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Although a handful of movies had their moment in the spotlight, the 2018 edition of the Sundance Film Festival received bad reviews from many of the Hollywood dealmakers who trudged up the mountains of Park City, Utah, looking to find the next indie sensation. “Awful,” was the frank assessment of one studio executive. “Boring,” was the takeaway of another. “Who are these movies for?” griped an influential distributor. After a week of premieres at the Eccles Theatre and the other makeshift movie palaces that line the snowy resort town, buyers complained that the movies in this year’s lineup were chronically...

A global poll of more than 6.5million people has placed climate change at the very bottom of a long list of priorities, with the finding being consistent across both genders, almost all age ranges, all education levels and in most regions of the world. (h/t Watts Up With That). Conversely, every single demographic placed “a good education” at the top.

May 8 2006 12:01PM Chance of asteroids hitting earth very slim - Russian astronomers ST.PETERSBURG/MOSCOW. May 8 (Interfax) - The chance of a large asteroid hitting our planet in the next 100 years is "extremely slim," astronomer Sergei Smirnov of the Pulkovo Main Observatory told journalists. Smirnov dismissed as unfounded reports that a giant asteroid could strike the Earth in the summer of 2008 and said this is clear from experts' calculations. U.S. astronomers have lately been closely monitoring a large newly discovered asteroid, which they said has a very little chance of colliding with the earth. The odds of...

Secretary of State John Kerry says the Iranian nuclear deal is based on verification, not trust with Iran. “Everybody has a right to be skeptical because there are indications that there are people in Iran who have wanted to pursue a weapons program, Kerry said in an interview aired Sunday on CBS’s "Face the Nation." “That's why we don't take anything at face value. That's why you don't take it for granted.” Asked if he were skeptical whether Iran would actually comply with the signed deal, Kerry said trust wasn’t necessary, and no one was expecting Iran to “turn over...

Democratic National Committee gets new logo, slogan By: James Hohmann September 15, 2010 03:27 PM EDT Eager to bridge a daunting enthusiasm gap, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine recited a list of President Barack Obama’s accomplishments Wednesday to an auditorium packed with George Washington University College Democrats. It came as he unveiled a new web site, a new logo and a new slogan for his party: “Change That Matters.” As he went down a longer list, Kaine spoke passionately of how Democrats delivered an economic stimulus (he would only call it “the Recovery Act”) and “the Affordable Care Act”...

Clark Clifford, a veteran Washington insider and, by all accounts, a very smart fellow, once called President Reagan “an amiable dunce”. That was pretty much the Left’s take on the Gipper throughout his eight years in The White House. They cringed at his depiction of The Soviet Union as “The Evil Empire”. They smiled at his naïveté when he stood in Berlin and forcefully said, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” They gnashed their teeth when he ignored large European demonstrations and began deployment of Pershing II and Cruise missiles on that continent. Yet, somehow, the Dunce prevailed. The Evil...

It began when ol’ Dubya gave Al Gore the boot, Those gun-hating Dems really started to shoot. Their weapons of choice though leave much to desire For they’re usually off-target and so often misfire. In his blustering barrages, as everyone knows, Al Gore is most likely to blow off his own nose. And in hitting his targets, Teddy’s chances are slimmer He’s no better at bombast than he was as a swimmer. John Kerry took aim at Bush’s war in Iraq But salvoes from Swiftees left him smoking black. Daschle went to Dakota with all barrels loaded; When the smoke...

The Inadvertently Correct award goes to KOIN (CBS) affiliate’s Dave Erickson for noticing that footage of a Guernsey with mad cow disease was not the correct graphic to accompany a story about Potland, that is Portland, Mayor Vera “Darth Vader” Katz. Erickson’s award plaque, which is a bathroom tile bas relief of Walter Cronkite frowning at Rudy Giuliani for restricting the rights of muggers in Central Park, will have crossed silver oscilloscope probes....(Snip) The Radio Logic award for 2003 goes to the unnamed local newscaster who pointed out that Oregon’s high unemployment rate was due to a lack of jobs....

There was something wonderfully strained about how various media organisations dealt last week with the news of the deaths of Qusay and Uday Hussein. From the BBC to Reuters, there was palpable — if sternly repressed — dismay. One of the first headlines that the Ba’athist Broadcasting Corporation put out on the news was: “US celebrates ‘good’ Iraq news”. The quotation marks around “good” did not refer to any quote or source in the text. They were pure editorialising on behalf of the BBC, whose campaign to undermine the liberation of Iraq is now in full swing. It was not...

N A T I O N How Dean Is Winning The Web The Democrat's ability to win fans and raise cash online has taken his party by surprise By CHRIS TAYLOR/SAN RAFAEL Monday, Jul. 14, 2003 Howard Dean is hardly what you would call a high-tech guru. The former Vermont Governor, whose trademark look is a blue shirt with rolled-up sleeves, is a mostly gadget-free zone. He does not carry a BlackBerry email pager or tablet PC (he leaves those to his aides). And don't expect to find Dean, 54, surfing the Web for hours at home. "I kind of...

If you go to Ann Coulter's book "Treason" on Amazon.com it is being DUed. (or is that PUed?). Anyone who has read it, please give her a good review. She doesn't deserve this.

CELEBRITY SOAPBOXING by Lin Anderson The recently-wrapped war in Iraq has produced few absolute certainties. We have, for example, little knowledge yet of what sort of government will be instituted there in the coming months -- except the strong suspicion that there won't be a whole lot of statues built for the people heading that government. We are also presently in the dark about the full extent of Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction. Come to think of it, we're even unsure about whether Saddam himself has been Mass Destructed. But one very important thing we have conclusively learned from the...