God, No! is a collection rants, some of which are about being an atheist, and many of which appear to be random blog posts about nothing in particular. Being a rich and famous guy, he talks a lot about hanging out with other rich and famous folks, and mentions many times that one of the benefits of being rich and famous is having a lot of naked women wander in and out of his life. He’s also very fond of repeating himself, which kind of works in standup comedy, but gets old pretty fast on the printed page. Penn Jillette…
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Made in Dagenham
Among the Coming Attractions on the DVD of The King’s Speech was the trailer for Made in Dagenham. It looked like my kind of film, an underdog story, a cute British cast, and good old Bob Hoskins. I grew up in the 1970s with no father to speak of, a working mother, and an older sister who was quite taken with the women’s liberation movement. It is a bit shocking to see that male chauvinism and outright sexual discrimination was still going strong in 1968. For some reason I thought that whole Suffragette thing would have fixed this problem as…