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[S]cience is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.
The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
— Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (New York: Ballantine Books, 1996) at p.32.
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Red State official trailer and movie poster
The Red State official trailer and poster were announced today on The SIRmon (The Official SModcast Internet News Portal): This morning, we’ll get our first look at the first “Red State” official trailer and poster, as well as your first shot at buying tickets for the run at the great New Beverly starting August 19th. […]
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Cars 2
I love Pixar–truly. I’ve seen every Pixar feature film in theater on the big screen. It never ceases to amaze me how they are able to maintain such high standards; they continually set the bar for the rest of the industry. Granted, in the beginning, I was simply amazed at the animation, but Pixar gives […]
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Revenge of the Electric Car
New film by the director of ‘Who Killed the Electric Car?’ reviewed at plugincars.com: It’s been five years since Chris Paine’s cult classic documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car?” ignited a sentiment of lost opportunity and anger at those who would rob a future filled with plug-in cars from consumers. In that time the car […]
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Michael Bay may have finally found his forte’. You can mark me down for Transformers 4 too.
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QT and me
Kevin Smith, writing at The Red Statements blog about screening his forthcoming movie, Red State, for Quentin Tarantino: But before the flick, we were met in Quentin’s courtyard driveway – where the Pussy Wagon sits parked, forever awaiting Beatrix’s escape. After introducing his friend who was gonna be watching the flick with us, Quentin came […]
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Kevin Smith: “I Am So, Like, Sick of Movies and Shit”
Terrific profile of Kevin Smith by Karina Longworth writing in LA Weekly: But the fact that this is how Smith greets a journalist whom he’s never met is emblematic of the 40-year-old’s current modus operandi: totally unpretentious, fully accessible, completely self-indulgent.
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