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MacGregor - 2008-08-28 14:50:00
Lordy... Thanks Paula!
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grigorss - 2008-08-28 15:49:21
Yeah, I found Hamlet 2 something of a disappointment as well -- but Tropic Thunder is better (and funnier) than you might think.
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Paula - 2008-08-28 16:44:22
Yeah, it just seems slipshod, and Catherine Keener is wasted in her role (uh, in more ways than one), but the kids who play his best students (Epiphany and Rand) are perfect.
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Sharon - 2008-08-29 00:50:26
I actually like Kerry a lot. Despite his STENTORIAN SPEAKING STYLE (even in a room of 5 people - I met him at a college meeting in 1979) and awkward 19th century reserve, I found him immensely decent. As Richie Rich, he could have easily gotten out of his military service, but instead volunteered and was justifiably highly decorated. And then he could have averted his eyes once he got there and come back and done his own thing, but instead sat through the testimony of traumatized soldiers in that dingy Detroit hotel (see "Winter Soldier") and worked ferociously against the war. I also thought it notable that his ex-wife supported him for President. (she, a bit of a difficult blue-blood bipolar beauty who left him)and that his girls from that marriage whole-heartedly supported him and his step children did too. When I try to explain that election to my European friends, that some Americans didn't vote for him because they were convinced he was a faggoty, French windsurfer. They usually say something like, "Oh, but windsurfing is so sexy!"
I thought he'd win against Bush for sure in 2004. what a shock. I guess I'm naive. McCain can't win, can he?
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MacGregor - 2008-08-29 10:59:56
Sharon--Perhaps I'm seriously deluded or overwhelmed by the electoral fervor, but I just can't see Obama losing at this point. I think he'd have to do something really heinous between now and November to blow it. I've been wrong before though. One thing I know is that no president is going to fix things without our support and our continuing demand that promises are kept. It's just so much bigger than getting George Bush out.
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Sharon - 2008-08-29 13:26:54
MacGregor- "much bigger than"...I agree completely. That's what's promising about Obama. He's got the movie romance that Americans crave for some reason, but there's actually a lot of there there, too. That's what was so scary about Reagan. He had that aw shucks Midwestern niceness, but it was in the service of a cruel selfishness of the ruling class. Their motto : "Noblesse noblige, my ass!"
By the way, MacGregor, are you American?
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Sharon - 2008-08-29 13:29:30
nobless OBLIGE, rather.
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MacGregor - 2008-08-29 14:10:41
Sharon--that motto is the Republican Party spot on! The vulgar, nouveau riche, good 'ol boy stuff has been the ruin of this country... bunch of oil rich boomers and gold rushers running around in pick-ups whooping and hollering like a bunch of frat boys after their first kegger. I am American, and in fact, born and raised in the working class that these priapic apes pretend to represent. One would think it would be easier for people from those classes to spot the phonies. That is apparently not the case. We appear to be blinded by fear and insecurity.
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Chris - 2008-08-29 14:25:05
Sorry, but Obama could lose. There is a lot going for him, but he needs a big turn out by minorities and the young. Neither have a very strong history of actually voting. Should they increase voting amongst those two groups by 10% it will be a landslide.
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MacGregor - 2008-08-29 14:41:37
Chris--I don't see it. The GOP has is, on the one hand, struggling hard to hold it together. And on the other, it seems they've thrown the old soldier out there to fall on his sword. They've sent him out there to fight for a fragile platform that to a large extent, he himself opposed a relatively short time ago. This is a give and go for Democrats... the alley oop play in the big game.
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chris - 2008-08-29 14:47:32
Careful judging an election by what you think of the politicians. We have a tendency to create our own reality; its much easier these days with blogs et all to cherry pick our news. If you boil down the numbers Obama needs a large turnout amongst blacks and young. A 10% increase over last election would get him about 320 electoral votes. Ohio, Michigan, Colorado all are keys.
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MacGregor - 2008-08-29 15:02:44
Chris--I don't even think McCain is the worst human being in his party, but the GOP is in tatters. If we are to judge by primary turnout in key states, the increase is already there, and then some.
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MacGregor - 2008-08-29 15:16:28
And I'm pretty good at handicapping the ponies...
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Sharon - 2008-08-29 15:36:10
MacGregor- "I'm pretty good at.." ohh, I hope so! My asshole brother-in-law, who is a hedgefund lawyer, goes around spouting the party line, "Obama's gonna raise taxes. Sharon, you just want to pick my pocket every 4 years!" And I think that works for a lot of knuckleheads who think, "yeah, raising taxes, that's bad," -even those who make so little money Obama would actually benefit them and not increase their burden. But I think in my brother-in-law's case, I think the real reason he gets so enraged at me is because I liked him a lot better when he was a down-and-out bass player for the Pussy Willows!
NOBLESSE oblige...Jesus! I'm a typo machine!
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MacGregor - 2008-08-29 15:53:11
Okay, given McCain's VP choice here, I'd say that the GOP is throwing the election. She's everything that the GOP accuses Obama of being except that she's not endowed with male genitalia which both male and female voters love.
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amatt - 2008-08-29 16:00:29
The Pussy Willows? They are in one of my favorite video's of all time!
YouTube. Look it ups as:
Bob Weir, Bongwater and the Fabulous Pussywillows.
Notice Hiram Bullock on guitar, who recently passed away.
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Chris - 2008-08-29 16:14:50
I think the odds out in the market are pretty much spot on; Obama 60% chance of winning.
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Sharon - 2008-08-29 16:15:07
Amatt- I should realize on this blog that any band reference that in the outside world may be seen as obscure, is seen here as matter of course, and may blow the anonymous nature of my family discord. Oops! (but I think in this case we're talking about different Pussies Willow, so to speak...)
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MacGregor - 2008-08-29 16:23:46
Can someone check this blog for me and see if this is a photo of Sarah Palin hanging out with a guy in a Nazi helmet? I can't open the site. palinforvp.blogspot.com
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