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December 7, 2009 | Brain Droppings | Commentary on arts, books, culture and entertainment by Ron Rollins, Dayton Daily News
 

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Monday, December 7, 2009

Ah, the year-end Best-Movie lists are flowing in…

Here’s the list from David Denby at The New Yorker, with a few surprise entries, I’d say…

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Chuck Norris will kill you if you don’t read this

Funny blog from The Daily Beast about the Cult of Chuck Norris … funny mostly because it’s so dang straightforwardly deadpan in its own right that it has its own vaguely Norris-like quality…

Speaking of which, who’s your favorite action hero/heroine? Sigourney Weaver still has my vote…

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How often do you talk/text and drive?

So, everybody gives lip service to the fact that they know they shouldn’t fiddle with their phones while they’re driving (how many of today’s fender-benders, really, are purely due to the snow on the roads? we’ll never know)….

Interesting story in the Times today about how the cellphone industry originally marketed specifically around the idea of talking while driving, even despite awareness that it probably wasn’t a good idea…

And of course, we all went right along.

So, ‘fess up: Do you, or don’t you?

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