The Widow: Something To Believe In
Amazon Prime Originals’ The Widow opens in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with an...
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Author: Carl C. Curtis
A Remarkably Gifted Man: André Previn, 1929 – 2019.
André Previn died on February 28th although I didn’t find out about it until a few days later when...
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The Good Cop: Watch it on Netflix While You Can.
Patently, he’s a grown-up Boy Scout, a cop who does everything by the book, including the Good Book.
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The Knights of Columbus vs. Senators Harris and Hirono.
It’s one of the great ironies that the once highly offensive black-balling of Roman Catholics has today become the very stuff of high-minded political morality.
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Will Our Dog ‘Mandy’ Go to Heaven?
After a fashion, dogs think, make choices, obey, or disobey although not rationally. Yes, they have souls.
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Let Us Now Un-Praise Famous Men–Obama and Trump
Obama’s election occurred two weeks before the thirtieth anniversary of Jonestown without anyone’s noticing.
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The Durrells on TV: Your Passport to Corfu
By the standards of our superhero movie and ‘Game of Thrones’ TV cultures, The Durrells may sound dull, but it is a comedy.
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Oh, No, Mr. Eliot: October is the Cruellest Month
I don’t blame my parents for believing him, but the man was ignorant as dirt of what really happens in Virginia in October.
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A New Civil War May Be Closer Than You Think: Countering Jay Cost’s Optimism
The election of Donald Trump, love him or hate him, threw open the lid of a Pandora’s box that no one seems inclined to shut.
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Innocent Until Proven Guilty: Finger-Pointing Does Not Convict
My suggestion to my friends was that she was not credible so much as she was deemed sincere.
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