Entries Tagged as 'Movies Worth Watching'
The easiest and most entertaining (alligators in swimming pools!) way to understand the financial crisis of 2008, is to watch the movie The Big Short
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It is a true story and covers the basics of how debt escalated into a financial explosion. It depicts our moral imperative to make money, to find the loopholes, to be the most wealthy–finance is a game! Read more... (551 words, 1 image, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)
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Tags: Money Matters · Movies Worth Watching · Non Fiction
Tags: Health and Happiness · Literary Fiction · Movies Worth Watching · Non Fiction · Social Psychology
August 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment
I just watched Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)*–for the second time. I was thoroughly entertained, but I realized, watching it, that I didn’t have a way to evaluate its veracity. I wondered, for example, if Mr Moore’s FBI interviewee knew what actually happened or if his criticisms were biased because he was “out of the loop.” When Ricky Martin couldn’t fly, was that before or after the Saudis left the country? I don’t know, because Mr Moore uses facts judiciously and juxtaposes events to lead me to believe what he wants me to believe. He’s disingenuous. Read more... (245 words, 6 images, estimated 59 secs reading time)
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Tags: Movies Worth Watching
Tags: Movies Worth Watching · Non Fiction
Sitting in the movie theater, waiting for Woody Allen’s Vicky Christina Barcelona
to start, I talked to my date about the meaning of marriage. I asked what was the point unless you let your minds meld, unless you allow your mate to influence not only what you think, but how you think. That’s a very exciting and dangerous thing to do. It requires that you trust your mate’s mind. It’s a romantic notion. Read more... (441 words, 2 images, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)
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Claire's Original Art Greeting Cards
There is nothing that says I care like a real snail-mail greeting card!
Click on a picture above for a plain-paper printable greeting card pdf.
Print on regular 8.5 by 11 printer paper. Fold twice so that the art is on the front and the title and copyright are on the back.
Write your greeting on the inside.
Mail in an A2 Invitation Envelope.
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“I don’t have time to be married!” wails Julie in Julie and Julia, a movie about Julia Child and devote Julie Powell. What Julie really should have cried, was “I don’t have time to work all day at my stupid government job!” 
Al Gore leads the charge for reducing green house gas emissions with his lecture 
by Gabrielle Walker (2003). Basically, we’re doomed. 
