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October 25, 2005

Tuesday stuff: Things to chew over

I'll be out most of the day brainwashing America's youth to goosestep to the liberal agenda. Here's some stuff to chew over while I'm away today:

Movie Review: I meant to write about this last weekend and I forgot. I went to see A History of Violence about 10 days ago. I don't often go to the movies at the theatre (I have Netflix and I'm the Queen of Pay-Per-View Ti-Vo). This is definitely a film to rent if blood and guts on the big screen isn't your thing.

This film is one of the bloodiest, most violent non-horror films I've seen in quite some time. Viggo Mortensen (sans the greasy Aragorn locks and clean shaven) is intense and electrifying. Every time he was on the screen I couldn't take my eyes off of him. The film is set in a small town in Indiana, where Mortensen leads a quiet life with his family. One day some thugs try to rob his cafe at gunpoint..and Viggo goes into James Bond mode, disarming the thugs and shooting their brains out.

TV crews show up en masse and Viggo is splashed all over the evening news. All of a sudden some mobsters from Philly show up..claiming they know Viggo from way back. The conflict with Viggo's family and the mafia kicks in after that.

The best part of the movie is the William Hurt character, Richie Cusak. He looks and acts like a really pissed off Quaker. It's genuinely hysterical.

All in all it's a fair film..not great. Definitely a matinee or a rental.

Also, I finally got around to purchasing and starting The Assassin's Gate. It's already sparked some really fascinating conversation between Kevin and myself...which I hope we'll be writing about in the coming days.

And finally...the GOP has to know they're in trouble when even Howard Kurtz thinks their strategy is lame ass:

"Some perjury technicality"?

Did Kay Bailey Hutchison really say that?
She must have. It was on 'Meet the Press.'

Is this the Republican strategy for dealing with any CIA leak indictments? Saying no real crimes were committed, just a teensy weensy bit of perjury? Turning Patrick Fitzgerald into Ken Starr?

I hasten to add that I have no idea whether anyone will be indicted. I've never met Pat Fitzgerald, and had problems with the way he threatened reporters with jail, but as the U.S. attorney in Chicago who went after some Daley cronies, he has a sterling reputation.

It is true that prosecutors who can't prove the original crime often wind up bringing perjury and obstruction charges. But lying to investigators, or to a federal grand jury, strikes at the heart of the law-enforcement process. This happens to be the message that GOPers pounded over and over again when Clinton dissembled over Monica, so surely they take it seriously. Or is that only when a Democrat is president?

When you lose Howard.....

Posted by Carla at October 25, 2005 07:58 AM