November 2003 Index
Monday, November 3, 2003: Short Stuff
Tuesday, November 4, 2003: Link Mania
Wednesday, November 5, 2003: Dean for Dummies
Monday, November 3, 2003: Short Stuff
And here is one reason why I'm switching from Geocities. Just now, I had an entire post ready to go. I pressed the save button, reasonably expecting Geocities to actually save my post. But no. It went back to my last post from last week.
This is not the first time Geocities has lost something.
What I said was that I'll be posting light in the next few days (weeks?) due to the move to my own domain and the process of learning Movable Type. So, it'll be light posts and links for a while.
ABC is showing a news report on Mary Magdelene tonight. Here* is a NYT article about it.
This* is an article about Mel Gibson's movie about the 'The Passion of Christ.' I haven't decided if I'll see it in theaters yet.
I watched Chicago last night. It was good, which suprised me since I didn't go see it theaters because of Renee Z. and Richard G. I'm quite suprised they didn't ruin the movie, but their offenses were minor. Catherine Zeta-Jones was amazing, of course, as was Queen Latifa.
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Tuesday, November 4, 2003: Link Mania
How stupid is this? A man vandalizes a woman�s house because he says she didn�t give his son candy on Halloween. Dumb*.
I refuse to watch �The Reagans� miniseries. Even if it does air*.
I haven�t heard anything good by critics about the third Matrix movie. But what do they know? Here are two* articles* about Matrix Revolutions.
I saw a documentary on Mount Rushmore* last night. Well, that link doesn't take you to the same documentary I saw last night. I couldn't find a page for it. In any case, the documentary I saw added to Renee's pics really made me want to go see Mount Rushmore. They had some pretty interesting info on the sculptor. I didn�t know that Gutzon Borglum�s father was a member of the church. He was a polygamist, which I thought was interesting. I also didn�t know that he began the carvings on Stone* Mountain*.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2003: Dean for Dummies
I never before thought that I had masochistic tendencies before last night: I watched the presidential debate on CNN last night. CNN Rocks the Vote! Well, to be perfectly honest, I watched part of the presidential debate last night.
Apparently, there is only so much hubris I can handle before the urge to throw my Lane recliner through the nearest window manifests its Hulk-ish head.
Of course all of the other Democratic candidates piled on Howard Dean because of his yearning to �be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.� Somewhere, Satan is laughing: I actually agreed with Al Sharpton on an issue. If I weren�t so horrified by our like-mindedness on this subject, I might be amused by it.
As someone who was born (and has always lived) in the very Kudzu States that Dean wants to represent, I am deeply offended by Dean�s remarks. Is this how he sees us? Are we nothing but pickup-driving, tobacco-chewing, Confederate-flagging, bedsheet-wearing, cousin-marrying, trailer-parking yahoos to Dean?
Last night at the CNN Rocks the Vote! broadcast, he explained his remarks by saying that he was talking about poor southerners, not all southerners. Speaking as one who was once a poor southerner and whose father lived in real poverty (yes, outhouses and dirt floors were involved) and whose grandfather was a chicken thief during the Depression and moon-shiner during prohibition, I have never owned a Confederate flag. I�ve never waved one. OK, my father owns a pickup, but he has never owned a Confederate flag. Heck, he�s never even been to a good ol� cross burning either. I don�t know anyone who has. My father doesn�t know anyone who has.
That�s saying quite a bit, seeing as how I grew up in the foothills of Appalachia in Alabama where our nearest neighbor was a cow that lived in a pasture on the other side of the dirt road on which we lived.
I don�t know how to end this, so I�ll just close by saying that Dean is a moron.
Oh, and Kathleen Parker wrote an article about this very same subject over at Townhall*. Funny lady.
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