Just catching up here:
Mike: James Mason’s performance in LOLITA, though great Mason, was not his
best. His best was in THE SHOOTING PARTY. “You were not shooting like a
gentleman, Gilbert.”
[From that Fox News report on Arab reaction to Bush’s speech]: “Arabs want
democracy. They hate their corrupt regimes more than they hate the United
States,” wrote Abdul Bari Atwan, editor-in-chief of the London-based Arabic
daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi. “But,” he added, “they are not going to listen
attentively to the speech of the American president, first, because the
consecutive American administrations, in the past 50 years, supported those
regimes … and because all true democracies in the world came as a result
of internal struggle, not due to foreign intervention, particularly
American.” Er, the only real democracy in the Middle East is Israel; and
the major premise of all Arab rhetoric is, that Israel continues to exist
(bad thing! bad thing!) precisely because of “foreign intervention,
particularly American.” So… do they want us to intervene, or not?
Kucinich: I’m surprised there hasn’t been more coverage of his proposal to
rename the Department of Defense the “Department of Peace.” I actually
thing “Department of Defense” is already too euphemistic. I favor
“Department of War.” Let’s call things by their true names. I’d even go
across the board with this. “Department of Welfare,” “Department of Farm
Subsidies,” “Department of Foreign Stuff,” “Department of Slums,”
“Department of Regulation,” etc.
Accusations that my stuff is actually written by Boris: This is
contemptible. All I can say is… (Sniff)… Wait a minute, gotta pee…