The Onion, in its better moments, is adept at political critique generated by taking political speech to its (il)logical extreme. Witness its lead story on a new “Anti-Abortion Pill” that kills the mother while leaving the fetus intact. This is, in fact, what extreme pro-life positions logically lead to. And this news in brief is [...]

Republican Congressman from Colorado, Tom Tancredo, was actually interviewed on NPR after Bush’s immigration speech and my god what an asshole. He hides behind false concern for legally naturalized immigrants in order to bash illegals and oppose any kind of guest worker program (which he calls amnesty). And he spoke after NPR interviewed a rep [...]

I’m listening to “President” Bush’s immigration speech at this moment and will form my more reflective reaction and post later. Right now, though, I will scream like a knee-jerk: HE STILL CALLS THIS DEBACLE OF A WAR “THE LIBERATION OF IRAQ”! Also: in his plea for assimilation (= learn English or else), he ended on [...]

I haven’t posted any films lately although I’ve seen a few; I better catch up to reach the 2006 goal of 44 films. I still have 30+ freebies coming, but that expires June 30th. Almost a film a day for the next month!? There aren’t that many I want to see.
I’ve been wanting to see [...]