Month: January 2008

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Thanks.

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Question:
What has two thumbs and doesn’t give a crap?

Answer:John McCain. Glad to meet you.

Edwards is reportedly dropping out of the race. That leaves me wondering who the hëll I’m going to vote for in the Democratic primary. I feel as if Clinton has too much baggage and Obama is too inexperienced, particularly if it means going up against an old hand like McCain.

Actually, a McCain/Obama race would be eerily similar to the final season of “West Wing,” which depicted a seasoned Republican with some centrist and even liberal views (Alan Alda’s Arnie Vinnick) going up against a younger, less experienced but naively idealistic Congressman who was distinctly a non-WASP (Jimmy Smits’ Matt Santos). In that showdown, Santos won…except that wasn’t the original scenario. Originally, and more realistically, Vinnick was going to win. But the death of Leo McGarry (paralleling the real life passing of actor John Spencer) prompted the producers to change the intended outcome because the felt it would be just too much tragedy and loss to dump on both Santos and his campaign manager, Josh (Bradley Whitford).

Obama, of course, won’t have that scenario available to him. Which means that if is Obama/McCain, and all things remain equal, the West Wing scenario dictates that McCain will win.

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Good news/bad news. Bad news is, I have a bowling league this evening so I will not be on hand to live blog the George Bush Misstatement of the Union. Good news is, Kathleen is going to step up and live blog it right here on this site, starting at or around 9 PM.

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Kathleen here. I put my POV on this behind the cut.

Continue Reading “MISSTATING OF THE UNION 2008” →

“Fallen Angel” twists storytelling chronological narrative as the war, glimpsed in #22, truly starts with #23. Meanwhile She-Hulk and Jazinda talk about feelings, which of course women NEVER do. Whad’ja think?

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And so “The Dark Knight” will join “The Crow” as a comic book oriented film that’s going to have a seriously tragic and creepy aspect added to it: Watching a promising young actor performing his last role as a death obsessed comic book character.

It will be a while (if ever) before we find out exactly what happened to Heath Ledger (whom I’ve liked in every film I ever saw him in.) I sure hope they don’t rule it suicide: Losing a loved one at such a young age is tragic enough for the family; but suicide is a whole new level of trauma.

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Bob Greenberger has gone public on his blog with the discovery that his nineteen year old son, Robbie, is fighting leukemia.

According to Bob, if one must have leukemia, the type that Robbie has is the one to have. That is to say, medical science can successfully fight it. I’ve known Robbie since infancy, and Ariel has known him her entire life, so she’s well and truly devastated. We just saw him a few months ago when he came down for Ariel’s sweet sixteen.

Our best wishes go to Bob, Deb, Katie and of course Robbie for the struggle they’re faced with over the next months.

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