall feeling better in treatment as weekly doctor meeting have opened the assistance and treatment gains. Greatly appreciated. I have been in the city twice over 4 years, will add tomorrow and next week - though weakness is down slightly. 3. Radiology lost one day due to errors wasting 3 hours waiting last week - my day shifted by one day so my last day is 4/15 Monday - but I am heading immediately to leave Mrs. Bulldog behind as her parents will allow me to resolve in FL as I'll need restness and softness at the local beach. It will be helpful. Great to have healthy in-laws.
Continue reading "Much Sorry with Delays " Wednesday morning links
Dawkins: I Like the World Christianity Created Even Though I Don't Believe It Sippican likes Mexico Never Safety First Why young men and women are drifting apart Physical activity and mental health: Exercise’s therapeutic potential for depression highlighted in new meta-analysis Biden administration approves enormous wind farm off the coast of Martha's Vineyard as part of bid to drastically cut emissions by 2030 The End of Merit in Med Schools Will Be Deadly Iran Vows Revenge. J.K. Rowling Says, ‘Arrest Me.’ Plus. . .A tragedy in Gaza. RFK voters sound off. Ten stories we’re tracking. And much more. The coming revolt against woke capitalism - The ‘progressive’ super-rich have no idea how much the public loathes them. The Truth About Lies - Campaign disinformation is ubiquitous and hard to fight. But it mostly feeds the fever swamps and seldom changes election results. How Working Class Americans Became Second-Class Citizens. Blue-collar workers have been abandoned by both the Democrats and the Republicans. Batya Ungar-Sargon explains why. Tuesday, April 2. 2024Tuesday morning links How Exercise Strengthens Your Brain Duke University Helps Man Chestfeed His Grandchild J.K. Rowling Dares Scottish Police to Arrest Her over Transgender Criticism as Hate Crime Law Comes into Effect Assisted suicide: Human sacrifice today AMERICANS DON’T LIKE DEI And Just Like That the Border Stampeders were Released by an El Paso Judge Communist China had a good run — but the Party is over Monday, April 1. 2024Monday morning links
The NYT (Finally) Looks Back on COVID ‘I’m 28. And I’m Scheduled to Die in May.’ Freud: What he said, why he matters 'Equity-Based Algebra' Is as Bad as You Imagine It to Be Heather Mac Donald: Disparate Impact Thinking Is Destroying Our Civilization ‘Gender-affirming therapy’ is not beneficial, pediatrics group concludes In the US, a quarter of all people have not married by age 40, a historic record. Much the same is occurring in the EU, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and now China. St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones to Get Tough on VICTIMS – Wants to Hold Business Owners Responsible for Crimes Near Their Stores Memo to the 'Experts': Stop Comparing Israel's War in Gaza to Anything. It Has No Precedent The Case for Trump’s Foreign Policy Leadership Hatred in UK Mosques Saturday, March 30. 2024Saturday morning links
Narcissism for All - Forty-five years ago, Christopher Lasch identified what has become a defining feature of modern activism—“the ever-present, neurotic need to be recognized and affirmed.” The War on Citizenship - For global elites, countries are merely exotic names for trade zones and labor camps, and citizenship has about as much ethical or emotional significance as a gym membership. Most Americans feel otherwise. The Prophets: Allan Bloom - Nearly 40 years ago, a University of Chicago professor warned that higher education was closing Americans’ minds. Today, he could be called the grandfather of our culture wars. Stuart's Saturday Miscellany Canada Now Euthanizing Autistic People Joe Rogan: New York Times Reporters Are Essentially Hard-Left Activists Masquerading As Journalists The Great Replacement? As Americans Flee Blue Counties, Immigrants Move In Revenge Of The Swamp: DC RINOs Attempt to Sabotage President Trump’s Re-Election With Retirements, Insurrection Legislation – President Trump Must Work On Counter-Strategy Before It’s Too Late Gaza: Truths Behind All the Lies Gad Saad: The West suffers from cultural self-delusion Bud Light may lose 18% of grocery store shelf space after Dylan Mulvaney boycott Vanderbilt University officials end anti-Israel rally in chancellor's office by locking students in building without access to water or bathrooms Who Are the Real Fascists? Thursday, March 28. 2024Thursday morning links
Ivy League changes mind, SATs no longer racist Rich NYC teens are getting fake ADHD diagnoses to win extra time on the SATs leading to huge surge in points: 'Everyone is doing it' Tale of a Tampon - Scenes from a sit-in at Vanderbilt. Academia Versus Civilization - The antisemitism of campus leftism may be incidental. The barbarism is the point. Inmates Run NBC's Asylum: Former RNC Chief McDaniel Fired After 'Talent' Mutiny NYC Begs Supreme Court to Allow Over 800,000 Illegal Immigrants to Vote "There's A Lot More Chainsaw": Argentine President Milei To Fire 70,000 Government Workers The Rafah Crossing Wednesday, March 27. 2024Wednesday morning links
Twilight of the Wonks - The 100-year reign of impeccably credentialed but utterly mediocre meme processors is coming to an end The self-righteous often don’t have any self-awareness. NY Gov. Kathy Hochul Dumping $2.4 Billion Into Migrant Care, Pushing State-Funded Housing Construction Pushback on Squatting - Around the country, recent laws aim to close loopholes that enable the illegal occupation of properties. Law and Order Is a Killer Problem for Democrats Boeing’s Dead Whistleblower Told the Truth. Joe Nocera reports. Plus: The hit job on Andrew Huberman, the middle-aged millennial meltdown, the Baltimore bridge collapse, P. Diddy, and much more. Stuart's Wednesday Potpourri Biden claims he commuted over collapsed Baltimore Key Bridge by train ‘many times’ – but it doesn’t have any rail lines AP Tries to Inject Race Into Tragic Baltimore Bridge Collapse, Drags Up Namesake's Slavery Past Mexican President Demands U.S. Pay Up or ‘Flow of Migrants will Continue’ Biden Is Considering Illegal Immigrant Amnesty Prepaid Debit Cards for Illegal Aliens in NYC Israel Has Created a New Standard for Urban Warfare. Tuesday, March 26. 2024Tuesday morning links
Hawaii, Which Couldn’t Survive Without Fossil Fuels, Holds Climate Doom Conference “I Was Wrong About Renewables,” Says Former Green Energy Executive. A twenty-year veteran of clean tech now says we need to use more, not less, energy, especially natural gas and nuclear Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones Rewired Childhood. Here’s How to Fix It. If gender is a social construction, why would we not believe that transgender identities are socially constructed. Banning the Blockers - Gender clinics from Stockholm to San Francisco have been running an uncontrolled experiment on children, while cloaked in the mantle of human rights. Europe Blunders on AI - The United States should avoid the regulatory mistakes of the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act. Central Planners Can't Fix Iraq—or Detroit. In Fragile Neighborhoods, author Seth Kaplan applies his Fixing Fragile States observations domestically. Calif. fast-food chains slash workers as $20-an-hour minimum wage looms VDH: Will DEI End America—or America end DEI? Academia Versus Civilization - The antisemitism of campus leftism may be incidental. The barbarism is the point. Border Patrol Chief: Terrorists May Be Among Migrants Sen. Hagerty: Tonight every single Senate Democrat voted against my amendment that would stop Biden Admin from using taxpayer dollars to charter flights for hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens from their countries directly to American towns to be resettled. In the Shifa Hospital: “IDF troops apprehended approximately 480 terrorists affiliated with the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist organizations, and have located weapons and terrorist infrastructure in the hospital.” Monday, March 25. 2024Monday morning links
How Did Jelly Beans Become an Easter Candy? Bill Shatner turns 93 Gen Z Is Toxic for Companies, Employers Believe The Classical School Revolution. The Lady Lowriders Club. Plus. . .Is the SAT getting easier? A Big Week in Medical A.I. - Multiple new reports are indicators for where we are headed The Department of Justice Takes Aim at Apple’s iPhone Empire "The rule is projected to eliminate more than seven billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere over the next 30 years...." Which is nothing California Synagogue Leases Space to Mosque to ‘Ease Tensions,’ But a Lovefest Doesn't Exactly Break Out American Idiots Kill the American Century. After decades of foreign-policy bungling and strategic defeats, the U.S. has never seemed weaker — and dictators around the world know it High school students at a New York high school staged a massive walk-out protest this week in opposition to the district’s attempts to force them to share restrooms with the opposite gender, in the name of “transgender” acceptance. Planet Fitness Paying the Price for Trans Agenda ASU paid Ibram Kendi $35,000 for 60-minute speech He has a good agent Bernie Sanders’ four-day-work-week scheme is a prescription for poverty CNN Panelist Warns What Will Happen If Letitia James Seizes Trump's Assets, and It's Not Good for Dems “what’s going on in New York State with the weaponization of prosecutors’ offices both criminally and civilly is really troubling” “Real Time” host Bill Maher closed his show on Friday night scorching Democrats for “pandering” to minority groups for votes, telling them the time of relying on “identity politics” to win elections is over. James Carville Sounds Off on Dems in Wild NYT Column, Says Party’s Culture is Being Dominated By ‘Too Many Preachy Females’ Governor Abbott has no plans to stop sending them until the Texas border is secured. He is doing Joe Biden's job and Biden is fighting him every step of the way. Illegal Alien Lists All the Things New York City is Giving Him for FREE — and it’s Shocking Incentives matter Reporters arrested at border The Chaos in Haiti is Getting Worse Putin Vows Revenge For "Bloodbath" Moscow Attack, Points Finger At Help From Ukraine, As 11 'Terrorists' Captured Believe nothing Saturday, March 23. 2024Son's UpdateI do have some updates, but I have been busy. Short update(s). First, my personal close family arrived yesterday. Sister and her family (husband and children) from Vienna, Austria in arrivement. My father and his wife also arrived. My mother and my sister (who cares for her at age 88) arrived. My brother and his wife also arrived. All of this time spending and tiring, but essential with some more opportunities but with a less likelihood for complete original involvement of this kind likely again soon. I also have a new teach announced for in 3 weeks as a potential which was unknown, sudden, and possible starting after April's first week. I have been doing calls and set ups for that as well as preparation for an early MRI and completing chemo and radiology, while taking an in-laws family trip this weekend shortly. There other stories I will expand on a future day (Monday or Tuesday) but the key point are two fold. One is a larger natural public completion I will present to High School children after I speak with two of my pastors and possibly a local Rabbi of a friend. Another is using that as a larger presentation for more options possibly in video and/or public revolutions after it is seen on Maggie's Farm. The second fold is this attached story - a great shortage resolution of the value of Reservoir Dogs by Quentin Tarantino. While I have found many very good Tarantino films, Reservoir Dogs has been, since its release, as one of the greatest of its kinds. I have loved it only slightly less than Pulpy Fiction. Tarantino had several good films, but these were his two best overall in my view. My son did a wonderful set up and arranging a discussion about Reservoir Dogs and made it very much worth reading - I recommend it today and will follow up later with more. Enjoy this, I was overwhelmed by his knowledge as quite excellent. One side note. If you have not seen The Conversation, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS ASAP as the 50th anniversary this year. With Cazale in it, the film was largely ignored in the US in 1974 for poor reasoning by criticals. It is, by far, a great film overlooked back then. It was Cazale's poorest US film, its only wealth winning a Cannes 1974 Palme d'Or. It also won or was nominated for various Academy Awards, BAFTA and Golden Globes, in addition to MANY others. It starred surprisingly great actors. Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Teri Garr, Cindy Williams, Harrison Ford, and Robert Duvall put together an AMAZING story with top level management and story making. Phenomenal and widely overlooked until only now. My other son, upon my call after watching it, surprised me shockingly by admitting the very day before he'd seen a local Manhattan Film offer for The Conversation's 50th Anniversary and he took it in and was overwhelmed by its great production for 1974. I laughed and agreed deeply with him. I highly recommend this if you have time, too.
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