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Posted by on Feb 2, 2015 in Blog, Movie Reviews | 1 comment

A Most Violent Year (Movie Review)

 

A Most Violent Year

 

New York City’s masterful crime dramas of the 1970’s weren’t just epic battles between the forces of good and evil.  The very best movies of that genre were poetic morality tales played out on the big screen.  In between sporadic scenes of bloodshed — godfathers, gangsters, policemen, and prosecutors paused to soliloquize about personal honor and so-called sacred codes of conduct.  Cops weren’t always the good guys, and criminals were necessarily bad.  Perpetually clashing worlds were a murky shade of gray.  The clouds never cleared.

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Posted by on Feb 1, 2015 in Blog, Sports Betting | 1 comment

Has the Super Bowl Finally Jumped the Shark?

 

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An estimated 110 million Americans watched the Super Bowl last year. But wait.  That number can’t possibly be correct, can it?  Given the U.S. population is currently 316 million, wouldn’t that mean 206 million other Americans didn’t watch the game?  If television ratings are anywhere close to being accurate, nearly two-thirds of the American population doesn’t watch the Super Bowl.

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Posted by on Jan 30, 2015 in Blog, Rants and Raves | 3 comments

Are American Parents Doing A Lousy Job?

 

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Are American parents doing a lousy job? That not really a question so much as an accusation.  Admittedly, it’s also a slap in the face to millions of parents out there who know far more about the ordeal of raising kids than I do.  Fact is, I don’t know a thing about being a parent or raising kids.  I pose this question for the sake of discussion.

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