I think possibly Lucas just doesn’t actually know what the hell his people are doing.

It was also one of the reasons I finally left animation. really, really despise it, but it just keeps going and going.

Something else I just don’t get – Kathy Griffin. The woman is pathologically incapable of kindness, or truth. The hatred radiates like shards of broken glass. I don’t get these comedians who say the most vulgar things, comments with not a shred of insight, wrapped in a hatred so black it’s demented. Doesn’t matter how ignorant you are, because my anger is so intense everything magically becomes true? WTF. This is comedy??

The difference, I think, is this: Our revolution was about making things better for us, and it didn’t get co-opted by thugs, whereas the French revolution and the various Cuban revolutions merely claimed to be about making things better, when in fact what they really meant was “Power to me and a few of my friends, who know what’s best for the people.” The Cuban revolutions all had good ideals, most of which we’d agree with in a hearbeat, but they got thugified pretty quickly.

If that’s the case, then a “Good” revolution and a “Bad” revolution are impossible to judge until long after the fact: A good one gives rise to a stable, humanistic, humanitarian government that doesn’t oppress it’s people, and a bad one is, well, anything else, really.

I realize it’s unpopular to be a conservative and diss Batista because he was *OUR* thug, but the fact remains that peasants don’t revolt because they’re happy, they tend to do it because they’re working 20 hour days, are starving, and too poor to own shoes.

Detective shows hit their zenith with “Homicide;” it’s been downhill ever since. I typically enjoy “House” because it’s more detective show than medical drama, but so far this season reeks.

Don’t apologize for never having read the Tolkien books; I’ve tried for years and still think they’re amazingly boring. As for the films, I agree 100%. I think I may have actually fallen asleep during one or three of the “climatic” battles in the third film. Give me “Lawrence of Arabia” any day.

Coincidentally, ‘Awrence provides a proper quote as to why motorcycles are great: “[A] motor-bike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its logical extensions of our facilities, and the hint, the provocations, to excess.”

I realized we had maybe watched it a bit much when I overheard my oldest twins in the back seat talking and one says to the other “do you know what a table dancer is?”. I didn’t interrupt, hoping I’d find out where on earth they heard about that. The other one replies in the negative so he proceeds to tell him, “you know, those people who dance on tables while people throw money….like on hobbits”. He was talking about the scene in the bar with Merry, Frodo and Pippin dancing on tables. Thank God. I told them that yes, hobbits are known for their table dancing.