"Frankly, those Tea Bag Party days seem like gentile times compared to the thuggery of the Health Care Town Hall meetings."
Unless you're referring to the likelihood that not many Teabaggers are Jewish, I think you meant to say "gentle times."
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
Saturday, August 08, 2009
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Is The Food Industry Manipulating Your Chemistry? An Interview With Dr. David Kessler
Great interview! I didn't know that Dr. Kessler had struggled with his own weight problem. I look forward to reading his book.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
Monday, June 29, 2009
Support Single Payer
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont is collecting signatures online for a petition to Congress in favor of a single-payer health care system. Sign the petition to show your support.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Saturday, June 13, 2009
REVIEW: Away We Go
I guarantee: You’ve never seen anything like the opening scene of Away We Go. I laughed more genuinely and more often at this new comedy than I have at any other film in recent memory.
Sam Mendes directed Away We Go while he was in the midst of editing his previous film, Revolutionary Road. The films form an interesting set of contrasts about women, men, and families in two very different times. In Revolutionary Road, April and Frank Wheeler were constrained and suffocating in the rigid gender roles prescribed by 1950s American society. But today, Burt Farlander (John Krasinski) and Verona De Tessant (Maya Rudolph) have no roles imposed on them by family, friends, employers, or anyone at all. When Verona becomes pregnant, they set out on a journey to find a place in the world for themselves and their baby-to-be.
Their first stop is to visit Burt’s parents. Jeff Daniels and Catherine O’Hara epitomize the type of self-absorbed Boomers who would rather fulfill their lifelong ambition to live in Antwerp than be present for the birth of their grandchild. From this dismaying beginning, Burt and Verona move on to spend time with other friends and family, each of whom shows them some aspect of a future they would never want to have. Alison Janney and Maggie Gyllenhaal are outstanding and hilarious in their roles. Chris Messina and Melanie Lynskey sympathetically portray college friends of Burt and Verona.
April and Frank Wheeler had married, settled into their “perfect” suburb, and had their two children before either of them turned twenty-five. Burt and Verona are closing in on thirty-five but had no plans to become parents until this pregnancy occurred. They love each other, but they aren’t married. Burt sells insurance futures and feels obligated to perform basso-voiced, frat-boy masculinity whenever one of his clients calls; in private, he worries that he’s a loser. Verona is a medical illustrator, but neither one of them seems to think of their job as a career.
In these times of freely-available porn and supposed sexual liberation, it seems as if many people forget that heterosexual intercourse creates babies! Watching these two characters navigate their way through this biological consequence makes a satisfying journey, even as it omits a Hollywood-style happy ending. Away We Go is a love story for today.
Sam Mendes directed Away We Go while he was in the midst of editing his previous film, Revolutionary Road. The films form an interesting set of contrasts about women, men, and families in two very different times. In Revolutionary Road, April and Frank Wheeler were constrained and suffocating in the rigid gender roles prescribed by 1950s American society. But today, Burt Farlander (John Krasinski) and Verona De Tessant (Maya Rudolph) have no roles imposed on them by family, friends, employers, or anyone at all. When Verona becomes pregnant, they set out on a journey to find a place in the world for themselves and their baby-to-be.
Their first stop is to visit Burt’s parents. Jeff Daniels and Catherine O’Hara epitomize the type of self-absorbed Boomers who would rather fulfill their lifelong ambition to live in Antwerp than be present for the birth of their grandchild. From this dismaying beginning, Burt and Verona move on to spend time with other friends and family, each of whom shows them some aspect of a future they would never want to have. Alison Janney and Maggie Gyllenhaal are outstanding and hilarious in their roles. Chris Messina and Melanie Lynskey sympathetically portray college friends of Burt and Verona.
April and Frank Wheeler had married, settled into their “perfect” suburb, and had their two children before either of them turned twenty-five. Burt and Verona are closing in on thirty-five but had no plans to become parents until this pregnancy occurred. They love each other, but they aren’t married. Burt sells insurance futures and feels obligated to perform basso-voiced, frat-boy masculinity whenever one of his clients calls; in private, he worries that he’s a loser. Verona is a medical illustrator, but neither one of them seems to think of their job as a career.
In these times of freely-available porn and supposed sexual liberation, it seems as if many people forget that heterosexual intercourse creates babies! Watching these two characters navigate their way through this biological consequence makes a satisfying journey, even as it omits a Hollywood-style happy ending. Away We Go is a love story for today.
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