seasleepy | Political stuff again (Reply)

So, I saw Fahrenheit 9/11 today. It was about as I'd expected.... emotional, moving, very confused about its focus.... (Oh, those soldiers are being really awful to those people in Iraq. They're just arresting people and not telling them anything, and they're talking about what CDs they listen to while they go around shooting people? My lord... <an hour later> And that's why we have to get accountability for this, because our noble troops are over there fighting in this war. The End.) I didn't want to throw things quite as much as I thought I would, but I started vaguely remembering things from the thread about it as the movie went on (oh yeah, *that's* why I had looked up all that stuff on the Binladin family!) so I also was mentally fact-checking. (The Binladen thing just struck me as a totally bizarre tangent, particularly since I looked things up on them. It'd make a fair amount of sense and be consistent with the rest of the movie if you showed it as "oh, it's this big rich guys gentleman's club here with the Bushes and the Binladins and the other Saudis and they're all scratching each others' backs and giving themselves preferential treatment," but as it was, it was trying to be like, "oh, Bush is.....uh... connected to Osama. Yyyyyyeah. That's it.")

In an amazingly appropriate contrast, when I got back to the apartment, it was just in time for a particularly pointed and awesome start to the Daily Show.

Random: Debate "drinking" game. I'm only going to do that one with Dr. Pepper. ;)

Mental images involving Antonin Scalia I really really really did not need: that one.