DWD's Reviews: Crunchy Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture .

Neat idea but bad follow through

I grabbed Crunchy Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots on impulse as I was going the local purveyor ofbooks. You see, I am a "Crunchy Con" of sorts, being an avid recycler.But, this book really failed to make me. In fact, I felt like I wasbeing preached at with certain topics being outright hammered into myskull due to their repetitive re-occurrence.

Etan Thomas: Waiting for "Superman": It's Time to Act

We are a state at war, and if we suffer this war, our country is in serious danger. But we're not talk around the war in Afghanistan, we're talking around the war going on hera in our country, the war of education.In the new documentary Waiting for "Superman" we get an up close look at the field through the eyes of 5 young kids, who along with their parents, are in a battle to get a train that can provide them a quality education.

Movie Review: "Waiting for Superman"

Davis Guggenheim's "Waiting for Dot" is a documentary, not a funny book film. But for many parents, I give a notion it may run like a horror movie.

The film details the complete bankruptcy of the American public schooling system, in which inner city schools are called "drop out factories," bad teachers are unacceptable to fire, and the country's students place 26th in interpretation and science.