Not all movie execs are green:
One bike advocate said Universal executives told him they feared that people would use the path to lob unsolicited screenplays onto the studio’s nearby production lot — something that apparently happens at other spots when a Universal film scores big at the box office.
Just two reasons why their attempt to argue that the media is biased against them is absurd. If Clinton had won ten primaries or caucuses in a row, do you think the MSM would have regarded Obama as still viable? And where are their fricking tax returns? Basic transparency on tax returns is a no-brainer for a presidential candidate. And yet she still hasn’t done it and has absolutely no good reason for the delay, except to avoid scrutiny of her husband’s post-presidential corporate whoring.
Ann Althouse deciphers some weird lettering on the pajamas of the kid in the Clinton "red phone" ad. If it’s subliminal racism, it’s very, very, very subliminal. But then that’s what I thought about "RATS".
She has run her campaign the way he ran his war: on the fly, propelled by arrogance, incompetently, inconsistently and surrounded by yes men and women. You want to re-elect a president as inept and cocooned as the current one? Vote Hillary.
One telling reflection of the Bush administration’s handling of the region: the Islamo-fascist was able to announce his visit well in advance; the American president had to go in strict secrecy. There you have a small insight into the immense damage to American power that this administration has inflicted. And who really won the war against Saddam.
Why else would he not be wearing an American flag lapel pin?
Nicholson edits a strange YouTube backing Hillary. He thinks she’d be hot as commander-in-chief.
We gays have work to do. A reader writes:
You wrote:
So many sympathetic straights just don’t know the kind of inequality gays live with all the time. What does that say about the effectiveness of the leading gay rights groups?
Just this week, I attended a forum of candidates seeking the Democratic Party nomination to run for one of the seats to the California Assembly. The candidates were asked whether they would vote for the Marriage Equality bill when it is introduced yet again. (It has been approved twice, and twice been vetoed by Schwarzenegger.) Four of five said they will support the bill. Almost as troubling as the one candidate who said he will not support marriage, was the reasoning of one of the supporters.
The supporter said that if gays and lesbians feel more equal because they can get "that piece of paper," then that should be the law. The other comments he made demonstrated that he has no understanding of the very real legal and financial problems that have are created by the soup of varying partnership laws around the country and by DOMA’s ban on federal recognition of state civil union, domestic partnership and same gender marriage laws.
LGBT political groups have worked hard to convince politicians that they can safely vote for LGBT legislation, but appear not to have worked to educate them about why they should support these laws. It’s disturbing.
A supporter holds a photograph of Democratic presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton as she greets supporters after she spoke at a caucus training summit at Fox Technical High School March 1, 2008 in San Antonio, Texas. With less than a week before the Texas and Ohio primaries, Hillary Clinton is campaigning through Texas. By Justin Sullivan/Getty Images.
A reader writes:
I had to respond to the photo of the dead 5 month old Palestinian boy killed in the Israeli rocket attack. The photo was a gut punch to me.
I am hardly an Arab/Palestinian sympathizer. Indeed, I am a fairly strong supporter of Israel. But the tragedy of this innocent child’s death evoked deep sadness for me.
And I also was forced to recognize that as a father of two children under the age of three, were I that little boy’s father I would now be the most avowedly radicalized anti-Israeli fanatic on this planet. I have no idea what that child’s father’s politics are; indeed I recognize that they were probably strongly pro-Hamas even before this tragedy. However, can anyone begrudge the man his anger and hate now? Can anyone really dispute the right of this child’s family to seek retribution against Israel?
Which of course evokes images of blown up Israeli civilians killed by Palestinian bombers. Can anyone blame their families for demanding swift retribution?
The cycle of violence and killing seems intractable. I know that forty years ago the same could be said for Northern Ireland, but there seems so little common ground upon which the opposing parties might try to bridge their differences to gain peace. And with each succeeding year, more little children die or perhaps even more tragically they become vessels of hate and prejudice.
It’s enough to break one’s heart.
