Deep Something

Informant!, The – A Movie Review

September 20, 2009 B. John 387 Views 1 Comment Matt Damon, Mark Whitacer, ADM, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, Melanie Lynskey, Steven Soderbergh

What was Mark Whitacre thinking? A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company’s multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion. But before all that can happen, the FBI needs evidence, so Whitacre eagerly agrees to wear a wire and carry a hidden tape recorder in his briefcase, imagining himself as a kind of de facto secret agent. Unfortunately for the FBI, their lead witness hasn’t been quite so forthcoming about helping himself to the corporate coffers. This was another movie Lay and I both enjoyed.

Culture Movies

9 – A Movie Review

September 20, 2009 B. John 303 Views 0 Comments Tom Kane, Shane Acker, Action, Adventure, Animation, 9, SiFi, Alan Oppenheimer

The time is the too-near future. Powered and enabled by the invention known as the Great Machine, the world’s machines have turned on mankind and sparked social unrest, decimating the human population before being largely shut down. But as our world fell to pieces, a mission began to salvage the legacy of civilization; a group of small creations was given the spark of life by a scientist in the final days of humanity, and they continue to exist post-apocalypse. We were both impressed.

Economy Politics Congress

Robert Reich Explains the Public Option

September 18, 2009August 10, 2015 292 Views 0 Comments Public Health Insurance, Public Option, Insurance Reform, Robert Reich, Health care reform

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich explains what a public option for healthcare coverage really means for working people.Pass it on to everyone you know. We can’t let the insurance companies decide who gets care and who doesn’t.

Culture Music Featured

Thank You To Mary Travers

September 17, 2009August 10, 2015 379 Views 0 Comments Bob Dylan, Mary Travers, Peter Paul and Mary, 1960s, If I Had a Hammer

In a sign that I’m certainly getting older, now I’m reading about people I remember mostly as being young and exciting dying in their 70s. Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary fame died at 72 after several years of battling lukemia.

Politics

Proud To Be A Democrat

September 16, 2009August 10, 2015 329 Views 2 Comments Roy Herron, Democrat, Tennessee

State Senator Roy Herron explains why he is a Democrat and how the Democratic Party has helped families like his across Tennessee.

Science

The Big Bang in Brief

September 16, 2009 B. John 330 Views 0 Comments Big Bang, Jana Levin, Pysics, Astronomy, Barnard College, Columbia University

Despite the fact that the Big Bang has sort of been going on for billions and billions of years, Janna Levin, a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University, explains it in this two-minute video about The Big Bang. This is part of a new series called the Briefly series. Taking theory and presenting it in it’s most concise form.The producers started with the Big Bang because the theory is important and amazing, but often misunderstood.

Faux News Politics Congress Presidency Religion Society Right Wingnuts Featured Media

It Would Be Funny If It Weren't So Scary

September 15, 2009September 29, 2018 B. John 370 Views 3 Comments facism, Fox News, Communists, Tea Bagging, Tea Baggers, Glenn Beck, Socialism

These are interviews with the 60,00 to 70,000 people who turned out for the big Tea Bagger March in Washington. Apparently, you don’t have to really know anything about what you’re protesting. It’s all just bad because it is Obama, and some industry or media flak like Glenn Beck told you to be mad and scared.

Politics Election

It Would Be Funny If It Weren’t So Scary

September 15, 2009August 10, 2015 483 Views 3 Comments Socialism, facism, Fox News, Communists, Tea Bagging, Tea Baggers, Glenn Beck

Entertainment Fun Stuff

Handy Man

September 14, 2009 B. John 321 Views 0 Comments juggler, juggling, hammers

This is a guy with some serious hammer juggling skills. Watch this all the way through and see how he can drive a nail with three hammers at once. I’ve always wanted to juggle, but I don’t think I’ll start with hammers.

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