Bulbous, bouncing, 40' tall purple aliens from the planet Spoon could land on Earth right now and I wouldn't understand them any more than I understand these angry, ignorant, trembling, paranoids. It seems that so many folks on the right, like the infamous Limbaugh Ditto-heads, revel in being spoon-fed propaganda and regurgitating it on demand. Like the nimrod bimbo who assured me the other day that "Obama is a Muslim and he's going to fill the country with Muslims". Uh, no. "But his name is Hussein!" I have a friend named Sarah, I replied, that doesn't mean she hunts Moose. "But he associates with terrorists!" Yeh, I associate with Republicans, but that doesn't make me a one."

#

god's little turnips

I can't wrap my mind around how everyone got the same turnip every day.

-- ohmeohmy

[Read ohmeohmy's other letters]

Permalink Saturday, November 1, 2008 09:53 AM

Poussins. Been a while since college french. That's fish, right? I don't anything I'll have to google first.

Ms. Zacharek makes some great observations in her elegant review, but her jaded cynicism makes me sad. She's right about one thing in particular: this movie is more for those of us who read this book, or had it read to us, a long while ago. Why isn't that okay? It's not a Barney movie, but more akin to Charlie Brown, about which many of the same criticisms could be applied. Getting old makes me a little sad--I like who I am, and where I am, but it hurts, how fast it all goes. This movie most certainly speaks to the part of me that rages nostalgic.

She engaged a crazed shooter and took three hits trying to do her job and protect others. Regardless of whose bullets took Hasan down, Munley chose not to cower in a corner. She took action, risked her life--that's heroic, end of story.

It's war, I would think--or does war have to be declared by a government. It's certainly "warfare" as the shooting was done to hurt, rather than to "terrorize." Still, "terrorism" is one of our boogeyman words; it gets the people's attention, keeps us up at night. We're accustomed to war--been at it for so long now--a thought that leads me to think: is it war when it's done "there" and terrorism when it's done "here?" I might be on to something.