Here in Fremont, CA, 94538, we had no problems with polling places in 2000 and 2004. But today, when I tried to vote, I discovered that the scanner for our precinct has been broken since 7am! Was it never tested? Why hasn't been replaced by now?!

Even better, this means that EVERY SINGLE VOTER IN MY PRECINCT WILL HAVE TO FILE PROVISIONAL BALLOTS. And we all know how often those are tallied, right?

This is just fucking unbelievable!

I'm not sure, exactly, because I stalked off in a fury, afraid I'd be arrested for causing a ruckus. But I'm fairly certain that when the primary vote machine(s) are all down the only option is to use provisional ballots.

Great movie with an absolutely horrific ending. To this day I don't know what the hell Clouzot was thinking.

Am I the only one on the planet who gets this?

Excellent action-adventure film, capped off by one of the great put-down lines in the history of cinema...

RALPH BELLAMY

You bastard!

LEE MARVIN

Yes sir, for me an accident of birth.

But you sir are a self-made man.

During the primaries Barack Obama said that investigations into official crimes was not off the table. It will be interesting to see if he follows up on that.

No one gave Barack Obama anything. He did it himself. That's not to diminish who Robinson was, but to remind everyone of how times have changed.

Pardons from Bush would be meaningless. This is international law we're talking about, not to mention mass-murder.

I have a question about this whole issue. If Barack Obama was indeed born in Kenya that would have necessitated his mother having been there as well, no? That being the case, can any of you BARKING LOONS offer any proof she was in Kenya on or about his birth date?!

Verifiable facts only, please.

Say what you will about Van Damme, but once upon a time he could some serious Van Dammage at the box office. My two favorite films of his are "Bloodsport" and "Cyborg." The former of the two will always be the best martial arts competition movie (hard to believe it came out twenty years ago). And the latter of the two is just amazing all the way around, not just as a martial arts film.

...on "My Damn Channel" then it's no wonder this movie sucks ass.

Oh good God, good God, good God, good God...

I think Paglia has finally gone 'round the bend. It's not pretty.

But then that doesn't surprise me. Almost no one else around here does, including Stephanie Zacharek.

Scarface was a truly great film. The entire sub-plot apparently escaped you. And it was this: Tony Montana wanted to fuck his sister. It's the central tragedy of the movie, and you missed it because you were so caught up in the violence. I saw it when it first came out, as a senior in high school, and I wasn't so tripped up as you were. Nor were Siskel and Ebert, both of whom, at the time, recognized that as the central plot point. But you didn't get that, 25 years later. Pathetic.

The fact is that Scarface was prescient in more ways than one. Oliver Stone obviously saw what was coming in the Age of Reagan, or why else would he have written "..look at Miami, it's like a giant pussy waiting to be fucked" in one film and "..Greed is good" in another film only two years later? No, I think you are the one who didn't and isn't getting it, sir. Not at all.

I started reading this with the assumption that it would be a parody, or facetious in tone (after all, with a name like "Dixit Jay" it had to be). But then I get to the second page and WHAT THE FUCK??!! The morons who creates sites like lolcats need to be outed as the fools they really are, not lavished with "serious" examinations on an ostensibly intelligent webzine.

But they're both gone from the show. Now what? Well, I think now we'll see more of Lorne Michaels's incompetence. I'm not sure what happened to the man, but he's lost whatever comedic sensibility he once had. Or is his failure purposeful? Lets not forget that waaaaay back in 1975 he said that if SNL ever became an institution he would deliberately destroy it with rotten casts.

For the eight years that Tina Fey was head writer I thought he was going to succeed. Then Andy Samberg and Amy Poehler came along and the show was actually funny on occasion. It will be interesting to see what happens now.

...in equal measure. Good on him for writing it.

Kindly stick your condescension up your ass. Thanks.

This...

"We Were Soldiers Once and Young" is based on a battle I saw from the deck of our troop ship, the first major encounter of our troops with NVA.

You could see the Vietnamese Central Highlands from your ship?? What a crock of shit! Yeah, and Sarah Palin can see Russia from her front porch. You people amaze me.

Enough said, and good riddens.

Oh yeah it does, when the Republican minority is dealing with a sad collection of DINOs.

So another three-bit piece of genre trash is getting the Potter treatment. Oh boy, knock me over with a feather. Meanwhile, Tina Fey gets a six million dollar bionic advance for a book she hasn't even written (and probably won't - ghost writer, anyone?). It is developments like these that have my darker side hoping that the Second Great Depression comes more sooner than later.

Then they'd know that "the change we've been looking for" referred to the Clintonistas returning to power, not some Shangri-La of liberal-left possibility.