Author Archives: Bob Evans

Sunday Night Movie: Alien vs Predator: Requiem

Due to the holiday the Sunday Night Movie took place on Monday Night.

I picked up were upgrades to DVD already in my library, but on a whim I picked up Alive vs. Predator; Requiem .

Some months ago a friend of mine and I had stated watching the movie on blu-ray via Netflix, but the disc didn’t work properly and so we only ever saw half of the movie. Last night I watched the entire, unrated, version of the film.

Meh.

It wasn’t horribly stupid or offensive but as a co-worker and friend described it, “that movie’s a teen slasher movie, but with an alien instead of a slasher,’ and I’d say her analysis is fairly on target, Continue reading →

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Marines, The Taliban, and dehumanization in war

So a few days ago a video surfaced where it appeared that four U.S. marines, while be recorded possibly by a fifth Marine, urinated on the corpses of recently killed presumably Taliban fighters. The reaction to the incident has been varies and in many ways thoroughly predictable based upon the political philosophy of the reactive audience.

People have done everything from vocal support for the act to calling for it to be considered a war crime. All of that is of course absurd and nothing more in my opinion than general political tribalism.

I land somewhere in the middle, on the thin isthmus of rational ground between the extremists and partisan on either side. Continue reading →

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The United States Constitution, Living Document or Fixed Meaning?

It is a constant argument, generally between the liberals and the conservatives, as to weather this U.S. Constitution is a living documents, whose meaning is open to interpretation through the filter of changing culture and societal mores, or if it has a fixed and unchanging meaning imparted by the founders. The answer in my opinion is, ‘yes.’ Continue reading →

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Goals for 2012

These are not resolutions in the New Year’s Eve ‘I’m going to promise to utterly change my life, eat right, exercise, and then feel awful when I fail’, but rather SMART goals that I want to achieve in the coming year. Continue reading →

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Why I am so critical of Republicans.

Frequent visitors, who don’t avoid the political postings, will no doubt notice that I tend to more often criticize Republicans politicians over Democratic ones. Such visitor might get the impression that I am more favorably inclined towards the liberal arguments and that such criticism is mostly just attacking ‘the other team.’  This is not the case. Continue reading →

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