Name: Steven Hart
Weblog: www.theopinionmill.com
Articles: 89
First Published: Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Last Published: Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Currently listing articles 89-51:
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Fond Thoughts For The Da Vinci Code— The hysteria about the book is far more entertaining than the book itself and should be encouraged as often as possible.
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Why There Won't Be A Democratic Landslide in November— So Bush and the Republicans are tanking in the polls? It don't mean a thing unless the Dems take a swing.
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Minamata 50 Years Later— Unnecessary deaths on a small Japanese island from mercury poison only became public because of a great photojournalist, Eugene Smith.
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Ted Hughes Gets An Appropriate Memorial— For a poet whose work was grounded in nature, a nature walk grounded in poetry.
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Si Se Puede: Amnesty For The Immigrants— You wanna build a wall along the southern border? Fine, but as soon as it's done, chuck Michelle Malkin and Lou Dobbs over the top.
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Wit vs. Humor: Why Stephen Colbert's Performance Was Masterful— Some defensive pundits are saying Bush got more laughs than Colbert. Of course he did. Colbert was after something more than just laughs.
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Another Turning Point in Iraq— More blowback from Iraq that we can look forward to.
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I Got Your War On Christianity Right Here— For all the conservative whining about "persecution" of Christianity, religion remains largely exempt from criticism in the public sphere.
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CD Review: Bruce Springsteen, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions - Poguetry in Motion— If you thought an album of folk standards was going to sound like compulsory chapel with a side order of wheat germ and broccoli, disabuse
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How Dare You be Intolerant of My Tolerance for Your Intolerance About Tolerance!— We can save America from damnation by not giving a damn about religion.
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Politics Kills: Clean Needle Exchanges Blocked in N.J.— Blind opposition to a necessary public health program discredits both Republicans and Democrats in the Garden State.
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Lefting and Righting with Neil Young— No matter how wrongheaded Neil Young gets, he eventually straightens himself out.
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Christie Whitman's Toxic Legacy of Lies— How the former N.J. governor helped the Bush administration betray the heroes of Ground Zero.
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A Review of The Ten Commandments: The Biggest Easter Egg in History— The magnificent awfulness of Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 trash masterpiece.
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Farewell to Richard Fleischer, Hollywood's Prince of Cheese— Saluting the career of a filmmaker who was almost, but never quite, good.
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Walking in Harry Lime's Footsteps— Why just watch The Third Man when you can visit it, too?
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Stanislaw Lem, Writer and Critic Extraordinaire, Dead at 84— Best known as a science fiction writer, Lem was a true heir of Jonathan Swift.
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The Destruction of Iraq: Apologies, Thanks, and Explanations— How do we explain to future generations how this horrible mess in Iraq came about? The answer is simple — scarily simple.
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Senate Democrats Never Miss An Opportunity To Miss An Opportunity
— Failing to support Senator Feingold's censure motion of the president is another example of Democrats as the "do nothing" party.
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Ethics By the Sea: Atlantic City Honors Boxing Promoter Don King— For those who are careful about what they step on, Don King Plaza will lie between the Boardwalk and Pacific Avenue.
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Appel Farm Arts & Music Festival: New Jersey's Best-Kept Secret— Two upcoming music festivals you might want to put on your calendar.
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Tributes Paid to the Late Science Fiction Writer Octavia Butler— A collection of tributes offers testimony to Butler's influence on the genre.
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Oscar Aftermath: Can I Pick 'Em or What?— Hey, weren't those French guys cute with their stuffed penguins?
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My Oscar Predictions for 2006— I doubt that a significant percentage of Academy Award voters have seen all of the movies.
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N.J. Senators Drop the Ball on USA Patriot Act— N.J. Senators wail over port ownership while the Patriot Act slips by them.
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Sand Kings of New Jersey: It's Their Ocean, We Just Pay So They Can Live By It— Should taxpayers foot the bill for upgrading the quality of private beaches in New Jersey?
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Octavia Butler, Champion Science Fiction Writer and Certified Genius, Dies at 58— If science fiction is a literary form that provides a symbolic arena for talking about contemporary life, then Butler explored the limits of that form.
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Body Snatchers of New Jersey, Inc.— I don't know about you, but I find it pretty hard to resist a newspaper story with the headline: HE WENT DOOR TO DOOR IN
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Slate Pundit Can Only Hear Conservatives Gripe About Bush— ...never (shudder) liberals.
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Bizarro World Update: Bush Consults Michael Crichton on Global Warming— The Bush administration ignores real science on global warming, but opens its doors to a pop sci-fi writer who thinks it's all a big conspiracy.
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The Big One: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival— JazzFest on an ordinary year is a must-see; this year promises to be extraordinary.
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The Problem With Profiling, Whether Pitbulls or People— The same qualities that make the dogs such dangerous antagonists also make pit bulls like Rufus into superb family dogs.
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Paul Hackett's Supporters Need to Dial Down the Anger— ...
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The Death of American Conservatism— As an intellectual movement and a political philosophy — as anything other than a fig-leaf for corporate scamming — conservatism is dead.
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Bernie Worrell: New Jersey's Claim to Musical History— It's not a wellspring of popular music, but Plainfield, N.J. earns its place in history as the birthplace of Bernie Worrell.
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Michael Crichton Gets a Fitting Literary Award— The AAPG award doesn't have a cute nickname, like Oscar or Grammy...
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The Rolling Stones Know How to Play Ball— This is, after all, the band that agreed to self-bowdlerize "Let's Spend the Night Together" into "Let’s Spend Some Time Together" for The Ed Sullivan
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Oscars: Penguins in Antarctica Vs. Political Vultures in Newark, N.J.— ...
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The Super What?— ...
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