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‘The Final Inquiry’ Starts a Good Conversation
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Douglas Howe
To me, the title sounded something like an inquest into the Kennedy assassination or the 9-11 Report, but from the first scenes, “The Final Inquiry” clearly takes us back to biblical times, complete with thieves on a cross, a solar eclipse, earthquakes, and the stoning of an adulterous wife who everyone in town knew. From…
Scientology Blocks Sales of E-Meters on eBay
By
Ellen Leventry
As Americans, we expect three simple things: Life, liberty and the right to pursue happiness by selling things on eBay. But Scientology is standing in the way of that American dream, reports Scott Pilutik on RealityBasedCommunity.net. It seems that the notoriously litigious church has been using eBay’s Verified Rights Owner Program (VeRO) to keep ex-Scientologists,…
Britney, the Media, and McCarthyism
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Paul O'Donnell
Portfolio magazine blogger Jeff Bercovici calls the current state of Britney Spears a “Joseph Welch moment,” referring to the U.S. Army attorney who effectively put an end to McCarthyism in the 1950s by publicly shaming anti-Communist crusader Sen. Joe McCarthy. Like Welch, Bercovici is trying to shame tabloid traders in Britney’s mental-health meltdown by asking,…
Dog’s Out of the Doghouse: ‘Bounty Hunter’ Returns
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dross
Duane “Dog” Chapman–who you either know as the cool guy who catches criminals with the rest of his family, on the hit A&E show “Dog the Bounty Hunter,” or as that guy who was outed by the National Enquirer for spewing racial slurs in a tape-recorded conversation with his son, and then appeared on every…
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