Why the Gratuitous Bush-Bash in ‘Blind Side’? — I’ll Tell You Why…

In another scene, set at one of those dreary government offices where bored civil servants provide occasional slow-motion service to frustrated citizens, Leigh Anne demands to know who is in charge….

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A toothy tale of gender equity in ancient big cats

From Loyola Marymount It’s a tale that’s long in tooth. But based on X-ray and other analysis of specimens trapped in the LaBrea Tar Pits and elsewhere, a researcher says that a million years ago, there was an equality of the sexes. Sort of. And among saber tooth tigers. The long extinct cats gave up their gender equality secret: They were roughly the same body and tooth size, offering excellent evidence that in life, they did not operate, say, as modern lions might with big bodied males dominating smaller females and operating in prides. The saber tooths, the study suggests,…

Is a robot more motivating than Richard Simmons?

From USC Hey, for some folks, the leotard-clad Richard Simmons does the trick, and popular electronic games have proven that they can get couch potatoes up and moving for exercises of a sort. But can hunks of metal get grandma and grandpa moving and shakin their stuff? A Trojan researcher will try to find out under a new grant whether 70 volunteer subjects, 20 of whom are 60 or older, will be more motivated to exercise in response to a specially developed robot, um, in person and in the metal, as opposed to just watching the nifty engineered character on…

In Orange, a weekend festival of Korean films

From Chapman University This will be a weekend of cinematic celebration of works from the Land of the Morning Calm, as the folks in Orange have embarked on a major global outreach and snagged a partnership resulting in the new Pusan West Film Festival. That deal with one of Asia’s more significant movie showcases, which is highly popular among the young in the Far East and spotlights new films and first-time directors, will bring a dozen Korean films for three days of screenings. Prominent filmmakers from Korea also have been invited to Southern California and there will be special honors…

Picture this: the Internment’s aftermath, the civil rights era path to freedom, the`thrill of victory’

From the Japanese American National Museum, Skirball, Annenberg Space for Photography Said it before. Worth saying again: Los Angeles is a great visual capital of the planet and there’s plenty of proof around with photography of motion, grace and history on exhibit: In Little Tokyo, there will be a Saturday afternoon reception and signing of a new book that chronicles the war-time work of a major but unsung figure in the chronicling Japanese-American life: photographer Hikaru Carl Iwasaki. He’s the lone shooter still alive and was the only Nikkei photographer involved in the peculiar push by the U.S. government to…

‘So Stoned’ Director’s Health-Care Ad Selected By Obama Celeb Panel

A health-care ad, featuring cute little children on a playground reading lines like “I’ll be diagnosed with leukemia and I’ll die,” was winner of a nation-wide competition of…

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More Proof That America is a Racist Country

America is an inherently racist country.
Oh, sure, we elected a black President (or is this our second black President?  That whole Clinton-as-first-black-President thing always confuses me).  And…

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Open Thread Friday

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Lonewolf Diaries: Church, State, Jesus and Obama.

It’s no secret that the term “Separation of Church and State” has been bastardized beyond recognition by today’s post-ACLU era. Of course the toolbags of Hollywood have always done their very best to…

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Burt’s Eye View: Fox and Foes

Whenever I hear people outside the administration prattle on about how evil and biased Fox News is, I know I am listening to a flock of parrots who have never even tuned in. As a conservative myself,…

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