Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey in 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Review)

Writer Charlie Kaufman seems to have a hard time dealing with reality. His newest film is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet. As in Kaufman’s earlier films, the sleeper hits Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, a similar formula was used to create disjointed masterpieces of existential confusion and circular logic. Eternal Sunshine is a tale of love gone sour.…

A proposed 2-1/2 cent piece. Graphic created by Mike Tomren.

Rethinking the Penny

A 2-1/2 cent piece for your thoughts? One of my biggest complaints about U.S. currency policy, apart from ‘Big-Headed’ bills and extraneous nickels, is that no one has any plans whatsoever to get rid of the penny. Nearly worthless, the U.S. Mint produces 13 billion pennies a year at a cost of .72 cent per…