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Of course it's easy for me to enjoy since they are so obviously heavily influenced by The Atheist Experience. :) Already from what I've heard they've covered fictional atheists (one of my favorite topics), drawn from TV tropes, referenced Ken Follett, and constantly joked about technical problems. Nobody does that last one but us, right?...
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We need more shows like yours. We definitely need a show like this here in the UK, and I would love to see a French speaking equivalent in my native Québec.ReplyDelete
Nice! This is good stuff, not as good as TAE though :)ReplyDelete
Oh, and about fictional atheists: of course the French existentialists made a bunch of their heroes existentialists (Meursault, Roquentin, etc.), even their theist heroes were anti-theists (Oreste in Sartre's Les Mouches for instance), but in a more mainstream form, the Tv series Babylon 5 had many atheist characters, whose atheism was depicted in a positive light. Here in the UK we had back in the nineties the crime drama Cracker, with Robbie Coltrane as the atheist lead.ReplyDelete
Well, you know, that goes without saying of course. ;) Raw experience works wonders, though.
Watch the credits all the way to the end...ReplyDelete
I'm glad to see other shows popping up (and I'm glad to see we're not the only ones with audio problems). :)
Nice job. Maybe we can pool our resources and buy TBN...
We have resources?!?!?ReplyDelete
Neat. It's about time other people started doing it.ReplyDelete
I listened to the whole show and loved it.ReplyDelete
great to see more shows like this!ReplyDelete
I like them, they are new and so are not as good as the great experience you have of course, but I will be keeping my eye out for that one.
I like them. You folks are way more handsome, though.ReplyDelete
I haven't watch it all, but it is quality stuff, although it is obvious they don't have the same experience as you guys.ReplyDelete
This is my first post here. I've been reading this blog for a while. As a result I feel a lot less lonely in my journey of intellectual exploration, which started after I left a fundamentalist christian religious organization almost seven years ago. The exploration is gaining momentum as a consequence of my graduate studies. Thanks, guys.ReplyDelete
I really enjoyed this new Ask an Atheist show, particularly the part where the gentleman talks about "full frontal nerdity" . I think that nerds rock.
I should also add that I am an avid watcher of the Atheist experience show. Keep up the good work.
Glad you guys liked it! We had a great time working on it. With time and more experience, we hope to be as rad as you all.ReplyDelete
As for the theme of the show, I debated for a long time whether I should mention my favorite fictional atheist, Humbert Humbert. I decided he was maybe not the best guy to represent us, though.
(This is the same Libbie, obviously...this is my pen name. Don't be confused.)
Much thanks for the props, guys!ReplyDelete
I can't tell you how much the Atheist Experience has inspired our project. The producers, the crew and the hosts are all big fans of your show and we'e thrilled that you guys have been so incredibly cool about us taking up your baton in the Seattle area.
If any of you are ever in the Seattle area, consider it an opn invitation to appear as a guest.
There's another one just started called the League of Reason, it's on right before AETV and last week they got over 1500 live viewers at one point. Impressive.ReplyDelete
One thing I noticed from the 1st show is that you got no calls from rabid theists. It would be interesting to see how you handle calls like the one asking how we can take a shower without being electrocuted.ReplyDelete
Maybe with more exposure you'll start to get those.
I feel we are missing one of the best examples of atheism in fiction: Jean Luc Picard.ReplyDelete
This is a guy who runs into MULTIPLE beings that claim godhood and treats them as petty annoyances. Then of course is the episode where an alien cargo cult starts up centring around him and he has to break it up. Awesome.
Ben sisko MIGHT count seeing as how he not only met the closest thing in the trek universe to God but punched him right in the face.
Who the hell would ever call a public access or Internet atheist show?ReplyDelete
I mean, really.
Will have to check these guys out, thanks for posting the clip.ReplyDelete
BTW, just finished watching ep 660 of AE and was disappointed that your most interesting caller, liberal Christian John from Austin, only got a few minutes...I do hope he calls back earlier next time so you can have a more deeper discussion...
Also, nice smackdown of the ID guy, but seemed like you let him talk in circles a few too many times.
It's great to see another show like the AE and I enjoyed this very much. Dare I hope that with its smaller degree of popularity right now it will get more religious crackpot callers than the AE does these days?ReplyDelete
If I may add a little constructive criticism, it felt like both moderators were burning through their material a bit too fast. But I'm sure you will get through the teething problems and I'm excited to see more episodes.
holy cow! A show right in my backyard, and I find out about it via an abscure houston public access channel blog post.ReplyDelete
I'm so bad at engaging in the local atheist groups, but to be fair, the only group I know of gets together on thursday nights which is difficult since I already have social gathering on thursday nights that isn't compatible.
I was really disappointed with how little activity I was finding locally, considering how irreligious my area is. I guess I just wasn't looking very hard. It appears I wasn't looking hard enough.
I want links, damn it! Because I'm lazy!
To all at Ask an Atheist; great first show, looking forward to many more.ReplyDelete
To all at The Atheist Experience: keep up the good work.
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Now we need someone on the East Coast to do it as well!ReplyDelete
Wait, y'all are Atheists? Y'all don't believe in nuthin?ReplyDelete
Sarcasm off.
The day will come. Good luck and great show!
They don't seem jaded yet. It won't take long, I think.
Matt sez:ReplyDelete
"Watch the credits all the way to the end..."
That's GoatRopers, right?
About atheists in fiction, I think there are a fair number, although they might not be in mainstream American TV series and movies. Literature certainly gave us many of them (I mentioned some before). Anybody saw Clouzot's Le Corbeau? Dr. Germain, the hero, is an atheist, he is not a very cheerful character but has strong moral ethos, while the believers are pictured as fearful hypocrits, sometimes very cynical (one of the characters says that he goes to Mass not because he is faithful but because he is careful, for instance, basically taking Pascal's Wager).ReplyDelete
Good start! Will no doubt get better with time.ReplyDelete
"Now we need someone on the East Coast to do it as well!"ReplyDelete
Yes we do! We have a large group of individuals in the DC area with CFI and Beltway Atheists making up just some of the groups.
I would love to assist anyone working on such a project or maybe break out of my shyness and start something.
Libbie and Mike, are there any plans on making a podcast of your episodes? That's how I get my Atheist Experience and Non Prophets fix (or at least I did before the hiatus). I looked on iTunes, but didn't see it.ReplyDelete
Anyways, I live up in Snohomish, so 'hi'. It's great to have a local group doing this.
East Coast atheists?ReplyDelete
Yes, there is an mp3 of the first episode on our official Facebook page. It should be up on our main site, www.askanatheist.tv soon as well.
I, for one, welcome our freethinking, anti-authoritarian overlords.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the link, Russell. I just finished watching the show and enjoyed it.ReplyDelete
"Watch the credits all the way to the end..."
- Matt D.
Goat ropers from Austin? I'd be afraid of getting gouged by horns or head-butted.
Thanks for the show, Libbie H.. Give my regards to Mike. I hope you master the equipment so that future shows don't have audio feedback issues and that the volume on the callers can be raised.
Awesome first show. A few volume issues on the callers, but great all around. It's not like AE is glitch-free after having over 600 episodes anyway... I will be looking forward to more episodes.ReplyDelete
Hey Mike... are you a troper? Aside from the atheists in fiction examples, I'm pretty sure I caught you casually dropping a few Conversational Tropes... TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Vocabulary, you know. ;p
I liked the mentions of The Wire, as I am a big fan of the show (and Omar is such a great character).ReplyDelete
And I read Earthly Powers a while ago, I have to admit I didn't like it all that much. I didn't remember there was an atheist character in it. Atheism was as far as we know a very rare thing during the Middle Ages, close to inexistent.
It's great to see another show like this out there, and also that it's in my state. I love having 2 shows to watch every week!ReplyDelete
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GREEN BAY — Famine one week, feast the next. Veteran receiver James Jones has learned not to worry about going hungry while playing for Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers.
After being targeted just twice in the season opener last week at San Francisco, Jones recorded two career bests vs. Washington on Sunday, hauling in 11 catches for 178 yards.
The seventh-year pro wouldn't call it his best game, though.
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Jones came close when he tried to punch in the ball over the end zone plane in the second quarter. He lost the handle at the last second and fumbled it on top of the pylon.
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Jones also decided to have a little fun with his teammates with a special accessory for all of them and assistant coach Edgar Bennett: hats.
The hats aren't Jordy Nelson's style. They look as if they'd be worn by someone in a music video and not someone like him, who works on his family farm in the off-season. They have "Wideout" and "Nelson" written in heavy, bejeweled, mirrored letters about the size of the HOLLYWOOD sign.
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"I scored two touchdowns! I don't have to," Nelson said, grinning.
With a running game to balance them out, Green Bay's big three — Jones, Nelson and Randall Cobb — took the hot hand of Rodgers and scorched Washington with a combined 372 receiving yards and three touchdowns.
"Jordy was the touchdown maker today; me and Randall had yards," said Jones. "It's a good thing to have, man, when you've got a lot of weapons. You can't really slow us down."
Washington's defense will not have fun reviewing this game film Monday, especially if they thought Jones would be a small factor. Just as he said last week, Jones wasn't worried about the goose egg in Week 1.
"It's a long season, man," said Jones. "One game, zero catches means nothing. Our quarterback is trying to get everybody the ball. He's trying to win; we're trying to win. You're going to have days like this and days like that.
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Recently I have read a few good news stories of mums and dads being reunited with their children after periods of time in which their children have been withdrawn from them and refusing to see them. In each of these stories I have read about how those children have been alienated and how reuniting in this way is a story of overcoming the poisonous acts of the other parent/the family courts/other people who have caused children to be alienated. I have no doubt that in some of these cases, some or all of those factors have been at play, but reading these stories, I cannot help but feel vaguely anxious about the way in which the term parental alienation is so freely and easily used as the reason why children enter into periods of withdrawal from a parent after separation.
Parental alienation in my experience is a rare phenomenon and in its pure form, as it was described by Gardener in 1985 is even rarer. I have myself probably only seen around five cases of pure or severe alienation in which the reason for the rejection by the child was solely caused by one parent acting in a determined and conscious manner to eradicate the other parent from a child's life. More commonly I have seen and worked with what are called hybrid case of alienation, which were first described by researchers Johnson and Kelly and which have, at their heart, patterns of behaviours which create a double bind for a child who becomes captured in the unresolved conflict between two adults and sometimes two family systems. The pure cases are the easiest to spot and treat and hybrids the more complex and difficult to deal with. It is important in my view, that the use of the term parental alienation, in describing a child's rejection is accurate and based in reality. Only then can a definitive prognosis be given and a treatment route set out. Sadly, for some, although this matching of analysis to treatment is done carefully and with the knowledge that this can release the child, the desire to carry on the projection of blame onto the other parent remains so strong that only the term parental alienation in its pure meaning, will do. This is the result of a determined and fixated view that the other parent is wrong and the 'alienated' parent is right. It serves no purpose other than to hold the child in the same dynamic that created the withdrawal and it causes endless entrenched refusal in the child. This is when it is not parental alienation and this is why it is important to understand that.
Children are most at risk of alignment and rejection between the ages of 8-14 years old, when their personality organisation is underway and when they are at their most indignant and self righteous as they go through developing their own identity. Children in this category will often naturally align themselves to one or other parent even when the family lives together and when the family separates, this alignment can become exacerbated by the difficulties that surround the child, particularly if one or the other side of their family is hostile in any way. Transitions, moving between two sides of the family can become intolerably painful for some children who will, eventually, begin a process of withdrawal. Unfortunately this withdrawal is often accompanied by excuses and 'reasons' put forward by the child, for why they no longer like going to mum or dads. Most children are at risk of this after separation but children who are sensitive, bright, clever and attuned to other people's feelings are more so. Similarly, if children have been very close to a parent who is then pushed into the role of secondary parent through the implementation of the lone parent model of support to families (one parents is the carer and the other the provider) then that parent becomes very much at risk of becoming the rejected parent.
But not all rejection is alienation. A child can only be said to be purely alienated if she is unable to be in the vicinity of a rejected parent and demonstrates phobic like reactions. A child can only be purely or severely alienated if there are a set of conditions in place which demonstrate that all of the signs of alienation listed by Gardener are present and active. Thus, a child must show the following behaviours to be considered severely alienated.
Denigration of the rejected parent – name calling, hostility, relentless hatred
Use of borrowed scenarios – telling people about things that the child could not possibly remember themselves
Reflexive and repeated support of the aligned parent – that parent is wholly good and perfect
Independent thinker syndrome – an insistence that they and only they are responsible for their thoughts and feelings
Spread to the wider family – as if the whole family system is infected
No ambivalence – hatred is cold, clear and unequivocal
No guilt or shame – treatment of the rejected parent is cruel and without normal feelings of conscience
Weak and absurd reasons for rejection – ranging from 'he made me go to bed at 7.30pm to she makes me do my homework'
Many children will show one or two of these behaviours but will not show the others, similarly, many parents will show behaviours linked to alienation but not all of them. These cases, which cannot be categorised as alienation, are those which are on the alienation spectrum and could, as a result, become alienation. These are also the cases which are not alienation but which are often pushed along the spectrum into alienation due to the parent who perceives rejection becoming frustrated, angry and upset.
Children who find transitions between their parents difficult will show a range of behaviours which demonstrate that they are not coping well. These children will, often well before they finally withdraw from a parent, give signs that they are not coping. Children who become angry, resentful, tearful, dramatic, cold on arrival, distant on departure, are those who are not coping with transitions between their parents. Children not coping with transitions will often want their other parent to rescue them and will 'play off' parents against each other in order to cope with their anxious feelings. When this kind of reaction sets in, if you are the parent who perceives rejection, what you do next can be the difference between helping your child to cope and pushing your child into full rejection of you. Its not your fault, when your child is showing an alienation reaction its extremely difficult to know what to do but whatever you do, it has to be done carefully, attentively and gently. You have to keep love in your heart and patience in your actions, children who begin to show these signs are telling you that they cannot cope with the psychological space between you and their other parent and, most significantly, what is filling that space. Chances are, what is filling that space is mild to moderate negativity which spikes now and then and disappears for a time. This will be related to how you and your child's other parent relate to each other and whether there are external issues impacting upon you both. If you watch your child's reactions, keeping a diary if you can, you will see that when things are tough in the space in between your child's behaviour will become more problematic, when things are calm and quiet, their behaviour subsides and disappears. Children in these circumstances are like super powerful emotional weather vanes, it doesn't take much to swing them round to stormy or back again to calm.
One of the biggest issues we come across at the Family Separation Clinic is the problem of the parent who has decided or been told that their child is being alienated. These parents come to us, often from father's rights forums, telling us that their child has been alienated and they need help to deal with that. Given that alienation is a rare phenomenon which can take a lot of painstaking months to raise in the court process, this kind of presentation is very difficult to deal with. How does one introduce the notion, for example, that a parent has contributed to the child's rejecting position, especially when they have already been told that their child has definitely been alienated and should be treated. The truth of the matter is it is a very difficult road to unpick and help to resolve a child's rejection when it is not alienation which has caused it but the tangle between two parents determined to enact their rights and get their own way over the care and control of children. Yes, many many dads suffer the horrible and cruel experience of being pushed out of their child's life on a day to day basis and yes, many dads do experience a sort of hybrid alienation but not all children who decide that they can no longer cope with the toxicity between parents are alienated. Some withdraw until the storm passes, which can take time if two adults are intent on prolonging the problems between them, some soldier on, withdrawing only when it really gets impossible. Understanding where your children are and taking the emotional temperature of the weather between you and your child's other parent is a much faster way of improving things for your child than becoming fixated on a self given diagnosis of parental alienation and refusing to let go of that come what may.
But some parents are indeed alienators and where those alienators exist you will find conditions which are fairly similar although of course each case of alienation has its own typifications. Alienators act in ways that are designed to make you and not they the ones who are scrutinised and you and not they the recipient of blame. Alienators will often try to convince the world (and you) that you are mad/bad/dangerous to know and will sweetly smile and be ever so co-operative whilst all the while ensuring that they are setting you up for a fall. Alienators are clever, cruel and often very very cold people without empathy, but they understand other people, especially you, very very well. When an alienator has you in their sights you must be careful because what they are most skilled at doing is throwing attention onto you. If you wriggle and squirm and jump with fury like a worm on a hook when an alienator has you at their mercy you will soon be swallowed alive. Alienators look for people they can manage and manipulate. In order to know an alienator you have to know yourself very very well indeed because knowing yourself better than the alienator is to be able to protect yourself when they come fishing for your soul.
But there is an accompanying player on the alienation scene, this is the parent who, whilst fervently declaring that they are alienated, is busy projecting blame onto the other parent in order to make them appear to be the alienator. This is a controversial concept I know but it is one which, in our work with families where children reject a parent, we must take into consideration if we are to get the treatment route right for the child involved. The double bluffing alienating parent is one who simply cannot or will not accept that their child is withdrawing because of things that they have done as well as what the other parent has contributed, this parent will stick fast with their blame projection, seeing nothing whatsoever wrong in their own behaviour which in fact can be one of the major contributions to a child's withdrawal.
And herein lies the problem of Gardener's original concept of parental alienation and the way in which it is widely used by many parents who face children's rejection. In this world there HAS to be a determined, conscious and wicked alienating parent and a blameless, innocent parent who has done nothing at all to cause the dynamic which has created the situation. As Professor Bala from Queen's University in Ontario Canada repeatedly states however – 'It is very rare that Hitler marries Mother Theresa….' and yet that is the concept that we come up against time and again in the field that we work in where hybrid cases are so much more common than the very rare phenomenon which is pure or severe alienation.
I understand why so many parents who face rejection want it to be about the other parent being wicked and conscious of what they are doing. It is painful enough to face a child's withdrawal, to have to accept some responsibility for that too is like scalding an already open wound. But it is this acceptance, when a child is captured in conflicted dynamics, which has to be achieved if change is to come. In our work with families, we take parents back to the original dynamic between them, educating, informing and supporting them to understand their own contribution and helping them to change. This is undertaken in many ways, through coaching, counselling, psycho-education and by increasing the confidence of a parent to arrive at the place we know will make a difference to children, acceptance and withdrawal of cross projected blame and a refocus upon the parent/child relationship. In a hybrid case, this is the only way that the complex tangled web of emotions can be untangled and, if achieved, with time and patience, the prognosis for reunification, repair and restoration of a normal relationship is very good indeed.
I have been watching reports of reunification recently and the comments that go with them with interest. It is clear to me that for some parents, the passage of time, the emergence from the danger zone years of 8-14 and the maturing child's emotional and psychological self brings the necessary changes that lead to a child looking for their lost parent. Whilst these children have been captured on the alienation spectrum however, it is highly unlikely that they were purely alienated in the first place but rather that they were captured in an impossible double bind that caused them to withdraw. The difference? A purely or severely alienated child could take well over two decades to reach a point where they seek out the lost parent and it remains unlikely that they will do so without help. Similarly, purely or severely alienated children are noticeable by the ongoing mental health problems that they are likely to face, the broken relationships left behind them and the narcissistic tendencies that they are likely to display. If your child returns to you in late teens or early twenties and has been gone less than ten years, it is highly unlikely that they were purely or severely alienated and thank heavens for it. If you are there when they return and well and healthy and able to focus on what they need and not the reasons for their rejection in the first place, you will both be onto a winning streak in which your lives as you could and should have continued them, can now fall back into step.
Alienation is a complicated and deeply concerning reaction and in its pure or severest form there are usually personality disorders behind it and other worrying child protection issues. The rarity of the issue when it presents in this form is why it is so vital to understand that not all withdrawal is alienation and the difference in treatment routes that are required to resolve it.
If you face a severe alienation situation you are not going to resolve that through therapy, through adjusting your own behaviour, through waiting or being patient. The only true remedy in a pure or severe case is removal and when that occurs, the miracle of the phobic, howling, terrified, vicious, lying and fantasy dwelling child who turns back into their normal self, can be seen to occur. But these are rare cases, so rare that I have only seen a handful in my work in this field and when I do see them I know them without a shadow of a doubt. Children in these circumstances are, in my opinion, being terribly abused emotionally and psychologically and liberating them from this is an absolute priority. Parental alienation, in this form is horrendous to witness and very different in many ways to the hybrid cases which are far less dramatic and far less easy to resolve.
If your practitioner tells you that your case is that of a hybrid reaction it lies in your own hands with the help of your therapist and other support workers to deal with your own behaviour first and then the dynamic between you and your child's other parent. This is the biggest ask of all for all parents facing rejection but it is the swiftest, cleanest and most healing route to repair of your relationship with your child. Taking on this concept when you are the one being rejected is a herculean task but take it on you must. Recognising the difference between pure and severe and hybrid alienation is the first step. Understanding the difference is the next. And all of those who campaign about and discuss parental alienation will do the people that they work with a great big favour by doing the same.


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Joy mixes with disappointment as 28 of 57 convicted in Chiapas remain in prison.
MEXICO CITY, November 6 (CDN) — More than 35 mainly evangelical Christian prisoners unjustly accused in the December 1997 massacre in Acteal, Chiapas had hoped they would be released from jail this week, but after long deliberations the Supreme Court of Mexico on Wednesday (Nov. 4) ruled only nine should be freed and ordered new trials for 16 others.
The high court thus ended its involvement in the controversy over the ordeal of the peasant laborers, ordering the release of the nine men – without declaring them innocent – and retrials for 16 others, this time without "invented" evidence and testimony. Those 16 men, plus several others including six who had previously been granted retrials, remain in prison.
In a 4-1 vote, the court ruled the federal attorney general violated legal process, fabricated evidence and false testimonies, formulated non-existent crimes and provided no concrete argument establishing culpability of the nine men.
Supreme Court Justice José Ramón Cossío Diaz said the decision to free the men was not a declaration of innocence but recognition of "a lack of impugning evidence" against them in the Dec. 22, 1997 massacre, in which 45 people were killed, including women and children.
"These Indians were condemned and declared guilty as a result of a trial that was plagued with violations," Cossío Diaz said, according to El Universal. "No material proving their guilt exists."
When prisoners convicted in the Acteal slayings learned that only nine were being released, they reportedly wept – some for joy, but most from disappointment.
"Everything was invented – I did not kill anyone," one of the evangelical Christians released, 45-year old Manuel Luna Perez, told Proceso magazine. "Many of our companions [in jail] also know nothing about who planned the massacre."
The court ruled that federal authorities had used "invented proofs and witnesses" in convicting the men, many of them evangelical Christians supportive of the then-ruling party who had land disputes and other conflicts with their accusers – mainly Roman Catholics sympathetic to the rebel Zapatista National Liberation Army.
At least five of the nine men released were known to be evangelical Christians when they were rounded up 12 years ago: Pablo Perez Perez, Emilio Gomez Luna, Juan Gomez Perez, Hilario Guzman Luna, and Manuel Luna Perez. Also released were Mariano Diaz Chicario, Pedro Lopez Lopez, Juan Hernandez Perez and Ignacio Gomez Gutierrez.
The nine were released from El Amate federal prison in Cintalapa, Chiapas yesterday and transported to Tuxtla where they are temporarily housed.
"There must have been about 200 to 250 people who made the trip [to the prison] – many were spouses and family members anxious to see the men," said a Compass source in Chiapas. "As per the previous occasion, the people waited patiently outside the prison for the men to be released, only to be disappointed because they were not allowed to speak with them when they left the prison. The men were put in a mini-bus and taken to where they will be housed under government supervision for the next couple of weeks."
The relatives and others traveled on to the men's temporary quarters in Tuxtla, where they were able to meet with them, and several of the ex-prisoners' spouses and other family members are staying with them there, the source said.
The freed men said the government has offered them what it promised 20 prisoners released on Aug. 13, the source said: farmland, help with building houses, water, electricity and other basic amenities, as well as helping them monetarily until they become self-supporting.
An attorney representing 31 defendants in the case, Jose Antonio Caballero, reportedly expressed disappointment that the high court didn't free more of those accused. But the attorney told EFE news service that the ruling would help remedy some of the mistakes in the legal process.
In the case of the 16 men to be given new trials, the high court ruled there was sufficient evidence for prosecution to retry them in a lower court in Chiapas. This time, the Supreme Court ruled, the lower court will not take into consideration any of the fabricated evidence or false testimonies, and the charges of use of military weapons and carrying a gun without a license are dropped.
On Aug. 12 the high court ordered the release of the first 20 prisoners (freed the next day), for the same reasons the nine men were released yesterday. All the freed men, mostly evangelical believers who insisted on their innocence, had been sentenced to 25 years and had already served nearly 12.
The most recent group was to have been freed on Oct. 28, but the Chiapas government led by Gov. Juan Sabines requested extra time to present "new proofs which demonstrate the probable responsibility of previous state and federal public officials, as well as civilians" in the massacre, according to La Jornada. Over the years, lawyers have insisted that the men were tried without access to interpreters or legal defenders acquainted with their indigenous culture and customs, as required by Mexican law.
For the past several weeks, families of the condemned men had set up a form of tent protest in the central plaza of Mexico City, attempting to call attention to the plight of their husbands, fathers, brothers and cousins.
With this week's decision and the decision on Aug. 12, the court has ordered the release of 29 of the total 57 prisoners and retrials for 22 others accused in the Acteal massacre. Those 22 plus six others remain in prison.
Controversy over who killed the 45 people has revolved around whether there was a "massacre" by numerous "paramilitary" villagers or a "confrontation" between a handful of neighboring peasants and Zapatista National Liberation Army rebels. Historian Héctor Aguilar Camín has argued that there was both a confrontation and a massacre, with some overlap between each, but that they were largely separate incidents.
Five confessed killers have testified that they and four others engaged only Zapatista militia to avenge the death of a relative, while the federal attorney general's office charged that at least 50 pro-government "paramilitaries" descended on a relief camp hermitage full of displaced peasants bent on killing and robbing them. The testimonies of the five confessed killers – four others remain at large – agree that the nine avengers were the only ones involved in the firefights, and that the decision to attack the Zapatistas was a private family decision made with no involvement from government authorities.
They also agree that the sole motive was to avenge the assassination of a relative – the latest of 18 unprosecuted murders by Zapatistas over the previous three months, according to Aguilar Camín.
Government prosecutors unduly dismissed much of the testimony of the five confessed avengers, Aguilar Camín wrote in a 2007 article for Nexos, noting that the killers testified that state security forces were nearby and did nothing. He highlighted the judicial irregularities of the round-up and conviction of the peasants – apprehensions without evidence or warrant, charging 83 people with homicide when only 45 people were killed and lack of translators and attorneys for the suspects, Tzotzil Mayans who did not know Spanish.
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Jan 17 2013
I recently concluded an official trip to the Middle East, where I visited Israel and Afghanistan along with four of my Senate colleagues. The purpose of the trip was to meet with military and political leaders to discuss the many challenges facing our allies and troops in the region.
We began the visit in Israel by meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his office in Jerusalem. There, we discussed the importance of maintaining the historic ties between our two nations and focused on the array of threats Israel faces within the broader Middle East.
The Prime Minister also expressed his growing concern regarding Iran, which is aggressively working to expand its nuclear capabilities. He encouraged the United States to remain active in working with the international community to prevent the hostile regime in Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
It was clear that Prime Minister Netanyahu is a strong leader who loves his country, and I appreciated the opportunity to meet him and reaffirm our nation's support for Israel. Later that day, we met with representatives from the Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency. The Mossad works closely with its American counterparts to combat terror around the world, so it was very helpful to hear their perspective on growing global threats.
Next, we traveled to Kabul, Afghanistan, where we met with General John Allen, the Commander of the International Security Assistance Force. We were briefed on the progress made since the surge of troops in 2009. Despite improvements in conditions, the nation is still volatile and the gains we have made are reversible.
During our time in Afghanistan, my colleagues and I participated in several intelligence briefings. We also traveled to Camp Eggers, a military base in Kabul where we met with top military leaders to discuss NATO's progress in training Afghan security forces. We visited Camp Integrity, Bagram Air Force Base, and traveled to Forward Operation Base Shank. There, we met with a number of troops and I had the pleasure of having dinner with Nebraska service-members.
Meeting with Nebraskans overseas was certainly a highlight of the trip. It was a privilege to shake their hands and thank them – on behalf of all Nebraskans – for their service. I hope Nebraskans will keep them – and all of our troops – in their prayers.
Finally, we met with several top military commanders to discuss transition and reduction of U.S. troop levels. The President has yet to determine his precise strategy for transitioning the U.S. mission away from combat operations to a reduced role that focuses on assisting Afghan security forces and conducting limited counter-terrorism operations. Based on my visit, I believe a carefully managed troop drawdown is workable over the next few years and I look forward to reviewing the President's plan.
While I share the desire of many Nebraskans to bring American soldiers home quickly, many brave Americans have laid down their lives and the United States has committed vast resources to build a free and stable Afghanistan. Moreover, it's important to remember why the United States invaded Afghanistan in the first place. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 led to Operation Enduring Freedom, a military operation launched to defeat al-Qaeda and the Taliban government that provided them with safe harbor. Over a decade later, ensuring that Afghanistan cannot be used again as a sanctuary from which to attack the United States remains a critical national security priority.
As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, it was essential for me to see first-hand the status of our mission in Afghanistan. And as I mentioned, it was also important for me to meet with our deployed men and women in uniform to thank them for their selfless service. I left Afghanistan impressed with the accomplishments of our soldiers and more hopeful for a positive outcome for our mission in the region.
Please keep our troops in your prayers, and I'll visit with you again next week.
Deb Fischer
United States Senator
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Today's Music: Leogun – Let's Be Friends
Note on Today's Music: Saw these guys open at a concert this week. Good set! I hope you like them.
Huzzah! A pretty good week. The snowstorm they threatened us with wasn't quite as bad as they said, and spring is close, and I saw Vintage Trouble put on a great show, AND I had a great meal and scintillating conversation with TMWGITU and Becky, AND of course, I got to read blogs! Here's some of what I saw.
A Frank Angle got brilliantly philosophical On Time. Benzeknees wrote a very moving, important post titled Obesity, but there's so much more there, and I stood and applauded her after I read.
Also, Scarp's son has a future as in photography!
And in vanity news, I received two awards – Edweird Whatspur (long one of the most prolific, entertaining and readable bloggers I've met) gave me a Shine On Award! And Cayman Thorn (who I've enjoyed reading since he was in diapers) bestowed a Versatile Blogger Award on Guapola! Check them both out, and all the other great bloggers they name!
Thanks to them, and all of you, for a fantastic week of reads, no matter how hung over I am!
So after some words about Leonard Cohen, the Friday Foolishness turned it's roving eye to another singer of disputed skill in last week's poll. And y'all had some…interesting…thoughts about it. Here's what you said. (As always, my comments are nasal and incomprehensible in italics)
Will do gently into that good night. B_T
(Is that a 60's drug reference?)
*GO gently …B_T
(Ah, from the Annotated Bob Dylan Thomas.)
Is that Bob Dylan? If so, I'd ask if he knows his metal eye stalks are showing Live Clay
(Yep, they're just blowin' in the wind…)
Will ever stop asking me how many roads I've walked down. (Eric Murtaugh)
(I think that's just because he can't find his way home.)
does a Seth McFarlane impersonation
(Only if Seth has a killer sinus infection.)
… is an alien in hiding. Michelle
(Worst. Disguise. Ever.)
If he ever gathers any moss… Michelle
(Only when he's ready to smoke it…)
Is ever going to learn to sing. Michelle
(Why start now?)
I wonder about Bob Dylan – John Phillips
(Robert Allen Zimmerman wonders about him too…)
Knows how many roads a man must walk down before he's really a man in drag? – Hotspur
would appreciate my husband's man-crush on him. The Waiting
(Without your husbands love, he's a complete unknown…)
..suffers from Englebert Humperdink envy? zannyro. zannyro
(He's a Liberace fan. It's a candlabra thing…)
Another good songwriter, but should never have learned to sing. Benzeknees
(Pretty sure he never did…)
if the answer is blowing on the soup? linda vernon
(It was. Now it's doing the backstroke. Waiter!!!)
… could do children's books on tape… pmao
(No. But they've hired him to do announcements for mass transit!)
even cares. (Elyse 54.5)
(He cares about all sorts of things! No one can understand him to know which ones, but still…)
really did coach vocals to Tom Petty and Lou Reed ~Miss R
(I hope they kept the receipt!)
could teach me how to "Dougie" – Scarp
(He learned everything he knows from Michelle Obama.)
will lend me his hat (or at least tell me who his millner is)…
(He'll tell you. But you should really ask him to write it down.)
has taught anyone else to speak his language? (polysyllabic)
(He taught the CIA. They're using it as an unbreakable code.)
can untangle my blues while giving me shelter from the storm. sandylikeabeach
still is. (Stacy)
(Actually, I think he's a Buddhist named Reginald Sumner this week…)
(Anyone catch the mashup? Anyone?)
will see this poll. And vote. WG
(He regularly contributes here. At least, that's what I'm blaming the incomprehensible posts on.))
Knows how it feels to be on his own. GingerSnaapped
(Not sure. But I bet sometimes he feels just like a woman!)
offers subtitles in english so he can be understood (SnB)
(He does, but only at his Japan shows.)
Rutabaga: has a membership to Costco
(The revolution will be discounted!)
Will be the next Oscar's host. (Frank)
(Is a joke funnier if you can't understand what you missed?)
knows Jackson C Frank is better? Joehoover
(Pete Seeger think they both suck eggs.)
Congratulations to sandylikeabeach for this weeks winning answer! And from the offered choices, the most popular was a tie between Is ever going to learn to speak English and Any of the below, so congratulations to all you pickers out there!
This week, the poll goes to the Mediterranean! Rather. it asks what you would do near the Mediterranean, specifically, in Rome. So answer soon, and answer often, just answer by 2359, 14 March, because that's when this one ends. But don't answer in Italian, because if my spam comments are any indication, google translate isn't that great.
(And if you write in an "Other answer, leave a way to identify you and I'll link to you next week.)
And to finish off this edition of the Foolishness (though I hope your own foolishnesses live on in your hearts), enjoy these.
First, stol- borrowed from the delightful Alex Autin:
And finally, in the never ending quest to bring even more class to the blog, enjoy The Reduced Shakespeare Company.
Have a great week, y'all. If you need me, I'll be at my desk waiting for the weekend…


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The Terran Insterstellar Marine Force is the toughest branch of the Unified Earth Military Command. In their storied 200 year history as the infantry arm of the Terran Expeditionary Fleet, the Leathernecks had battled the feral xenomorphs of Rigil Kentaurus, stormed the asteroid fortresses of the Void Pirates and eradicated an uprising of the savage native Vrish who threatened the Pleiades Colony. But they had never faced a foe like the Fyr'Toll
Background: It is the year 2268 and mankind is locked in a bitter war of extermination with the Fyr`Toll, a frightening, inhuman blend of man and machine. Their first attacks came without warning and decimated the most powerful nations on Earth. The United States of Africa, the Indian Conglomerate, the Pan-American League and the Asian Coalition all lie in ruins.
Earth refused to surrender and after a desperate first year of conflict, managed to match the Fyr`Toll's technological advantages through a series of daring boarding actions, capturing and reverse engineering enemy vessels. Once parity was achieved however, the war seemed to drag on indefinitely and has just entered its 25th year.
On a deep-space survey mission thought to be far away from the front lines, the player characters served on the UASS Johannesburg, searching out resources vital to the war effort. It is then they run across a Fyr`Toll survey ship, the Kra`Tep. After a brief, vicious firefight, both vessels crash on an uncharted planet below.
Two enemies, stranded on one planet on the edge of space. Neither able to overcome the planet's natural magnetic field to call for help and watching as a fast-growing jungle constantly threatens to overrun their ruined vessels, as predators kill their crew one by one.
After several firefights, their numbers dwindling, the captain of the Kra`Tep meets with the senior surviving officer of the Johannesburg and suggests the two sides join forces to get free of the deadly planet. When the pact is announced, approximately 25% of the humans and Fyr`Toll strike out on their own, unable to overcome the hatred each feels for the other.
These attack each other, the opposing side and even their fellows, all in an attempt to "convince" them that cooperation with their worst enemy is pointless at best, dangerous at worst.
A game of exploration: This is the campaign of "stranded on a different star". A hostile alien world must be explored and possibly tamed, at first for simple survival but eventually with the monumental task of pooling resources for a return voyage.
A game of character interaction: But the planet isn't the only challenge players in the game will face. Can they manage to hold their unstable coalition together and overcome the hatred bred by decades of war? Can they bring their dissidents back into the fold?
A game of discovery: And even when the planet has been explored, there are mysteries left to solve. What about the planet hinders technology? What secrets wait to be discovered in alien ruins? And how closely will each side honor their agreements? If a powerful alien weapon is discovered, will its secrets be shared or will the discovering side try to hide it for return to their side in the war above.
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My nephew, actor Lamman Rucker was in Barbados last week and was the talk of the town. Several local news outlets and blogs noted his arrival. Nationnews.com did a nice write up on him. Check it out.
He also did a nice video for Amtrak's Black History month series "My Black Journey."
Lamman Rucker's Great Migration Story from MYBLACK JOURNEY on Vimeo.
*Editors note. Lamman mentions in the video that Ebenezer worked for the New York Amsterdam News. He actually spent most of his years in Harlem at the New York Age, the rival Harlem paper at the time. Of course, since this is a continuing journey and we don't know the whole story, I can't say definitively that he never worked for the Amsterdam News.


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I always protest a little too much when I say that I'm not really all that interested in historical archaeology. It is true, the Anatolian/Aegean Neolithic still holds me firmly in thrall. It's more that historical archaeology draws me in a little too much, I get a little too obsessive about the documentary history and the amount of crazy detail you can find about who owned the land when, what kind of forks they used, who manufactured the forks, and oh did you know that the forks were sold by a tinker in Kent at the same time? My enthusiasm for ephemera and marginalia kicks in and it all gets to be a little bit too much.
Needless to say, 100 Minories has a long historical background and I got a chance to skim the surface during my last week on the project, looking through fantastic sites like Spitalfields Life for information about the area surrounding the site. On a chance search for information about the Navigation School that was once held in the Brutalist 1960s on the site I found information about a much earlier school of navigation that was once held on the site.
Come closer, my friend.
In 1707, one of the worst maritime disasters claimed famed Rear Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell, who lost several ships at sea in the Isles of Scilly with over 1,400 men on board. They were lost in stormy weather, unable to calculate their position. The British parliament's reaction to this horrible loss of life was to create a Board of Longitude in the Longitude Act of 1714. They created a prize ranging from 10,000 to 20,000 pounds to discover a 'practicable and useful' way to determine longitude at sea.*
Born in Wolsingham, County Durham on May 13th, 1804, Janet's brilliance was perceived early and she received a national scholarship to attend Queen Charlotte's school in Ampthill, Bedfordshire. She married a George Taylor Jane, had eight children and lived her life near the Thames docks. By then she was an established author of nautical treatises and textbooks, and established her own Nautical Academy not far from the Tower of London. 104 Minories, in fact.
In 1834 Janet Taylor invented the Mariner's Calculator, a device that enabled the finding 'the true Time','the true Altitude', 'the true Azimuth', 'Latitude by double Latitudes and elapsed Time', among many other applications. Sadly, after testing at sea, the instrument was determined to be too delicate for the 'clumsy fingers of seamen' noted to be like 'sausages' so it was not widely adopted. Still she received gold medals of recognition for her contributions to the maritime community by the king of Prussia, the king of Holland and even by the Pope. After the death of her husband she put into dire financial straits, and was given a Civil List pension of £50 per year.
When I mentioned all of this to Guy Hunt, he was excited. It is very possible that the First Lady of Navigation had conducted her Nautical Academy on the site and it is equally possible that when we go to full excavation that we'll find building foundations and rubbish dumps that could possibly be associated with the trade at the time. The thought is made even more tempting by a single artifact, unremarkable at the time–we found a pair of compass dividers on site.
So, on a day dedicated to women in technology, this post is devoted to the only woman in the 2,200 entries in The Mathematical Practitioners of Hanoverian England 1714-1840, Mrs. Janet Taylor. Happy Ada Lovelace day!
*This post heavily references John S. Croucher and Rosalind F. Croucher's Mrs Janet Taylor's 'Mariner's Caluclator': assessment and reassessment in The British Journal for the History of Science, 44:4, 493-507. I understand that there is a longer book coming out by the Crouchers regarding Mrs. Janet Taylor, which I look forward to reading!


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WinCheck is dubbed as potentially unwanted program that serves a number of advertisements when installed on the computer. In some instances, the adware also provides search hijacker, inline text, banners, pop-up ads, and drop-down ads. In general, WinCheck is an ad-driven code or browser extension that was spread to gain profit from online users.
WinCheck aims to enhance web browsing experience by providing a number of features, tools, and contents. It offers toolbars, search enhancement, comparable deals, ratings, and reviews. Some may take WinCheck as a useful program, but quite a number of computer users prefer to remove WinCheck due to irregularities it causes when installed on the computer.
Normally, WinCheck spreads in conjunction with a number of freeware and shareware apps. It is also packed with another adware and usually uses pay-per-install scheme to reach target computer. WinCheck may not be as harmful as Trojans and viruses but this adware can be too risky when not removed from the computer.
WinCheck is a browser feature that may monitor web browsing habit of user. It can log certain activities which help the developers to further enhance the program. However, some sensitive data may also be exposed once the adware begins to collect information from the computer. In addition, adware that is packed with WinCheck can be damaging when not deleted from the system.
How to Remove WinCheck
Step 1 : Use Add/Remove program of Windows to Uninstall WinCheck
The main cause of adware and malware presence could be software that you may have installed on the computer. We need to uninstall the culprit program.
1. Click Windows Start button. Next, select Control Panel from the list.
2. Find the 'Programs' area and click on Uninstall a program. This opens up a window showing existing software installed.
3. Look for and remove WinCheck entry. If not present, look for any suspicious labels that was installed recently.
4. Click on Uninstall to start removing the program.
Step 2: Scan and Delete Adware with AdwCleaner
1. Download the tool called AdwCleaner from the location stated below.
Click here to download AdwCleaner (this will open a new window)
2. Once you have completed the download, please close all running programs on the computer.
3. Locate the file and double-click on adwcleaner_Ver.exe to start running the tool. Then, click on Scan button.
4. It searches for presence of harmful programs, plug-ins, add-ons, or any data that were found malicious and linked to WinCheck. You need to Clean all items detected by this tool.
5. Once scan is done, the tool may need to reboot your computer to finalize the cleaning process.
6. After reboot, AdwCleaner will display the log file of the recent scan.
Step 3: Remove Adware Add-on and Cleanup the Browser
After the previous scans, you may have deleted WinCheck from the affected browser. This next step will ensure that no more module of adware will be left on the browser. This free tool scans and checks the browser for unwanted add-on and extension, and if found, Avast Browser Cleanup will give you a report and suggestion.
1. Download this free tool and save it to your desktop.
Avast Browser Cleanup Download Link (This will open in a new window)
2. Please install the program. Start the process by double-clicking on the executable file avast-browser-cleanup-sfx.exe.
3. When run, Avast Browser Cleanup performs a test on the browser. If unwanted entries were found, it will display a button 'Remove all add-ons listed below and cleanup browser.' You may remove all or delete one entry at a time.
4. Avast Browser Cleanup will confirm before it permanently deletes the add-on. Please click Yes to proceed with the removal of WinCheck on the affected browser.
Step 4: Reset Internet Browser to completely remove WinCheck
Cleaning your internet browser from clutter and unwanted add-on/extension is a must when dealing with WinCheck. The procedure below discuss on resetting various browsers to its default state.
Restore Google Chrome to Default Settings
Resetting Google Chrome to default settings is helpful in deleting hard-to-remove extension such as from WinCheck. This method is highly advisable to perform if you have difficulty in removing unwanted extension.
1. Open Google Chrome Internet browser.
2. Click on the Menu (three-bar icon) located on the upper right side corner of the browser.
3. From the pull-down menu, click on Settings.
4. Once your are on chrome://settings/ tab, click on 'Advanced' at the bottom of the window.
5. Navigate to the bottom of the page and click on Reset settings to their original defaults button.
6. Close the existing tab and restart Google Chrome. That should have removed WinCheck extension.
Reset Mozilla Firefox to Default
This section describes how to remove unwanted extension from Firefox that may be related to WinCheck.. This process can fix many browser issues by restoring Firefox to factory settings without affecting your essential information (bookmarks, browsing history, passwords, and Internet cookies) on the browser. If you desire to remove only specific extension, please see manual removal of add-on from Firefox.
1. Navigate to Firefox menu at the top of the browser and access the Help area. Click on Troubleshooting Information.
2. A new tab will appear. You will notice a section on upper-right corner of the screen stating Give Firefox a tuneup. Click the Refresh Firefox button.
3. If confirmation window appears, click Refresh Firefox to continue.
4. Firefox browser will close and start the resetting process. When done, it will display a list of restored data. WinCheck should be gone by now. Click Finish to open a fresh version of Firefox.
Restore Internet Explorer to Default Settings
1. Open Internet Explorer and navigate to top menu. Click Tools, and then Internet Options.
2. Select Advanced tab on Internet Options window.
3. On lower part of the window, under Reset Internet Explorer Settings area, click the Reset button. Please see image for reference.
Your data like favorites, bookmark, and history will remain in the browser. However, this process may delete add-ons by WinCheck and other unknown objects. If you prefer to carry out the procedure manually, please add-on removal from Internet Explorer.


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Thanks, Jessica & Randy, for the idea for this post! Please go to Jessica's Genejournal Blog and read How Many Times Have My Ancestors Been Married? to see what Jessica discovered or to Randy Seaver's Genea-Musings Blog to read
Frequently Married Ancestors
June 25, 2008 by wendylittrell
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Hey Wendy:
What great discoveries! And cool last name – AMORE. Thanks for your wonderful advice! I am excited about starting this formal search into my family's past. Hopefully we can stay in touch. Just a heads up, I am now hosting my blog on my own domain.
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Last Sunday we posted a recipe for Pecan Pie, here's a delicious variation on the theme from Geila Hocherman's Kosher Revolution (page 170):
Every so often I get a pecan pie urge, for me, means I need to make one. On one such occasion I discovered I didn't have the corn syrup, the traditional sweetener. The serendipitous replacement was maple syrup, which adds its own great flavor as well as sweetness. I also found a store-bought frozen pie shell – my standard go-to when making this, especially when its part of a big-deal holiday menu. Feel free, of course, to make your own crust, but a bought shell works beautifully here and saves toons of time. Using chopped and whole pecans adds textual interest.
Convert It
To make this dairy, use unsalted butter in place of Margarine
- One 9-inch frozen pie crust
- 1 1/2 cups pecan, 1 cup coarsely chopped, the remaining whole
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 1 cup pure maple syrup
- 3/4 cup packed light sugar
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 3 tablespoons margarine, melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Preheat the oven to 350 F
- Cover a cookie sheet with foil and place the pie crust in it. Spread the chopped nuts over the crust and arrange the whole nuts on top. Set Aside.
- In a medium bowl combine the flour, syrup, sugars, eggs, margarine and vanilla. Stir to blend and pour over the nuts. Bake until the filling is set and slightly puffed, about 60 minutes. Transfer to to a rack to cool before serving.
Easy to make and superb tasting… who can ask for anything more? Enjoy, gentle reader, enjoy!


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From This American Life:
Everyone knows that politics is now so divided in our country that not only do the 2 sides disagree on the solutions to the country's problems, they don't even agree on what the problems are. It's 2 versions of the world in collision. This week we hear from people who've seen this infect their personal lives. They've lost friends. They've become estranged from family members. A special pre-election episode of our show.
Listen to the episode here.
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- Ideology Shaping Situation of Vice Versa
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- Naive Cynicism
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'Beast' is a monstrous Gothic romance
If there's any hope of loving a heroine harboring a past that includes ramming a scissor into the chest of her teenage tormentor, you'd better hope she's played by an actress as transfixing as Jessie Buckley. But she's hardly the only reason to experience the intoxicating depravity of Michael Pearce's thrilling Gothic romance "Beast." There's also the smoldering sexuality of her hunky hunk of burning love co-star Johnny Flynn.
Together, they torch the screen with the kind of forbidden amour between a sheltered rich girl and the blue-collar dude from across the tracks you've seen dozens of times before. But this time it manages to feel gloriously different because the two leads are awash in dark secrets, including the possibility that one -- or both -- of them are the serial killer who's been preying on the young girls of their quaint hamlet on the secluded isle of Jersey.
That's the overt mystery at play, but the one that sucks you in is solving the riddle of who Buckley's Moll and Flynn's Pascal really are once you get past the assumptions and outward appearances. And Pearce, in his directorial debut, has a ball torturing us with steadily building intrigue, as we futilely attempt to sort out what's what. Even in the gripping finale, when (almost) all is revealed you're still working overtime fitting all the pieces of the puzzle.
What's clear is that the twisty story would not work nearly as well as it does without an actress as charismatic as Buckley, making the most of what should be a breakout performance. From the moment you first spot her residing under that mop of fiery red hair, singing in a choir directed by her domineering mother (Vanessa Redgrave clone Geraldine James), you're drawn to her offbeat loveliness. Even more so after the night of Moll's birthday party, when the 27-year-old ducks out after being upstaged for the umpteenth time by her priggish older sister, Polly (Shannon Tarbet).
She heads to the isle's hottest night spot, picks up a dude that practically has "danger" stamped across his forehead and winds up nearly being raped on the nearby beach. What saves her is a well-tossed rock by local rabbit poacher, Pascal. He shoos the emasculated offender away and immediately sweeps Moll off her feet. It's unbelievably romantic, a death-defying meeting right out of "Wuthering Heights." And it's a tone Pearce deftly sets throughout -- even when doubt and suspicion creep into Moll's mind regarding a man who indeed may be too good to be true.
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He loses a bit of that momentum down the stretch, but not enough to pull you out of a trance he's created by marrying ingenuity with old-fashioned horror tropes. It may not rewrite the genre, but it sure as heck feels fresh and rewarding. Pearce is equally adept at taking a setting as gorgeous as Jersey and lacing it with menacing air that suggests paradise is not immune from the grotesque.
More than that, he has Buckley, an actress able to project a seemingly contradictory combination of fragility and strength, and then use it to optimum effect. Her Moll may look wounded and sad, but deep down, it's clear she's a woman you don't want to mess with, especially when she's ticked. And after spending 100 nail-biting minutes in her company, you'll know that whenever she comes around, it's best to hide the scissors.


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