The Sunshine Empire

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The conservative approach to battling the rock star following for Senator Barack Obama has been hap-hazard, and contradictory to the point of absurdity.  Initially, many conservatives began the email whispering campaign insisting that Obama was a secret Muslim.  An Islamic Maxwell Smart if you will.  They stated that since he had an Islamic sounding middle [...]

Neil Postman, in his book Amusing Ourselves To Death, has a conversation about the comparison between Brave New World and 1984. Postman states that after 1984 (the book was written in the mid-’80’s) society patted itself on the back and was relieved that the world did not turn out like that novel.  But the irony [...]

This evening marks the official one year anniversary of the birth of www.thesunshineempire.com.  From September of 2006 until July 1st of 2007 I wrote The Sunshine Empire at sunshineempire.blogspot.com.  Yet in the early part of 2007 while working with an SEO specialist named Josh I was convinced to take the blog out onto my own [...]

I used to think that I over thought The Big Lebowski.  I focused on how the two thugs at the beginning and end of the movie simply swap shirts, and I thought that was a bit overboard, until this.  For true analysis of the messages of the greatest movie of all times, check out Lebowski [...]

Many movies in the Top Ten Movie Countdown have had classic or masterpiece associated with them, yet no other movie compares to the top of the list on our countdown. The seminal classic The Big Lebowski. Lebowski is a fantastic mix of intrigue, comedy, and bowling. This movie inspired me to [...]

Only a select few movies have their posters framed at TSE world headquarters atop the VP Tower, and this cinematic classic is one of them. The James Bond franchise has encompassed almost 22 motion pictures and has made billions worldwide, but the formula for that success began with Goldfinger. Roger Ebert once [...]

As far as pure comedy, there is nothing that matches the sheer talent associated with the preeminent comic movie of the modern era, Ghostbusters. This movie takes all of the talent of the late ’70’s and early ’80’s in terms of writing, directing, and acting and makes it work on a level never accomplished [...]

Some might find it strange or even daft to place a Star Trek sequel in a top ten movie countdown, but Star Trek II is a fantastically dark deep-space epic that has made it’s way into pop culture legend. Even if you deny having watched Star Trek you know the campy and iconic “KHAAAAAAAAAAAAANN” [...]