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By George, He Got my Goat–‘The Men who Stare at Goats’
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Ben Witherington
George Clooney loves political satire, and here we have yet another film of that ilk. The movie is less than two hours long, but it seems slower as there are stretches in the film that drag. The cast on the other hand is not a drag– Clooney, Bridges, Spacey, and McGregor and all four men…
Culture Making Part II— ‘Three Cups of Tea’
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Ben Witherington
‘And the day will come when they beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks…’ Is. 2.4 Culture-making comes in many shapes and sizes, and sometimes the positive act of doing it proves to be not merely a diversion from but an alternative to culture destruction. I must tell you that reading…
Francis Collins, the Language of God, and Stephen Colbert
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Ben Witherington
The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Wild Thing– Maurice Sendak at the Movies
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Ben Witherington
I remember the 60s well. One of the things that happened in the 60s was that a children’s book got banned from a lot of libraries, perhaps especially in the South. It was Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are which came out when I was barely ten. Of course it later won a national…
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