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A movie has to be incomprehensibly shit to star George Clooney and still bore you to tears.
Your Correspondent, If it had been an act of God, I’d lose my faith

Article 40, clause 6, point 1 of the superb little blue book we call the Constitution states:
The State guarantees liberty for the exercise of the following rights, subject to public order and morality:
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In comments a while back a chap called Moonsray challenged my assertion that 1st Century Judaism, while being a spectrum of wide beliefs can be appropriately seen as radically monotheistic. S/He counted, that Jews were not strict monotheists and that “Paul and the other early Christians plainly were not generally-strict-monotheistic-intolerant-of-syncretism Jews”.
We joke around Maynooth that [...]

When your life is busy you sometimes have to watch movies over a couple of sessions and only the absolute best films sustain such interruption to have the kind of huge impact Amadeus had on me.
Your Correspondent, Goes to Tim Keller for all his movie recommendations

The Serapeum was one of the grandest temples in all of Alexandria.  The arms of the statue of Serapis reached the temple walls on either side. A soldier, described by the great historian Gibbon as “intrepid” struck a blow to the cheek of the statue. The belief was that should “any impious hand should dare [...]

In 1897 the New York Times reported on the scourge of music piracy that was threatening the recording industry. The post office was the Pirate Bay of yesteryear. Shut those dangerous postmen down I say. First inspiring insipid Kevin Costner movies. Now revealed as the first information terrorists!
Speaking of pirates, the pirate bay was down [...]

The greatest compliment you can pay In The Loop is that the fact that it stars our pre-pubescent Venus, Anna Chlumsky, is not the best thing about it.
Your Correspondent, Still thinks the Temptations are the coolest of Motown

The leaked torture memos describe the intention of some of the interrogation methods at one point to bring about learned helplessness. This is a method developed by Martin Seligman at the University of Pennsylvania. Back in the 1960’s he:
conducted experiments on caged dogs, in which they used electric charges to shock them randomly. He discovered [...]

It is becoming a habit of mine, to quote Breda O’Brien’s Saturday column in the Irish Times. This weekend she was discussing the Sisters of Charity report into sex trafficking in Ireland: Globalisation, Sex Trafficking and Prostitution: the experiences of migrant women in Ireland. 61% of men who purchase sex are married or in relationships. [...]

Although I am able to compete with any brainy-nerdy-white-man-western Christian in terms of their thoughtful singer/songwriters in my mp3 collection, I have always preferred music that can make a noise. Reckoning by R.E.M. is far superior to Automatic for the People. Actually, Reckoning tops everything.
But I have realised by looking at my archives that in [...]