Unexpected: Munich gets a nomination for Best Picture. Only one I’ve seen. I suppose if I got out of the house more…
1/31/2006
1/30/2006
Alito is in
Damn.
I made phone calls. I faxed Senators (that was cool, I never faxed before). And I’m proud to say that my New York Senators, and the Senators from my former home state of New Jersey, all voted against cloture. But the inability of the Democrats to even come close to showing solidarity is tragic. I’d be pissed off if I wasn’t so snuffly.
::Snuffle::
I have sneezles and a coldish. I don’t understand this. I never get sick. I just got over being sick which I never get, never isn’t due to roll around again for like, three years.
Going to bed. The blogosphere must carry on without me.
No Reasoning Here, We’re Partisan!
Per Alas (a Blog) I find this article on lack of thinking among partisan men.
It seems if you’re partisan (either Democrat or Republican) then, when faced with a contradiction between your candidate’s words and deeds, you don’t engage the reasoning part of your brain.
Not that I’m surprised.
Monday Movie Review: Munich
Munich 10/10
After Black September murders eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics in 1972, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meier authorizes the creation of a covert assassination squad to avenge the deaths.
Steven Spielberg has created a masterful work. It is moving without being manipulative, disturbing without being grotesque; it shows great restraint and bravado excess.
The arguments against this film seem to be three: That it is too anti-Israel, that it is too pro-Israel, and that it is historically false. One would hope the very fact that the first two arguments co-exist would cancel them out, but that’s probably optimistic. (more…)