What Walt Disney Teaches Us About American Values

Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus, Ryan Gosling and Lindsay Lohan all have one thing in common besides doing crazy things in public that should embarrass them– they all worked for Disney as child stars. Why this should matter after they have been released to their adulthood and bigger and better things than […]

What Warm Bodies teaches us about American Values

The clan went out for a movie last night, and to satisfy all the varied tastes of the clan, we saw Warm Bodies. The blurb about the movie on imdb.com reads: After R (a highly unusual zombie) saves Julie from an attack, the two form a relationship that sets in motion a sequence of events […]

What Matt Damon Teaches Us About American Values

Matt Damon regularly annoys the hell out of me. That is the Matt Damon in real life spouting off his wisdom (because being an actor/writer/producer makes him so much smarter than ME who doesn’t realize that there is a global water shortage even though I do realize our planet is mostly water). Matt Damon–the actor–while […]

American Values – Industry (diligencia)

Jamestown as it may have looked to the Pilgrims Industry, in the context we will be addressing it, according to Mirriam Webster’s Dictionary is: diligence in an employment or pursuit; especially : steady or habitual effort systematic labor especially for some useful purpose or the creation of something of value All Early American colonists struggled. […]