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The Psychopathic Chicken (and Other Lessons of Evolution)

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2008-08-27 16:40:48 by Editor in Culture Snob
...morality through the lens of evolution But before we get to the morality of chickens, let's provide a little context Wilson, a distinguished professor of biology and anthropology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York, is one of the primary advocates for an interdisciplinary application of the principles of evolution the idea that...
 
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The Psychopathic Chicken (and Other Lessons of Evolution)

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2008-08-27 16:40:48 by Editor in Culture Snob
...morality through the lens of evolution But before we get to the morality of chickens, let's provide a little context Wilson, a distinguished professor of biology and anthropology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York, is one of the primary advocates for an interdisciplinary application of the principles of evolution the idea that...
 
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A Brief Thought On Hillary And Politics

2008-08-27 13:27:14 by Editor in The Watchtower of Destruction: The Ferrett's Journal
 
...morality, but when your morality can affect whole communities who don't have other choices to go to, that's not a personal morality, it's a public morality. Sorry, guys A guy who, mind you, I support But I'm not a woman!" Ha ha. Even so, having more women-supporting men in positions of power is still a good thing
 
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MOVIE REVIEW: The Happening (2008)

2008-06-17 05:26:00 by John Kenneth Muir in John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV
 
...morality. Not his moralizing, mind you, but his morality. And by that, I mean simply that he presents a moral universe where a family unit of some type is forced to countenance with... a happening, for lack of a better word. Sometimes the family unit is "unofficial" (not biological); but there's always a parental figure and a child (or young...
 
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6/20: Bullets Over Broadway

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2008-06-20 22:31:00 by Ed Howard in Only The Cinema
...morality to the extent that when they pose the question of being able to save either the works of Shakespeare or an "anonymous" person from a burning building, both of them choose the plays without hesitation. Woody viciously mocks the self-serving moral rationalizations of these self-declared artists, who deign to place themselves above the...
 
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Eastern Promises (2007) - David Cronenbergs EASTERN PROMISES is a strong and powerfully mounted drama that revels in the directors trademark esoteric

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2007-10-07 17:38:11 by craiger in Craiger's Cinema Corner
...morality parable, whereas EASTERN PROMISES has more expansive settings and personas: its located atypically outside of Cronenbergs main filming stomping grounds and marks the first time he has shot a film outside of Canada (it its case, England) and it features the Russian mob. However, the film also deals with subtle issues of honor,...
 
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One Brilliant Ball Of Fire

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2007-10-30 14:00:20 by Kim Morgan in Sunset Gun
...morality (if morality really matters) -- she's both a victim of her time and nobody's fool. Stanwyck, always game, dived right into the scintillating material with her special brand of plucky, hard-boiled sex appeal; she's likable, awful and totally understandable all at once Forty Guns (1957 By the 1950s, Barbara Stanwyck had aged into a...
 
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Contemplating Babel in many tongues and voices

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2007-01-17 10:25:00 by adrian chan in Reviews and analysis of significant films and movies, on dvd and in theaters
...morality (suggested); without morality, no moral. Guilt creates the possibility of justice, justice, the possibility of the holster (enforcement This cinematic field is strong and will always be strong, for its logic is as simple as it gets, and clear at the same time. The crime is defined by the social body against which it is committed,...
 
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THE SLIFR TOP 11 (+ 10) 2007 YEAR IN REVIEW

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2008-01-08 04:56:00 by Dennis Cozzalio in Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule
...morality of law and order was allegedly more clear-cut, but a time far more akin to our own1980, to be precisewhere the sheriff has to come face to face with the kind of perplexing, unstoppable evil that has driven him to the brink of exhaustion and resignation, an evil hardly exclusive to this time Ed Toms instance on the level of crime...
 
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