I have to start this review with the fact that everyone said not to bother seeing it; that the new Sex and the City was not as good as the first one and it’s a flop. So, after seeing it, I did go look at some of the reviews and shook my head in wonderment. If you have a man review a picture made purely for women (ok, and gay men), then you will never get an understanding of the ...read more
So, here is the 411 on what happened. Al Snyder’s son died in Iraq in May 2006. Members of the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church picketed his son Matthew’s funeral, with signs reading things like “Thank God for Dead Gay Soldiers.” So, the young man’s father went to court and got a $5,000,000 settlement. The church appealed the settlement based on their right to free speech and won. So, the long and the short of it is that Matthew’s father was ordered ...read more
Pat Robertson and Haiti
I understand that I’m an opinionated person who sometimes can’t see another point of view. I think we are all held hostage by the movie running in our heads about what we think about this and that. It doesn’t offer commercial interruptions from others who might hold a different point of view. I try very hard to “seek to understand, rather than to be understood,” and rarely get there. But then there are times when I am actually baffled by ...read more