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...someone with a similar bio-sketch to Maher's - a religious skeptic raised in a middle-class Catholic family - I might be expected to be a devout follower of Religulous. But I can't fully believe in it. Maher and Charles, the director of the Borat movie, should have come up with a rowdier, more penetrating exposé than this one. The film registers decently on the amuse-o-meter, and its offensiveness has a tonic value, but it's deficient in shape, propulsion, urgency. Look at almost any Michael Moore movie, and you'll find the sharp personality...
...There's no question that the kooks give good sound bites, and Void knows there's been enough evil committed in the names of Jesus and Mohammed. Still, I wanted Maher to confront, and be challenged by, the better class of believers: a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, perhaps, or some articulate Episcopalian or Islamist, or comedian and noted Catholic layman Stephen Colbert. Maher seems interested less in conversation than in confrontation, so his movie is less essay than inquisition. Maybe that tone will win Religulous some conversions, but this critic remains a skeptic...
...particular, Rowe said he strongly favored expansion of nuclear and energy efficiency technologies berating other utility companies’ unrelenting commitment to coal as “low-class...
...More importantly, this class of collider is vital to physics research. It has the potential to provide better answers to some of physics’ most niggling questions, like whether a Higgs Boson, the aforementioned “God Particle,” actually exists, or if the four fundamental forces in physics are all really the same force...
Let’s leave aside the echoes of eugenics, the race issues that are inextricably bound up with class here, and LaBruzzo’s arrant disregard for less dramatic measures, such as improving sexual education and access to contraceptives. Forget for a moment that the number of Louisiana welfare recipients has plummeted to four percent of its size since 1990. More alarmingly than all this is the popular response which LaBruzzo’s proposal has received...