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The Miscellaneous Thread For 12/12/13: Seasonal Amnesia

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Though at least race got some respect today with some of those Golden Globes deserved nominations (outside of Oprah), how mainstream Hollywood has gladly forgotten about Fruitvale Station in terms of the best of 2013 is unsurprisingly tragic. Not a shock that a movie in the summer  that deals with modern day race issues faded to the background. But it shows just how narrow-minded our powerful movie industry is when it has massive advantages over independent films that show the major racial and class differences that permeate still in our society. (This TWD, stay tuned.)

Saturday Night/Sunday Morning Open Thread for 8/1-2/09: The Miscellaneous

The Sat PM/Sunday PM Miscellaneous Delivery. Amazingly, a seattle bank teller was fired for chasing and apprehending a robber . And yes, that link is from Fox News remarkably. I can't blame Levi Johnston, and Julia O'Malley put it best "People might criticize him and say, "Well, hey, he is trying to get his 15 minutes of fame. If I was him, I would get 15 and an hour and a week and month and a year. Because he did not ask to be put in this situation. This is the cards that was dealt to him. So now what do he do? Go work at McDonalds? So people can ask him, as he makes $8 an hour, "Hey, how's Sarah Palin? How's Bristol?" How much natural gas do we have to replace gasoline the US ? 53 years. Oy If you need Firefox 3.5 to speed up....here you go (through I can't talk about it on the laptop.....since I have Safari). Ugly religious story A US jury has found a man guilty of killing his sick 11-year-old daughter by praying for her recovery rather tha...