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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping into the future.” This is a popular line from a Steve Miller Band song, and I believe it adequately sums up the thesis of the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.  The story of Benjamin Button begins and ends with a clock that ticks in reverse.   The [...]

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Religulous, point taken

Bill Maher’s new movie Religulous has just come out. I have seen him on a number of TV promotional spots like the Daily Show. He challenges the simplistic unscientific beliefs that so many religious people fervently hold to. He is shocked that people believe in a literal flood, a very real Satan figure, or the [...]

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