“Human justice is very prolix, and yet at times quite mediocre; divine justice is more concise and needs no information from the prosecution, no legal papers, no interrogation of witnesses, but makes the guilty one his own informer and helps him with eternity’s memory.”
Søren Kierkegaard, Eighteen Upbuilding
“If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.”
― Healology
Red Joan is a fact-based drama about an elderly British woman (Judi Dench) who's arrested for spying for the KGB during World War II. The development of the atomic bomb is at the center of the story; characters discuss what the power to make such a bomb means, and one watches news footage about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (images of cities in ruins and pale, hairless people suffering radiation poisoning). There are also many scenes that deal with suicide, including one in which one character finds another hanging by his neck: .
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TIME: “Colin Goddard lay in a pool of his own blood, hoping his racing heart would not tip off the approaching gunman that he was still alive. The shooter hovered over Goddard, paused and fired two more bullets into him anyway. Goddard survived the April 16, 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech, which killed 32 people and was the worst school shooting in U.S. history. Twelve years later, he tries not to dwell on the day, but he has dozens of constant reminders: bullet fragments lodged in his body, leaching toxins into his blood.
Like hundreds and possibly thousands of shooting survivors across the country, Goddard, a 33-year-old father of two, is suffering a lesser-known and often unrecognized side effect of gun violence: lead poisoning. When he was shot in his French class that spring day, one bullet pierced his right shoulder cleanly, but three others shattered when they hit his hips and left knee. Because the fragments did not pose life-threatening risks, trauma surgeons left them in his body—a common and widely accepted practice in emergency rooms throughout the United States. Now, with his blood lead levels seven times higher than what is considered safe, Goddard faces long-term health risks, including neurological problems, kidney dysfunction and reproductiv
“If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.”
― Healology
In a picturesque village in England, Joan Stanley (Academy Award (R) winner Dame Judi Dench), lives in contented retirement.
Let SMH Reviewer throw a bomb at the start. I suspect that the reason it took so long to make a film based on the life of Melita Norwood, an English woman who spied for the Soviet Union, is the same reason that it took MI6 so long to uncover the Cambridge spies themselves – a class system that makes it harder to question stereotypes.
British spies, either in real life or film, do not come from the working or even middle classes, and they most certainly do not wear high heels – although Guy Burgess might have been an exception.
Norwood was another exception. Her Latvian father, a printer, had strong leftist beliefs but died when she was six; her mother brought her up with a sense of social justice
IT SSEEMS THAT REDUCING TOXIC MASCULINITY HAS SOME UNFORESEEN SIDE EFFECTS. WHO KNEW?
Millennial dads have pathetic DIY skills compared to baby boomers.
Millennial dads have pathetic DIY skills compared to baby boomers.
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TIME: “Colin Goddard lay in a pool of his own blood, hoping his racing heart would not tip off the approaching gunman that he was still alive. The shooter hovered over Goddard, paused and fired two more bullets into him anyway. Goddard survived the April 16, 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech, which killed 32 people and was the worst school shooting in U.S. history. Twelve years later, he tries not to dwell on the day, but he has dozens of constant reminders: bullet fragments lodged in his body, leaching toxins into his blood.
Like hundreds and possibly thousands of shooting survivors across the country, Goddard, a 33-year-old father of two, is suffering a lesser-known and often unrecognized side effect of gun violence: lead poisoning. When he was shot in his French class that spring day, one bullet pierced his right shoulder cleanly, but three others shattered when they hit his hips and left knee. Because the fragments did not pose life-threatening risks, trauma surgeons left them in his body—a common and widely accepted practice in emergency rooms throughout the United States. Now, with his blood lead levels seven times higher than what is considered safe, Goddard faces long-term health risks, including neurological problems, kidney dysfunction and reproductiv