Spring Break
Author Dr. Deborah Lipstadt, presidential appointee to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, the body empowered by Congress to oversee the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, spoke to an audience of 30 students Thursday afternoon at UMKC in the School of Education
Well, as you all may know, the prime-time Emmy awards were last Sunday. And before we go into discussing the importance of these Hollywood backscratches, I have to describe the dilemma involved in the watching of said backscratches. Within 60 minutes of each other, Game Seven of the World Series and the NFL’s Sunday Night Jets/Saints game from New Orleans started on different channels, while the “important” event - the Emmy awards, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres - was being aired on CBS.
On Screen- “Bones” Director- Ernest Dickerson (2001) While it’s far from a great movie, “Bones” is certainly better than expected. When four enterprising young people decide to renovate a dilapidated house in a crime-ridden inner-city neighborhood, they accidentally re-animate the long dead and notorious Jimmy Bones (Snoop Dogg).
With all the television schedule changes, re-editing of questionable images, words and sentiments, and the nearly inexplicable sudden adoration of George “Dubya” Bush, the entertainment industry is suffering from an overwhelming pussification, the likes of which the world hasn’t seen since Lincoln passed the Seditious Libel Act.
Everyone knows that people get crabby over the Christmas season. Maybe not you or me, but a lot of people do and I blame a good chunk of that on lack of finance. It is true that many other things go on over the winter holidays to drive people mad, but if we all were a little more secure in the pocketbook we’d be a little more chipper in the shopping malls, highways, etc.
