TDOM | May 31, 2010
aka Decoration Day Memorial Day was first celebrated in 1865 by African Americans known as the Freedmen. To honor those who had fought and died to free them, they exhumed bodies of Union soldiers from a confederate prison camp where they had been buried in a mass grave and properly buried them in individual graves, [...]
TDOM | May 24, 2010
On First Philosophy “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?” This age old philosophical question has recently come to be of interest to me. The answer is either “yes” or “no” so it may seem simple enough. But it is not the [...]
TDOM | May 21, 2010
Sci-fi thriller based on a short story by Phillip K. Dick Not every movie contains a statement (pro or con) about male-female relations, feminism, or misandry. This is one of the ones that doesn’t. That in itself made it quite refreshing. It does deal with a couple of issues, however. Written in 1953, it was [...]
TDOM | May 18, 2010
According to the American Heritage Dictionary a right is “That which is just, morally good, legal, proper, or fitting.” MSN Encarta adds that a right is “an entitlement or freedom.” In today’s world, a woman has the freedom to choose pregnancy or not, prior to becoming pregnant. Abstinence is the old fashioned way, while birth [...]
TDOM | May 16, 2010
Bad acting, bad directing, bad production, very, very, very bad writing, and a whole lot of misandry It took about ten minutes to realize this movie was going to be awful. The only reason I didn’t shut it off was because I wanted to confirm that it would follow the typical misandrous formula for a [...]
TDOM | May 12, 2010
Will Smith is absolutely incredible. I’ve never really been a big fan of Will Smith, but this movie may have just changed my mind. He was nothing short of superb in the role of Ben Thomas, a man seeking redemption for a momentary lapse that caused an accident in which seven people were killed. This [...]
TDOM | May 10, 2010
Or Happy belated Mother’s Day My Happy Mother’s Day post did not post as scheduled. That’s because it wasn’t correctly scheduled. I accidentally typed “19″ instead of “09″ when typing in the date that it should post. I didn’t realize the error until this morning. Sorry. I think I’ll save the meat of it until [...]
TDOM | May 5, 2010
War, racism, bigotry, and manhood I had never heard of this movie until I saw it. I really wish that I had. It was that good. After watching, I had to go read a few reviews. As I did, I saw two common themes. First, the reviewers all seemed to like it for various reasons. [...]
TDOM | May 4, 2010
In honor of those shot and killed or wounded 40 years ago today. Photo by John Filo On May 4, 1970 the Ohio National Guard shot and killed four unarmed students, and wounded nine others on the campus of Kent State University. The incident is now known as the Kent State Massacre or the May [...]
TDOM | May 3, 2010
Minimally entertaining, mildly misandrous Primal Fear would have undoubtedly been better if it had followed the path of political intrigue rather than the one dimensional path of psychological thriller, mostly because it wasn’t overly thrilling. It starts slowly (setting up the subplot), then picks up as it moves into the plot, but dies about ¾ [...]