Took one of those on-line tests determine my political label.

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I recently saw the movie Munich. If you don’t know, it begins with the massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympics, in which a group of Palestinian terrorists took hostage and eventually killed 11 members of the Israeli team. The movie follows the team of Israeli assassins who were dispatched to kill the principle planners of the Munich attack. The events of the Munich attack itself unfold in sequential flashbacks interspersed throughout the movie.

Munich is powerful and worth seeing because the film’s director, Spielberg, did something unusual: he made every person in the film human. You might expect that with the ‘good guys,’ the team of Israeli agents. But Spielberg also does this for the ‘bad guys.’

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It’s true. I’ve done a lousy job of posting anything, let alone content that is original, creative and interesting. I have lots of ideas, but no time these days. My corporate overlords have heaped many fascinating and time-consuming projects upon me, projects which will no doubt change the way we live and think for generations to come; projects which represent techtonic shifts in the global human experience.

That, and I have a new game for my Xbox.

:-D

“The Reverend Pat Robertson said that God ended the New England Patriots’ Superbowl hopes to punish Massachusetts for legalizing gay marriage.”

- Borowitz Report

Congress passed and the President signed a law which makes it illegal to send email or post messages on a website with intent to “annoy,” if you hide your real identity. (link)

*cough* unconstitutional *cough*

In Colorado, you can get a ticket if you have a child riding in the car and you don’t have seat belt or child seat that is approved for a child of that age by the federal government. However, it is entirely legal to let that kid ride unrestrained in the bed of a pickup truck (if the child is five or older), or on the back of a motorcycle without a helmet.

Way to earn those paychecks, law-makers.