This afternoon we learned that the photos of Osama Bin Laden’s corpse would not be released to the public. In an interview for “60 Minutes,” President Obama said he was…
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This past weekend, I joined the throngs and saw Watchmen in theatres. Hoping to avoid the most obnoxious crowds, I went to a matinee showing, but was far more bothered…
I opened the paper this morning to discover that yesterday, 16-year-old Nicholas Browning pleaded guilty to shooting his parents and his two younger brothers last February. As the story goes,…
Do we love to hate the villains? Or do we in fact, love them? Isn’t Heath Ledger fascinating as the Joker in The Dark Knight? His make-up, his hair, his…
In this week’s New Yorker magazine, there is a wonderful article called “Virtual Iraq” by Sue Halpern about a new method being used to treat soldiers returning from Iraq who…
I recently watched a new PSA airing on MTV. It’s meant to make a point that young heterosexual women are the largest growing segment of the U.S. population becoming infected…
I was a little surprised this morning when I read an article on wired.com about a new report by Dr. Niklas Ravaja, a researcher with the Center for Knowledge and…
A new study presented by two researchers at the annual conference of the American Economists Association suggests that violent movies might help to curb real-world violence–an assertion that flies in the…
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