Posted on July 5 at 7:33 p.m. (Suggest removal)

To be honest, I don't care a whit about the sex lives of our politicians. However, as Mr. DiNicola correctly points out, it is the hypocrisy of many of them that is so galling.

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Posted on June 21 at 11:10 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Letterman's writing staff made a huge goof and Palin seized the chance to put herself back into the limelight.

On Critic at Large: Whatever you think of Palin, Letterman was out of line

Posted on May 24 at 9:39 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Great column! We really do have a love/hate relationship with guns in this country.

On Critic at large: We need to reflect on role of guns in American tradition

Posted on May 3 at 10:50 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Parents should cut this column out of the newspaper and give it to their sons and daughters.

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Posted on December 14 at 9:13 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Mr. DiNicola may have missed the point on this one. This movie is so wildly popular with audiences because it demonstrates that true love endures, even during times of great adversity.

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Posted on November 23 at 10:46 p.m. (Suggest removal)

This was such an enormously interesting movie. The juxtaposition of the innocent children, the women who acquiesced in the evil, the men who participated out of duty and the men who savored it was fascinating.

By the way, I hope Dan DiNicola is back writing his wonderful reviews soon. I missed his column today.

On Boyhood innocence, evil combine for powerful punch

Posted on October 12 at 10:39 p.m. (Suggest removal)

It would be fine if religion actually did serve as an "opiate", as a way to help humankind endure the seemingly unbearable. However, religion seems also to be a catalyst for evil behavior, such as what happened on 9/11, the Holocaust, in Kosovo and in the case of numerous other atrocities.

On Critic at Large: Maher aims to show Marx’s thinking wasn’t so ‘Religulous’

Posted on September 28 at 3:55 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Artists are often the vanguards of social change. But sadly, gay people still do not have the same rights as the rest of us.

This is a well-written and interesting column.

On Critic at Large: Finally, we’re escaping days of gays staying in closet