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Saturday, Nov 7, 2009
'The Day the Earth Stood Still'is one of my favorite old SciFi films. It's profound in a very hokey sort of way but pretty fun when you look at it in the context of the paranoid cold war mentality that was so prevalent in the 50's. So why the numb nuts in Hollywood decided to remake this picture is beyond me. The charm of the original is that it captures a certain zeitgeist of the times. Did these unoriginal morons really think that giving the movie an environmental message and some expensive special effects would bring this picture into the twenty first century?
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The Maine fight was supposed to be the dress rehearsal for repealing California's Prop. 8 -- but gay marriage lost
Once one obtains Seriousness credentials in the Washington media, they are irrevocable no matter one's conduct.
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