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- suggested that any American who disagrees with his social security or energy policies do so only because they “balk at doing hard work ( Read more... )

So, after hearing about it for several months.  I have finally started reading Baghdad Burning.  Some people probably know this already, but it is a blog written by a mid-twenties Iraqi woman living in occupied Baghdad.  I have gone back to the beginning and am in the process of reading through it chronologically.  Many of the entries make me ( Read more... )

So not all french people hate America. But that doesn't mean they don't hate Bush. The following is an excerpt from an article written on the bicentennial of Tocqueville's birth. Another frenchman, Bernard-Henri Levy, with his take on America.

The Revenge of the Little Man

He can't manage to say "stem cells" without making a mistake. Stumbles ( Read more... )

So, I’ve been doing a little light reading lately, and I gotta tell you, I missed out on some choice morsels in my formative years.  While people were exhausting themselves plodding through the Brontes and Conrad and the like in high school, I was putting equal amounts of energy into avoiding them like they were Billy Ray Cyrus fans.  I just ( Read more... )

I just got Jack Gilbert's NEW book. Those who know me know what this means. I don't wanna infringe on copyrights and all that shit by splashing the whole book all over my journal, but just to give you a little taste ( Read more... )

Thank God TV sucks so hard. The scant worthy offerings on TV allow for so much time to enjoy other things. The fact that TV exists though, has relieved our writer’s of the responsibility of entertaining the masses. Don’t get me wrong, I obviously recognize that some of our fiction machines (Grisham, Clancy, D. Brown) are still targeting the ( Read more... )

I figured out what Bush needs to become an effective President who will work for positive change. Hollywood writers. Oh yeah, and a soul. But one of the two wouldn’t hurt. Maybe a brain too, but the writers can take care of that for him. Those writers on The West Wing are so good (even after the departure of Sorkin) they even make the ( Read more... )

Well, what do you know, once in a while they do stumble on their own self-aggrandizement and actually award those who are deserving…and long overdue. Congratulations to Charlie Kaufman and Brad Bird…and I guess all the other Oscar winners. I haven’t seen Million Dollar Baby or Ray, but I know Jamie Foxx and Morgan Freeman are deserving already ( Read more... )