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...gush,” Sidney whines to Clayton in one of his many tirades about how he wants to skewer celebrities, not pander to them. But the movie deals with his sentiment in such a tedious way that it fails to say anything new. These days, the celebrities-are-fake angle isn’t exactly revolutionary. Furthermore, the film’s attempts to add sophistication to this observation by intellectualizing its protagonist—Sidney’s dad surfaces midway through to offhandedly reveal that his son has a philosophy degree—come off as pathetic...
...cause of Affleck’s downfall, I then began to ponder about dinosaurs. To be an informed voter, do we really need to know about Sarah Palin’s opinion on dinosaurs?The beginning of the dinosaur question seems to be a viral email with preposterous fake quotes attributed to Sarah Palin that stated that “God made dinosaurs 4,000 years ago” as “lizards of Satan” with the manifest destiny that they would die and become “petroleum products.” Bloggers and pundits quickly...
...them as a “senseless destruction in the U.S. financial system” and a well-known executive exclaimed on the pages of The Financial Times that “Greenspan’s sins return to haunt us.” Finger-pointing, whining and semi-fake expressions of compassion with homeowners are all mixed in print and the airwaves with serious analysis. A surefire recipe for confusion has thus emerged. Although many seem to enjoy suggesting that the present state is disastrous or worse, certainly not all have jumped on the bandwagon...
...threaten to cut them, while ignoring government waste...and the thousands of subcontracters that are unaccountable and unscrutinized by the taxpayer,” said Carla A. Howell, president of the small government group. Asked to cite specific wasteful items, Howell described “exorbitant government pensions and fake reform of police detail” as only “the tip of the trash heap.” “Governor Patrick pretends to have finally addressed this egregious waste, but it remains wasteful, almost as wasteful as before,” said Howell...
...club for a night of good old-fashioned fun. The episode shows that young mothers don’t have to miss out on the glories of youth while bonding with their children. After all, mother and child gain entrance because their combined age is twenty-one (goodbye fake ID’s), share a lovely moment while downing bottles of their respective beverages of choice, and get the VIP lounge all to themselves when it’s baby-feeding time. Now why didn’t I think of that? (Note to those thinking of improving your social...