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Saturday, March 01, 2003
THIS IS "MR. SHORT-TERM MEMORY"? Bought "Road to Perdition" this week. Excellent movie. Tom Hanks hasn't made a bad movie in the past five years...although I wasn't a big fan of either "Castaway" or "You've Got Mail". The overall tone of the movie reminded me of "American Beauty", kind of dark and atonal. Later on, I realized that the music was done by the same composer as "American Beauty". Maybe that's why. It's a movie about loyalty, revenge, and wanting something better for your children. About how a decent man can do bad things for good reasons. You'll see (if you haven't already). I *very very highly* recommend this one. If I had three arms, I'd give it three thumbs up. Since I don't, I'll have to settle for two. Friday, February 28, 2003
AIN'T THAT THE TRUTH? "History always repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, and the second as farce." --Karl Marx Wednesday, February 26, 2003
IT'S NOT OFTEN... ...that I agree with George Will, but in this column I think he makes a very valid point. But some clarity can be achieved by understanding that America has become for many Europeans what Jews were for centuries. From medieval times until 1945, Jews often were considered the embodiment of sinister forces, the focus of discontents, the all-purpose explanation of disappointments. Now America is all those things.He continues: The curdled arrogance of some European elites, and especially of those clinging to a status that they sense is eroding, was displayed last Monday in Jacques Chirac's dressing-down of Eastern European leaders who support U.S. policy. Speaking of them with the disdain of a duke deploring bad manners among the servants below stairs, Chirac said they were guilty of "not well brought up behavior" -- something like using the fish fork during the salad course -- and that "they missed a good opportunity to keep quiet" because several are still applicants for membership in the European Union.I find it puzzling how anti-war advocates can villify the United States, but yet give dictators such as Saddam & Slobodan Milosevic a free hand. Is it "moral bankrupcy" as some have claimed, or is it simply that they are, as stated by Lenin, "useful idiots"? War is a bad thing, but sometimes it is necessary. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. --Edmund Burke (1729-1797)...but then, variety is the spice of life, and dissent is the American Way. For some Europeans, (anti-)Americanism is the EU Way. Monday, February 24, 2003
HOPE Hope is such a fickle mistress. In fact, sometimes she's a cruel bitch. She'll dangle the carrot from the stick just out of your reach, egging you on long after you should have gotten wise to her game. I'm starting to think that Hope remained in Pandora's Box not by choice; she was just too slow to escape. But she's a bitch you can't seem to stay away from. Time after time, you find yourself sitting at her feet, hoping to catch her attention, gain her favor. Just a word. A glance. A name. Anything. Because living with the disappointments is better than living without her. |
