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Posted By: DVC, 4/13/2021 7:45:12 PM
The other night, I left the TV on Turner Classic Movies and went to walk the dogs. I came back to find my usually cellphone-centric 14-year-old niece Peilin watching The Heiress, a classic 1949 anti-romantic drama with the elegant language of the Henry James source novel, Washington Square. We watched the rest of the film together, Peilin spellbound by its fundamental mystery. Does handsome suitor Morris Townsend (Montgomery Clift) truly love plain spinster Catherine Sloper (Best Actress Oscar winner Olivia de Havilland), or is he only after her fortune? I observed Peilin’s engrossment with renewed hope for the next generation of American women. It lasted till I saw Kung Fu.
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Kung Fooey
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The other night, I left the TV on Turner Classic Movies and went to walk the dogs. I came back to find my usually cellphone-centric 14-year-old niece Peilin watching The Heiress, a classic 1949 anti-romantic drama with the elegant language of the Henry James source novel, Washington Square. We watched the rest of the film together, Peilin spellbound by its fundamental mystery. Does handsome suitor Morris Townsend (Montgomery Clift) truly love plain spinster Catherine Sloper (Best Actress Oscar winner Olivia de Havilland), or is he only after her fortune? I observed Peilin’s engrossment with renewed hope for the next generation of American women. It lasted till I saw Kung Fu.
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The Left's Idea of a Happy Future
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April 10, 2021
The Left's Idea of a Happy Future
By Jeffrey Folks
Liberals are fond of predicting the future, and their predictions, which are always dire, then become the pretext for more government. Otherwise, they say, we'll all starve, a class war will break out, or the Earth will come to an end.
Liberals are wrong about the future because their theories are based on ideology, not on the facts. Unlike conservatives, whose ideas are grounded on prudence and a clear view of human nature, liberals really have no conception of what drives human beings: their thinking is built on
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I always laughed at the premise of Kung Fu when it was on TV, and never paid much attention. IMO most of these asian martial arts are just silly stuff if you run into a person with a gun.
Two of my shooting buddies back in the 80s and 90s were top class martial arts fighters. Other friends told me that one was a really amazing, and super fierce fighter in full contact matches. Both were top level, I guess black belts.
Both had decided that a handgun decidedly trumps any martial arts, and even a very skilled expert at these asian fighting methods will get his butt kicked by a couple of good street fighting thugs. One had it happen, wound up with a serious hand injury in a fight that required surgical repair. He went to guns for self defense.