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[30 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]

Dutch brewer creates beer that’s 60 percent alcohol. Incidentally, travel to the Netherlands spikes.
Anti-Defamation League agrees that bowing to religious bigots is not only wrong but goes against the founding principles of our nations, but thinks we should go ahead and do it anyway because we might hurt someone’s feelings.
Taliban says it will target all names mentioned in the WikiLeaks document. Also swears its Canadian girlfriend is WAY hot.
GOP filibusters bill that would cut taxes. Did I wake up in Bizarro World?

Featured, Movies »

[30 Jul 2010 | 5 Comments | ]

As summer winds down to August, all those movies that studios either couldn’t make sense of or otherwise couldn’t cut it get unleashed on the public. Consequently August is a kind of limbo; most of the releases have the hallmark of a blockbuster but aren’t quite “award season” material. They’re somewhere in between. As with February, some serious gems can slip in under the radar. But there’s a lot of chaff to get through to find that wheat.
Bureau Chiefs Dorian Wright and Ken Lowery take a look at the upcoming …