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Peter Lorre, Joel Cairo, Sydney Greenstreet, Kasper Gutman

The Joel Cairo Paradox

OpinionBy Al Riley Do you remember Joel Cairo?  He was the conflicted, tragic, and often unwitting antagonist who worked for the mysterious, obsessive, and disloyal character Casper Gutman in the literary and cinema classic The Maltese Falcon.  The myriad characters in Dashiell Hammett’s classic story all have interesting and conflicting[Read More…]

Harris should campaign, Apalachee High School shooting victims

To Save Children’s Lives, Harris Should Campaign on an Assault Weapons Ban

The shooter in Apalachee High School had an “AR-platform-style weapon,” the popular semi-automatic gun all-too-widely available in the U.S., with hundreds of variations flooding the multi-billion dollar gun market. By Amy Goodman andDenis Moynihan School shootings are recurring markers of a societal sickness, an unshakeable acceptance of violence and senseless[Read More…]

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