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Movie Review: 42

Scott Holleran — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:25:41 +0000

Jackie Robinson is the subject of the poorly named 42, an overly sentimental movie about how to change a culture one man at a time that can’t help but be powerful and moving. Unlike other fact-based historical films centering upon an individual, such as Good Night, and Good Luck and Schindler’s List, there is fundamental [...]

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Maher’s Hard Left Turn

Scott Holleran — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 07:29:43 +0000

Comedian Bill Maher recently railed against Ayn Rand in his repudiation of libertarianism in an amusing if ignorant display (watch it here) that underscores that the woman who created Objectivism is right to reject libertarianism. Maher has been a left-wing libertarian and his renunciation, which is putting his comments kindly, is both a full hard [...]

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Goodbye to Kathy

Scott Holleran — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:17:36 +0000

I lost a friend this past Christmas. Kathy was a fellow writer and journalist, as well as a wife and a mother. I’m sad to say that she ended her own life. Most readers may know of my past coverage of suicide, most recently in a newspaper article about teen depression and suicide in the [...]

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On Mass Murder

Scott Holleran — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 23:34:08 +0000

I am horrified by Friday’s mass murder in Connecticut. Exterminating children is especially gruesome and evil. I am, however, neither shocked nor surprised in the context of today’s times and I wish people would be a fraction as outraged by the mass murders that happen every other month to innocent, unique and unrepeatable individuals who [...]

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Death of a Nurse

Scott Holleran — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:00:33 +0000

So this is how it feels to lose a nation’s sense of life. There are so many examples in Western culture of rampant nihilism that, to me, it is evident that the American sense of life is gone. Remnants remain here and there, in relatively sentimental TV shows such as ABC’s Modern Family, popular movies [...]

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The Bum, the Cop and the Facts

Scott Holleran — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 08:38:49 +0000

This is about the barefoot Times Square bum bestowed with a pair of boots on a cold November night by a policeman whose act of charity was photographed by an Arizona tourist. The bum, it turns out, was seen last Sunday on the Upper West Side. The new boots, valued at $100, were nowhere to be seen. The policeman, [...]

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Today’s Movie Theater Massacre

Scott Holleran — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:34:12 +0000

News is still breaking about today’s attack in Aurora, Colorado, on a movie theater audience for The Dark Knight Rises. While I am saddened, I am neither shocked nor surprised. The latest American massacre (12 dead at this writing) is more evidence that the United States of America is in decline and dying. While movies [...]

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News: Rodney King is Dead

Scott Holleran — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 18:00:17 +0000

The man whose arrest and beating led to a government/media response that incurred the worst U.S. riot of the 20th century has been found dead, according to news reports (read my recent post on the Los Angeles riots here). His body was found by his fiancee in their home’s swimming pool 55 miles from Los [...]

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Remember Whitney for Her Ability

Scott Holleran — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:42:10 +0000

Note: two months ago today, singer Whitney Houston died (which I wrote about here on that date). The following is a piece I wrote to remember Whitney at her best. Remember when you first heard Whitney Houston sing? Was it “The Greatest Love of All” or “I Will Always Love You”—or maybe her Super Bowl performance [...]

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New Ayn Rand Exhibit at Chapman University

Scott Holleran — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:19:57 +0000

Attending a reception earlier this month to formally open an exhibit at Chapman University, “Celebrating the Drama and Philosophy of Ayn Rand”, I had the pleasure of being given an extensive and informative tour by Ayn Rand Archives curator Jeff Britting and was surprised to find new and interesting material about works with which I’m [...]

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