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Movie Monday?
I can't believe that my Verizon movie package (Starz, Encore, etc.) advertises a new movie every Saturday and then fails to deliver. It's been about three weeks since they have had a new move touting like: The Saturday, for the first time on TV, Pirates of the Caribbean, XXXVVVI.
But the girl and I did see Salt on Saturday. She loved it and was mesmerized by all the twists and turns. It's always fun to watch a movie through the eyes of a child. (Though I would swear to the death that "child" was a misprint if she ever reads this.) It's a still a ludicrous movie (we did have a mini physics lesson re: falling onto the top of a moving truck) but it's still good fast-paced adventure and as technically well-made as it is physically inaccurate.
I did get to see a 5 minute clip from the end of WWII on C-Span on Saturday. I got to hear Harry Truman and listen to the narrator intone about the people of Europe going to church to thank god for ending the war and watched old women kneeling in pews and blessing themselves in a synchronized fashion. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday! (The boy taught me this delightful way to curse.) They were praising god for ending a war! What were they doing for the 6 years he was allowing it to continue?
So without a movie to review and this being Memorial Day in the US (when we remember our dead in wars), I thought it would be fitting to depress everyone with Kevin Drum's piece in AlterNet:
http://www.alternet.org/rights/151108/why_the_democratic_party_has_abandoned_the_middle_class_in_favor_of_the_rich/
He basically tells the American voting public why their votes don't really count to either party since both have hitched their stars to the real money in this country.. It's a good insightful analysis and you get to see a glimpse of how the US might have been different if things hadn't changed in the early 1970s. But they did and I doubt the genie is going back into that proverbial bottle.
Drum offers no glimmer of hope, just explains how the world of the "average" American has changed and not for the better. Pretty depressing. But, hey, that's why god was invented.
Enjoy the day.
I did get to see a 5 minute clip from the end of WWII on C-Span on Saturday. I got to hear Harry Truman and listen to the narrator intone about the people of Europe going to church to thank god for ending the war and watched old women kneeling in pews and blessing themselves in a synchronized fashion. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday! (The boy taught me this delightful way to curse.) They were praising god for ending a war! What were they doing for the 6 years he was allowing it to continue?
So without a movie to review and this being Memorial Day in the US (when we remember our dead in wars), I thought it would be fitting to depress everyone with Kevin Drum's piece in AlterNet:
http://www.alternet.org/rights/151108/why_the_democratic_party_has_abandoned_the_middle_class_in_favor_of_the_rich/
He basically tells the American voting public why their votes don't really count to either party since both have hitched their stars to the real money in this country.. It's a good insightful analysis and you get to see a glimpse of how the US might have been different if things hadn't changed in the early 1970s. But they did and I doubt the genie is going back into that proverbial bottle.
Drum offers no glimmer of hope, just explains how the world of the "average" American has changed and not for the better. Pretty depressing. But, hey, that's why god was invented.
Enjoy the day.
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