Posted on February 18, 2009 by Jay Solomon
It’s nice to see healthy divorce laws in a religion, just as it was nice last week to discuss healthy sexual laws within a religion. I would reiterate that living in a post-Puritanical culture means that divorce was only legal because people had “irreconcilable differences” within the past 50 years. And for such high divorce [...]
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Posted on February 11, 2009 by Jay Solomon
The implications about the importance of sacrifice to a society really come out in this episode, though I wonder to what degree it was intended, and to what degree it was just meant to be twisted.
Britney Spears is part of a media circus, hounded at every turn. And it’s gone too far. Hoping to land [...]
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Posted on December 24, 2008 by Jay Solomon
This is a ridiculously silly episode and not a conventional one by any means. When I first started watching it, I expected to be bored, and I was pretty annoyed that Trey Parker and Matt Stone thought that they could get away with giving me some bs songs instead of a real Christmas episode. As [...]
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Posted on December 1, 2008 by Jay Solomon
Definitely the funniest thing about this episode is why it exists. As you may have noticed, it’s the first episode of the second season. Well, the cliffhanger “to-be-continued” season finale of the first season was “Cartman’s Mom is a Dirty Slut,” and was all about learning who Cartman’s father was.
Fans eagerly awaited the second season [...]
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Posted on November 28, 2008 by Jay Solomon
I think that Michael Crichton is a spectacular writer. Not only are his stories compelling, his plots engaging and his writing enjoyable, but his ability to incite something entirely different in his reader is remarkable. Why? Because he often writes about topics that are (or should be) important issues of public discourse.
Crichton does not merely [...]
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Posted on November 6, 2008 by Jay Solomon
We Got Jacked
The premise of the entire election, we learn, was that John McCain and Barack Obama are part of the world’s greatest thief syndicate. They both decided to run for president – a plan 10 years in the works – so that one of them had to win. Why president? Because an emergency escape [...]
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Posted on October 24, 2008 by Jay Solomon
Before you is a letter from someone I know and respect whose work is all about helping fundamentalist Christians who have chosen to leave their abusive and delusional religions do so in a safe and psychologically sound way. As the author of this letter has written, “Marlene Winell is a Bay Area psychologist who specializes [...]
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Posted on October 15, 2008 by Jay Solomon
Since this entire passage seems to me to discuss how the Jews don’t believe in revelations that came after the Torah despite their verification of the Jews’ own text, I’m going to focus only on verse 94, which concerns, I think, chosenness. Please feel free to comment on any other part of this passage, however, [...]
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Posted on October 9, 2008 by Jay Solomon
Oh, how Wednesdays are better when new episodes of South Park are on at 10 p.m. After a 6 month hiatus, South Park finally returned to us tonight with a brand new episode.
Berare da Chineez
Cartman, it seems, is terrified that with the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympics (read my post about the Opening Ceremonies HERE), [...]
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Posted on October 3, 2008 by Jay Solomon
Last night I watched the entire VP debate, and I’d love to take a moment of your time to tell you a few thoughts I had and hear about anything that you observed.
1. The Moderator
I liked the moderator. Now, Biden and Palin made it easy for her because the arguing was minimal, but I thought [...]
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