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The Truman Show (Important Films Part 1)

Anonymousteenager's Blog | December 23rd 2009

Yesterday I mentioned that I have to start doing more interesting posts. Funnily enough, I came up with one today! I just watched The Truman Show on Film4 and it was great. It was the first time I’d seen it. I’d heard about it before but read more

Worm-Grunting: Luring Earthworms Out Of The Ground (VIDEO)

Terms of Health | December 22nd 2009 by angel

Exploitative mimicry is the term for pretending you’re something you’re not for personal gain. One example of exploitative mimicry is called “worm grunting.” Worm farmers drive wooden dowels into soil, then rub grooved metal a read more

Christmas No 1

Sands of Thyme | December 22nd 2009

I love Christmas, it's great, it's a time of the year to think about friends and loved ones and try and spread a little cheer, yes, you buy gifts for people so it's always a lucrative time of the year for retailers.... but there is something that is read more

Timothy the Cat Rescued! After being found Glued to a Minnesota…

NoName247 | December 20th 2009 by Richard Chemel

Exposing cruelty to animals is something that gets my ire up and not since the cat was duct taped a few months ago, has any exploitative animal cruelty come to light....until now.  A couple was driving on a Minnesota highway, and saw a cat, they tho read more

Social media magics with Homeless Mustard

Social media reloaded | December 20th 2009 by Laurent François

Citizens!Opie & Anthony show brodcast this cover of Radiohead "Creep" famous song. It traveled all over the social web.Here's a quick summary:"It’s demeaning and horrible and cruel and exploitative, although any of those words can generally be read more

Love and use in the sexual relationship

love undefiled | December 20th 2009 by Robert

"The sexual relationship, presents more opportunities than most other activities for treating a person, sometimes without even realizing it- as an object of use." (Karol Wojtyla, Love and Responsibility, p30). It is possible for sex to be consensual read more

Head-On (Gegen die Wand) [2004]

Cinemascope | December 19th 2009 by Shubhajit

The epithets that might closely define Fatih Akin’s Head-On are, in my opinion, grimy, brooding and bare-assed. Akin completely stripped off any sugar-coatings while displaying human frailties and loneliness at their rawest and most naked – both read more

My Calendar Boy

The Beacon | December 19th 2009 by Haley Hughes

Isn't Mr. September handsome? That's my boy! (And my photo, too!) My copies of the 2010 BARC (Bernese Auction Rescue Coalition) calendar showed up in the mail this week. Very excited! Thor is my BARC rescue. I took this photo back in 2007, and s read more

You Will Be Shocked To Learn The Lingerie Football League Is Not…

Deadspin | December 18th 2009 by Mark Watson

The Smoking Gun has revealed the Lingerie Football League to be a cheap, exploitative outfit that behaves goonishly toward its own athletes, which is acceptable in America only if you're the NFL. The Smoking Gun got its hands on a letter from one of read more

My complaint about ghosts caught on tape

complain letters | December 17th 2009 by psychic test

Maybe I’m naturally oversensitive, or maybe someone just slipped me decaf coffee this morning, but ghosts caught on tape opinions have proven to be a complete disaster in both theory and practice. Let me cut to the chase: I have a dream that my read more

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