This is one of the greatest monologues of all Shakespeare’s plays from Merchant of Venice by Shylock. Popular culture does not seem to embrace this kind of high art but whatever. I have tremendous respect for Al Pacino before & more so after. His performance is stunningly honesty & convincing…In addition, no other speech can remotely convey this message about our common humanity which this blog is trying to explore.

“You can’t handle the TRUTH!” says Jack Nicholson. The technology was there then and is here now. BUT it’s efficiency/costs have to match & then beat conventional gasoline. The infrastructure & blah, blah, blah. Wonder what The Joker drives today?

Xinjiang province is where I could have elected to teach English last fall. Alas, I did not end up going anywhere. This was the site of the recent terrorist attack. We should all hope, pray & rub our lucky rabbit feet together for a safe Olympic games.

Oliver Stone, Michael Moore aren’t interested in accuracy but entertainment. Turns out that factual, academic analysis is not actually all that exciting for the general public. This film will no doubt engage viewers on the character of the current president. Will only go see it in the theaters if the agregate reviews are over 80%. This trailer was released in late July…