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Obama As The New Kennedy
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July 18 2008
Some people working in the mainstream media have begun comparing Barack Obama to the late President John Kennedy. While the two men have some things in common, they are different in many ways too.
Things that are similar about both Obama and...
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gjcondon on 2008-07-18 12:08:41
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The Up Side Of The Energy Crunch
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July 13 2008
There's no denying that the growing oil crisis is causing all of us to make changes in our lives, some of them painful. This will be especially true for those people who dove deepest into the world of cheap oil by purchasing gas guzzling SUVs and homes that were...
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gjcondon on 2008-07-13 14:25:16
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Just Another Politician
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July 6 2008
Lately, Barack Obama seems to be changing his position on a number of political issues and some of his supporters are complaining that he is morphing into "just another politician". They're right, but how could it be otherwise? Obama has a stark choice. He...
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gjcondon on 2008-07-06 16:35:58
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The Canadian Problem
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July 1 2008
Recently, Peter Mansbridge who is Chief Correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was visiting Washington DC and he was fortunate enough to obtain a joint interview with both of the American presidential candidates. This is a partial transcript of...
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gjcondon on 2008-07-01 13:15:42
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Are We Tough Enough?
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June 25 2008
There's no doubt that North America is experiencing hard times and they will get much harder before things improve. Your grandparents could have told you that difficult periods are nothing new because they lived through the Great Depression and World War II. It's...
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gjcondon on 2008-06-25 11:38:30
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The Original Story Explicit Content
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June 18 2008
When people learn that I write, many of them ask, "Where do you get your ideas?". I'm always puzzled by that question because I could ask them, "Where do you get your drea
ms at night?". Still, I must admit that coming up with an original story idea...
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gjcondon on 2008-06-18 15:47:01
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Stupid Movie Questions
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June 15 2008
Watch enough old movies and you'll notice that some of the characters in these films ask questions that would have been better left unsaid because the answers won't be pretty. Here are some examples:
"Whoa, Harry! What are you going to do with that...
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gjcondon on 2008-06-15 13:12:41
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Movie Racism And The Chinese
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June 10 2008
I recently viewed three old movies that perfectly illustrate how racism and propaganda change over time to fit whatever happen to be the current biases in our society. All three films dealt with the Chinese as a group, but the image of Asians portrayed in each movie...
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gjcondon on 2008-06-10 15:28:08
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Three Very Different Speeches
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June 4 2008
Anyone who watched CNN last night was reminded endlessly that it was an historic moment when Barack Obama became the Democratic Party's presidential candidate, the first African American to ever do so. What viewers might not have heard so much about were the...
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gjcondon on 2008-06-04 10:24:37
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Adventures In The Writing Game
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May 28 2008
For almost three years now, I've been trying my hand at fiction writing and I've even sold a few books. Along the way, I've found that many things about being a writer are very different from what I expected they would be. For the benefit of anyone who is...
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gjcondon on 2008-05-29 16:20:05
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Is It The Man Or The Times?
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May 27 2008
A few days ago, Hillary Clinton set off a commotion when she mentioned that Bobby Kennedy had been assassinated at the Democratic Convention, during June of 1968. Let's give Clinton the benefit of the doubt and assume she wasn't signaling that someone should do...
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gjcondon on 2008-05-27 15:30:31
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Failed Classics
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May 23 2008
It's an interesting fact that many movies that are very popular immediately after their release fade into obscurity while other films that are not appreciated in their time become regarded as classics by later generations. For example, Citizen Kane is now...
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gjcondon on 2008-05-23 10:25:50
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Strange Old Movies
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May 20 2008
When I watch really old movies, I'm often startled by how much social attitudes and popular culture have changed during the past fifty or sixty years. In these old flicks, the cool characters seem to light new cigarettes every ten seconds and they drink booze like tap...
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gjcondon on 2008-05-20 15:50:16
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Attack Ads
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May 18 2008
The Republican Party seems to assume that Barack Obama will be the Democratic candidate in the 2008 American Presidential Race. They are no longer spending money on advertisements against Hillary Clinton, instead stepping up their attacks on Obama. They're even going...
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gjcondon on 2008-05-18 13:12:32
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Hillary Huckabee
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May 14 2008
Despite her recent win in West Virginia, Hillary Clinton has morphed into the Mike Huckabee of the Democratic Party. Like the Republican senator from Hope, Arkansas, Clinton has showed grit and determination while fighting a losing battle for her party's nomination....
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gjcondon on 2008-05-14 17:35:05
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Monsters With Soul
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May 10 2008
Even though they were shot in monochrome black and white and had primitive special effects, the early monster movies, such as Frankenstein, Dracula and The Wolf Man, had something that modern horror flicks lack. That something was a sense of pathos....
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Movie Violence
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May 8 2008
As far back as the 1903 movie The Great Train Robbery (with its climactic shootout between the outlaws and the posse), there has been controversy about film violence and its effects on society. Violence in drama isn't new. Oedipis Rex by Sophocles is...
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More Movie Stories
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May 6 2008
Here are two more stories about the movies that I'm told are true.
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During the 1980s, actor/writer Peter Ustinov was narrating a documentary about the Vatican in Rome. Accompanied by a camera man, Ustinov walked through the buildings and...
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Two Hollywood Stories
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May 3 2008
For today, I thought I would just pass along two stories from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Both are supposed to be true.
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One night, during the 1960s, film star Tony Curtis was leaving a New York night club with a male friend when a...
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gjcondon on 2008-05-03 15:36:19
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Answer To Movie Trivia Question
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May 1 2008
Yesterday, I posted this question for film buffs and I did warn that it was tricky:
What fictional female has been played by males in several movies and in a television series?
Answer: The fictional female was the dog Lassie. In...
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