Watch this chilling video:

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Why So Much Worship of a Likely Pedophile? WHY?

I've been a bit of an enigma over the last 24 hours, I must admit. I am both sick of the non-stop Michael Jackson coverage, while simultaneously reading and posting about it. It's pretty much inescapable.

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What is it with the Republicans and their desperate need to be heroic martyrs?

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Once upon a time, US popular culture did offer a life-affirming vision: the movies of the 1930s to 1960s. Amid the Great Depression and World War II, many films offered all the things humans crave: hope, beauty, wit, escape, and, often, triumph.

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Have we all taken leave of our senses? The CBC interviewed some lunatic woman who gravely informed us that, with the election of Barack Obama, she now knew that "everything was going to be okay." A sign in the crowd read "First God, then Obama," which was positively restr …

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The Danger of Hero Worship

I suspected it all along, but when I read of the Japanese action-figure of Barack Obama battling Darth Vader with a light saber (posted to my column below), I knew it to be true. We've succumbed to hero worship.

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U.S. President Barack Obama is now available as a tie-wearing action figure battling Darth Vader with a light saber, a Japanese doll maker says.

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When we laud the performance of a player on the sporting field, how much of his misbehaviour off the field are we willing to forgive?

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When we laud a players feats on the playing field, do we also endorses his misbehaviour off the field?

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When we laud a sportsman's feats on the playing field, do we also condone his misbehaviour of the field?

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When we laud a sportsman for his feats on the playing field, are we also condoning is his laudable activities of the field?

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Heroes and Role Models: The People We Admire

I think that it is important to make a distinction between some heroic figures that we value and the role models that have impacted our lives.

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Cinema is an influential entity particularly in countries like where our reel-life heroes are also our real-life heroes. However the latest trend to emerge in is not hero-worshiping as Cinema now has begun representing the current Indian social and political dynamics.

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