Is there anyone else here in this virtual building that doesn't think our leader is a murderous, petty, corporate-whoring thug at this point? (I mean leader in the larger sense; I gots no beef with Jeff.)
If so... Oh? What's this? Scooter Libby gets his sentence miraculously commuted by the President only a week before he was set to start an 18 month jail sentence for obstruction of justice, outright lying and probably a million things we don't know about, being that he is (or was) the right-hand man to the only man in the White House scarier than Bush? What a surprise. Oh, and the commutation can't be disputed by any court, attorney or anybody else in the country? Well that's just fucking great. I hope if I ever help a group of partisan thugs pull all sorts of dirty tricks to stay in absolute power I get a similar handjob. Hell, he'll probably get a full pardon in 2008 on his boss' way out the door.
Also, at some point we can have fun looking back and tallying up all the things that went wrong. It's a common thing you hear at the Union Square protests or on the internet amongst certain message board/listserv communities that we are living under the worst President in American history. I think the case at this point is no longer some idle 'radical' remark; I think the point can certainly be made.
Goddamn it Bush, now look what you made me do. You made me go all crazy sounding when I've always tried to keep my cards close. I didn't want to be one of "those liberals," although I must mention that for all its rhetorical issues, Michael Moore has hit another one out of the park with Sicko.
Yeah, that's all.
Oh.
P.S. There is little doubt Under Siege is the greatest Steven Segal film ever. Far above Out For a Kill or even Half Past Dead. He's a cook---COOKING UP TROUBLE! ... TROUBLE FOR THE BAD GUYS!
Posted by dave at July 3, 2007 10:31 AM
everyone rally around dave, our fearless leader. i saw michael moore on the daily show and was reminded of you. hah!
Posted by: joel at July 3, 2007 11:11 PMI've gots beef with Jefe...he never did my dare...
But I guess this is much worse then that...I want a pardon for something I do someday.
Posted by: rob at July 4, 2007 12:40 AMyeah. thanks for making me want to come home EVEN MORE. ha. i. actually become physically sick sometimes most times when i talk to people about the war (in liberia) and then i think about iraq and the general apathy of most americans. i make myself sick. my culture makes me sick. something is not righttttt here. is anyone else freaaaking out?
Posted by: jayme at July 4, 2007 8:33 AMHey I saw The Proposition. It was violent, but not as violent as Old Boy, which I saw over the weekend, which was not as violent as Pan's Labyrinth, which is the most violent movie I've seen since Saw 3 doesn't count as a movie.
The Proposition was not as good as Quigley Down Under, which I saw last week. I'm not kidding. Quigley was downright awesome. But I'm a picky Western kind of guy, and if the action is lacking, then my interest is lacking. Because the desert is boring.
However, I will say The Proposition is hands down the prettiest movie I've seen all year. And I just saw Ratatouille. Which may sound like I'm kidding, but Ratatouille is incredibly handsome.
I'm not going to see Sicko cause my dad would never speak to me again. And plus politics have no direct effect on my life, no matter how much anyone wants to tell me they do. I wake up, I go to school, I eat lunch, I go to work, and I fall asleep. Sometimes I get drunk or high or draw pictures. There is no politic to that, save for those which I myself create.
Posted by: Dana at July 4, 2007 1:33 PMthat would be the "body politic," but I am not going to lead this that way
Posted by: Jeff at July 4, 2007 1:45 PMjeff - its true you stopped the dare and blog fun. that idea was working, remember? rob, perhaps suggest a better dare.
Posted by: joel at July 4, 2007 1:53 PMyo digital! you weren't really expecting libby to serve much time if any at all were you? when i'm president, i'm pardoning charles manson. just so maybe they change the rules. too risky? not as risky as steven segal's TRUE best movie, executive decision. where he dies in the first 20 minutes in an awesome way.
Posted by: Jason C at July 4, 2007 2:35 PMMichael Moore said that once he gets done with Sicko he will get a stomach staple. Thank god. The wobbling chin fat is really distracting when he is accusing others of philandering.
Posted by: Naimul at July 5, 2007 3:05 AMit did lapse on me, true, and though it is no excuse, it is because I tried to integrate it to my own stuff (an in so doing, made it too complex and un-doable)
Do me another dare! I know that's cheap, but I will do this one
Yeah, The Proposition is very pretty. Very, very pretty. Helps to see it on the big screen with no pre-conceived expectations, and then spend the next two hours apologizing to your date because you thought it would be a quiet, pretty movie.
In terms of the most violent movie I've seen, Ichi the Killer or another Miike (perhaps Dead or Alive?) takes the cake, although Smokin' Aces was really nothing more than an hour and a half of gun porn, so perhaps that would count.
Posted by: dave at July 6, 2007 9:35 AMdamn, i always thought getting pardoned by the president would be for something amazingly heroic and bomb. now look what America has come too.
Posted by: tim at July 6, 2007 1:11 PM