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Current Thoughts

1.) LOSS OF COOL
     Professor Gates lost his cool, 
     Officer Crowley lost his cool too,
     and President Obama lost his cool also.
     To loose your cool is human;
     to pull back is even more human
     but not everyone wants to pull back.
     Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have been "basking in the glow"  
      since the death of Michael Jackson. They are reluctant to pull
     back. When it comes to these two-anything racial will do.
     On the other hand, pulling back will deny Rush Liverwurst his
     rant. 
     This is America----------------------------------------------------------
     And....
     Professor Gates has already garnered tons of publicity for his
     upcoming documentary. 
     Officer Crowley will undoubtedly write a book titled
     "Racialgate" 
     and our President will hopefully avoid use of the word
     "stupidly".

2.) FASCISM AND FILM
Speaking of stupid, the trailer for Quentin Tarantino's new film, "Inglourious Basterds" is the epitome thereof-a kneeling Nazi is confronted by Brad Pitt, "So you want to die for the fatherland," Pitt says with a baseball bat or some other club in his hand. Surely a boy should not be sent to do a man's job; and Hollywood is filled with aging boys instead of men. Men do not bash a helpless prisoner's brains out. Can you imagine Jimmy Stewart John Wayne, Gregory Peck or Kirk Douglas doing this (well, maybe Kirk Douglas). The aforementioned gentlemen are from an era when Americans thought of themselves as noble.

Personally, I didn't see anyone's brains being bashed out in Korea; but the frustration of Viet Nam bred a mentality which said, "If we can't win the war on the ground, we'll win it in the movies. We'll send in a short guy from Philadelphia who has eaten so many Philly steak and cheese sandwiches that he's developed a speech impediment-we'll call him Rambo, a character out of the "Art of War" by Sun Tzu. Rambo will do what American heroes have never done, he'll make himself a copy of the monsters that threaten our way of life thereby exciting every little boy and punk-ass in the theater. Tarantino is following the same formula.

If Quentin had grown up in, say, Providence-he would have encountered opera and a lot of good Italian food; but Quentin grew up in Austin, Texas, the capital of American Fascism and this has affected him.

As for my advice-don't see this movie unless you want some cheap titillation.

3.) LOUD MOUTHS
The feud between Keith Olbermann of MSNBC and Bill O'Reilly of FOX News is over. They have been saying nasty things about one other for years. Olbermann consistently awarded O'Reilly the honor of being "the worst guy in the world"; but their corporate parents-Murdoch, et al and General Electric have pulled the plug and it's about time.

I have never been a fan of Bill O'Reilly and in one of my TV skits I said that President George W. Bush had the O'Reilly Factor--a disease where the mouth gets bigger than the brain. But to be fair-O'Reilly does sometimes try to be fair, just a little bit. He also has a sense of humor (if you're Irish). Keith Olbermann, on the other hand, is a Liberal who was and is basically, a sports announcer. A little less yelling on news channels is a welcome thing. This was all started, pretty much, by Pat Buchanan on Crossfire several years ago. We end up with O'Reilly, Hannity, Beck and Buckhannon. Why are these loud and rude men all members of the same crowd? On the other hand, Larry King, Jon Stewart, Bill Maher and Wolf Blitzer are members of another crowd (gentlemen one and all). Although Bill Maher dismisses his association, but as we all can see, "his nose knows".
Next week I'll get back to Black White and Gray and the Golden Ass Café and talk about the Diverse Crowd.

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