I saw a piece on CNN this morning with Glenn Beck pushing his special. He was being "interviewed" by one of the talking heads. He said he'd seen An Inconvinient Truth and came out feeling the urge to buy a Prius. BUT... Yeah, the Prius comment was Beck trying to appear even-handed and rational. He then started harping on the time line & carbon emmisions. I couldn't watch anymore because I knew that his only purpose was to demonize the movie, Gore, and all Democrats.

It's pretty sad that the environment, climate change, the health of our planet and thus the health of everyone on it has become a political argument.

I read the letter twice, but still don't know what the husband thinks or how he responded to the contents of the journal. From the letter, I get the impression that only person who had a problem with this is the wife. She's worried that he will think less of her? or of her love for him?

Loved Cary's reply. It's the kind of musing that one can apply to many aspects of life.

I saw Tim Russert report this and from his tone & demeanor you'd have thought someone was going to war. All he needed was some "serious" background music to add to the drama he invoked. It's pretty sad state of affairs when congressmen talking "frankly" with the president is high drama. Of course, we all know it's just part of the spin on riding out the occupation.

Joe Klein: Look, at this point, we're pretty well battered. We're losing advertising revenue.

I wonder if anyone pointed out to Mr. Klein that this is the beloved "market" at work. Advertisers go where the money is. Life is good...if you're on the positive cash flow side.

I have seen this movie. Ugh. The writing was bad, the pacing was bad & and the directing was bad. As happens too often, the commercials on TV misrepresent the movie. It's not a comedy. It tries to add some comic moments but they are mostly awkward and seem forced. It is a drama on a very serious topic that is badly done. I felt absolutely no sympathy for Lohan's character and she was the one person who most needed the sympathy nod. Without it her character was an annoying, nasty, oversexed teenager who was just looking for attention and didn't think twice about causing huge problems in other people's lives. And I think the director's decision to toy with the audience didn't work. It was frustrating and dragged on too long. As for Fonda, while her character was an important component of the movie, she actually had little screen time, particularly since she's the person out there selling the movie.

All in all, I'd like my $7 and 2 hours back.

Jake, there's an article called "Manufactuting Beliefs" in today's Salon. They're discussing religion in the comments section because that's what the article is about. You'll probably find a lot more people who actually care about it there.

Hmmm. I was trying to coax Jake to the other comments section. I didn't realize he could handle both at the same time.

Speaking of Christian Conservatives, Jerry Fallwell is dead.

Speaking of the press. Tim Russert was on The Daily Show last night…apparently pushing yet another book about fathers that he's written. Stewart came out of the gate asking why Russert doesn't have Karl Rove, the man behind everything, on his show. Russert said that he's asked & Rove refuses. There was some back & forth about this, which included Russert mentioning the first amendment rights as some sort of reason that our public officials refusing to answer questions. Russert then tried to steer the discussion to the candidates. He said that he's offered the full hour to each of the candidates and they're not taking him up on it. Stewart, to his credit, responded with "I'm not finished with this administration yet." So apparently the press, or at least Tim Russert, is finished with the current administration.

BTW, I dugg, though I have to admit I don't have an understanding of how that system works.

Tim, this piece is confusing. Aren't you mixing up apples and orangers. You start by talking about the bill and end by giving us the vote on cloture. These are two different things. Explain more fully, please.

Thanks for this delightful piece, King. You should come out of your sports corner more often.

Thank you, thank you. I turned away for a minute last night & came back to Betty getting bad news on the phone, then telling Hilda. I'd thought their Dad had been killed. I'm so relieved.

BTW, I agree with you, it's a wonderfully fun show to watch.

Senator Tancredo's quote was my favorite, although I'd change one word. "The president is so desperate for a legacy and a foreign policy win that he is willing to sell out the American people and our national security." -

This isn't a review so I'll give Andrew a little leeway, but...

Not having seen Grindhouse I'm confused & can only guess what the origin of Death Proof has to do with Grindhouse. My guess is that it was a smaller part of Grindhouse and has now been made into a full movie. It would be nice if this piece explained that. I like some of Tarantino's work (Kill Bills were the last films I saw) and I'm always interested to read about his newest film, but clearly to understand the dynamics going on in this Cannes press conference you have to have the inside knowledge of a fan who sees all and knows all things Quentin.