Every once in awhile, it is refreshing to take a look at albums not necessarily hot off the studio board. In the wake of the millennial musical haze that exists thanks to boy bands, in-your-face rappers, and be-bop girls who are too sexy for their own good, there is solace […]
Day: January 16, 2001
America’s Sweetheart Plays An American Sweetheart … AGAIN
What’s this? Another cute little feel-good movie? Yes, Sandra Bullock is back in the theaters, continuing her well established typecast as an all-American beauty in “Miss Congeniality.” Clumsy, geeky, and temperamental Grace Hart (Bullock) is an FBI agent who is constantly screwing up. After royally messing up an operation, she’s […]
What You Didn’t Learn in High School
So you got a good high school education, did you? Quick: What was Helen Keller’s political persuasion? How did Patrick Henry feel about slavery? What was the inspiration for Hitler’s concentration camps? Be careful how you answer, for as James Loewen points out in blistering detail in Lies My Teacher […]
