Hey Flash Gordon Fans! Check out A Tale of Two Movies
I created this website which compares scenes from Universal's first Flash Gordon chapter-serial from 1936, and Fox's futuristic flop Just Imagine from 1930. All viewers are invited to write their comments here on my Northern Border blog.

Charity Alert: The Hunger Site pioneered the "clicks for contributions" concept.

Weather: It's trying to rain today, but the short bursts of wind are also raising dust from fields which should be comprised of barely-thawing mud.

In The Community: Another opening, another show -- Buckaroo, Photographs by Kurt Markus at the Hockaday tomorrow, March 10, 2005. Hockaday Museum of Art

Media Watch: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy started out well -- the client lived in a frathouse-style DUMP, with lousy hair, lousy clothes, etc. The fab Five showed him the way to some good changes, but they themselves messed up badly at the end when they went 'way out of bounds slamming the client's house-guest girlfriend. It wasn't funny, wasn't called for, and thankfully isn't common on this otherwise good TV show.
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris is a challenging book.
Even though Religion (with a capital R) isn't responsible for every evil that afflicts our species, there's more than enough criminality sponsored by these Hydra-headed institutions to completely discredit claims of ethical leadership on their part.
Harris tries to postulate a rational basis for ethics in his book, but he's unfortunately correct in saying it's a "nascent science," at best.