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...other Carrey movies, the star needed magical or divine intervention to change his ways: a boy's wish that his dad will tell the truth for 24 hours in Liar Liar and, in Bruce Almighty, God's command that he try being omnipotent in order to learn how tough it is to be in charge of the universe. This time it's just an excitable friend (John Michael Higgins) who drags Carl to one of those personal-help messiahs who pock the California mindscape. The word from this shock-haired swami (Terence Stamp) is "Yes." By saying yes to every...
...world - is smarter than I am. I don't honestly believe, though I have tried to, that this has been the case for the past eight years. It seems that George W. Bush never really got it. It was all just a photo op: "Hey, look where I am, Dad!" It is a shame that so many people had to die because of such childlike whims and lack of caring. I was born in the South, and I have seen a lot of ignorance and intolerance. I now live in Northern California, so I have seen both sides...
...here's a challenge. Start a new tradition in the New Year: a regular Sunday-night Scrabble smackdown; a spring clothing drive; a rule that every time Mom or Dad swears, they put a dollar in the charity box that gets distributed on New Year's Eve. At their best, traditions make us better; at the very least, they remind us how far we've come and how lucky...
...world - is smarter than I am. I don't honestly believe, though I have tried to, that this has been the case for the past eight years. It seems that George W. Bush never really got it. It was all just a photo op: "Hey, look where I am, Dad!" It is a shame that so many people had to die because of such childlike whims and lack of caring. I was born in the American South, and I have seen a lot of ignorance and intolerance. I now live in northern California, so I have seen both sides...
...loser table anymore. But at the same time, the truth is that high school goes on forever in some form or fashion. The workplace is like that, the world of music is like that. And while I'm not sitting here pulling out my gray hairs, I'm a dad, I'm growing up, and that's O.K. There are bands like Green Day that have done it before, or the Clash, which did it before them. It's O.K. to get older, and it's O.K. to be cool with...