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Movie quiz: Have a quiz and a smile FacebookTwitterEmail Product placements abound in this scene from "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" -- fitting for a movie about sponsor-covered race car drivers -- but is it the film where Will Ferrell houses a two-liter bottle of Coke?Columbia Pictures Coca-Cola was first sold 135 years ago this week on May 8, 1886. Almost exactly 60 years later — on May 7, 1946, Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering was founded, the company that would later ch...

In 1964, Stanley Kubrick released a dark comedy classic titled “ Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” The title captured the absurdity of getting people to embrace the concept of weapons of mass destruction. The movie came to mind recently with the public campaign of Facebook calling for people to change her attitudes about the Internet and rethink issues like “content modification” – the new Orwellian term for censorship. The commercials show peop...

Fox News Outnumbered panel weighs in on Facebooks decision on banning former President Trump. In 1964, Stanley Kubrick released a dark comedy classic titled "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb." The title captured the absurdity of getting people to embrace the concept of weapons of mass destruction. The movie came to mind recently with the public campaign of Facebook calling for people to change their attitudes about the internet and rethink issues like "conten...

The Godfather Actors You May Not Know Passed Away The Godfather Actors You May Not Know Passed Away By Tim Lammers/April 30, 2021 5:32 pm EDT Many fans, film critics, scholars and industry organizations consider 1972s "The Godfather" to be one of the greatest films ever made, a consensus that was solidified with 11 Oscar nominations and wins for Best Picture, Best Actor for Marlon Brando, and Best Adapted Screenplay for Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo. Even more amazing, the films 1974 se...

Through Fire And Water Through Fire and Water Add to Spiritual Diary As Dale Carnegie, that most pragmatic of modern thinkers, once remarked: “The most important thing in life is not simply to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence, and makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.” (Dale Carnegie: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living) It is seldom in thi...

Stardate: unknown Captain’s log. For the fourth night in a row, Kim is in charge of gamma shift. He and the conn officer, Ensign Jenkins, banter for a bit on the subject of how seriously one should take the overnight shift, when they receive a distress call. Kim orders a course change toward the call to discover that the planet it comes from has no lifesigns. Kim wakes Chakotay, who assures him that he did the right thing, and then offers to let Kim lead the away team. An eager Kim beams down...

Who Was the Most Evil Scientist in History? The majority of scientists are, I’d wager, not particularly evil. Most just want to understand plants, or the Moon, or kidneys, or whatever. Conduct little experiments, marginally expand the stockpile of verifiable human truths, that kind of thing. Then there are the eugenicists, weapons/biowarfare specialists, corporate toadies, and genocide technicians who give those other scientists a bad name (and who, in their own perverse way, might think of t...

Tag: the vatican Saw this at Don Surber via disclose TV concerning the finances at the Vatican under Francis: The Vatican admits it has nearly depleted its financial reserves and pleads for more donations from the faithful. “The Vatican published its 2021 budget in its latest effort at greater transparency. It seeks to reassure donors that money is being well spent after mismanagement. For decades thousands upon thousands of resident priests and student priests and curial priests and pilgrim ...

10 Iconic Movie and TV Roles Played by WWII Veterans Actors Cesar Romero ("Batman"), Maurice Evans ("Planet of the Apes") and Sterling Hayden ("Dr. Strangelove") all served in World War II. 8 Mar 2021 It’s not always the movie stars who make us remember a picture. Sometimes it’s an iconic supporting character or a line of dialogue that resonates with audiences through the years. We all know the stars who served in World War II. Jimmy Stewart, Kirk Douglas, Clark Gable, Paul Newman, Henry Fo...

So far, the Anthropocene is not going so well: humans, she notes, have transformed half the ice-free land on Earth, dammed or diverted most of the world’s major rivers and emitted about a hundred times more carbon dioxide than volcanoes. In terms of biomass, people and our domesticated animals now outweigh wild mammals by a ratio of 22 to 1. From nuclear bomb test fallout to microplastics, signs of our presence are everywhere. Under a White Sky reflects on “our habit of mind - that w...