First off, brilliant article.

Secondly:

The Clinton warmonger machine is now, and has since its inception been stooping to the same gutter level of Cheney and Rumsfeld and Bolton.

Senator Clinton wrapped herself as tightly in the flag as any neo-con pounding her fist loudly for war; her "I love war too" tough-guy act was working like a charm until her utterly reckless role model George W. screwed the pooch.

Now that her sickening romp to power has been aborted by, well, truth for one, and voters for another, she's unleashed her Arkansas man on the competition. He knows how to hint and how to wink. Just like he did Sister Soulja and Jesse, he's now doing Obama. And it aint Farakhan Bill Clinton keeps hinting at, it's more Malcolm X. They're making the "threat" more real, dangerous.

Interesting, really, how Clinton is playing her hand. She just can't seem to shake the urge to be like W. Which is why she'll loose, badly. Either now, or in Novemeber. That outta stain up the Clinton legacy real good, with all God fearing Americans, blue and red.

Yeah, Rogge doesn't think China's internal political affairs need to be addressed. Reminds one of how Germany's internal political affairs didn't need addressing in 36. Until they did.

Now, how does that relates to W? Well, W. makes ol' Chamberlain look like Stalin. It damn near makes one wish old dumb-ass W. knew how brilliant a last minute boycott would be--both strategically, and economically. If he did, he might not go down as being the worstest "decider" of em all. Fucking shame, really.

One thing far worse than Farve's predictable indecision is articles in April about anything NFL related.

Both the Royals and Marlins are in first place. The Tigers and Yankees are in last place. Keep your head on a swivel and get in the game, Kaufman. It's God damn baseball season!

Hey Joan - thanks for the useless, poorly written article about you being the arbiter of what is relevant. Now take your pseudo "working class" ass to the bank and cash that blood money check from the Air Force.

PS - thanks for ruining Salon.com

Say for Janusz Kamimski and Lance Acord, the art of tweaking the emotions of audiences through brilliant cinematography seems dead. Directors and DP's alike have too many tools to not try something. Usually the result is a perverted style that looks neither original or necessarily helpful to the film. And all too often the film looks, as you mentioned, painted or animated without reason.

Take Soderberg for example. He used to use a straightforward, traditional approach (Sex Lies & Videotape) depending on angles, perfectly timed movement and close ups. The subtle style he created added immense tension without the viewer even noticing.

Flash forward to Traffic and K-Street. Both leaned so heavily on effected color schemes and pointless handhelds that the former succeeded in spite of the stylistic mistakes, while the latter failed miserably.

With so many color altering techniques, both in camera and in edit, DP's don't need to depend any longer on traditional tools of the craft - light trucks and available light - and rarely does the environment in which the story takes place mean anything (Acord's stunning Lost in Translation being the most recent exception). DP's can predetermine how dark a city will look, or how sunny it will be. In the end, you get films like Ocean's 11 and its odd yellow hue, for no discernable reason whatsoever.

Directors like Rodriguez, Tarentino, and even Lucas have gotten away from the traditional techniques that made their films great to look at in the first place. The end result is most films today look like some bastardized Michael Bay concoction that would make Lazlo Kovacks puke in his grave.

Why post here Mr. Greenwald? You're better than Salon.com and you could have your own site, or post on respectable site like Huffington. This rag has been ruined by Joan Walsh and is in the pocket of The Pentagon.

How does it feel to take blood money from The Pentagon? The same Pentagon you so rightly expose and attack?

Go Airforce!