Evil, Talk Radio and assorted crap

[greatgenghost]

So, the Virginia Tech story just keeps circulating around my office. This week we started talking about whether or not the shooter was EVIL. Was he in control of himself? At what point do you attribute this behavior to mental illness and at what point is it just aberrant and evil behavior? Well... he fired over 170 shots. The weapons he used have

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[mentalwasteland]

On Flash Gordon -- I believe that the 1980 movie followed the original serial fairly closely, with the exceptions of the deliberate camp, and making Flash a dumb football jock.

On PKD -- I think that the problem is that most of his stories have a neat interesting plot device, usually dealing with personality, identity, or time paradoxes. But the stories themselves are subtle and deal with personal interactions on a deep level. The neat twists are easy to put on screen. The rest... not so easy. So they take the low road and toss everything but the twists.