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This is a nice, litte feature I hadn't noticed until this morning.

A very non-predictable Morford this time. Mark takes Moore and the movie to task for some things, but comes to the conclusion that it's a good movie because of how it affects people.

Look. You can disagree with Moore's opinions and his often patronizing conclusions all you want. But you can't, after all, refute his facts. Moore's movie has done more than merely free up the pundits and the disgruntled military generals to speak out, or make timid reporters actually dig for truth again. He has done more than help put surprising words of dissent and criticism back into the mouths of congressmen and the major media.

He has, in short, made Middle America think again. He has cracked the GOP's frozen ideological sea, showed us all one thing that we have so desperately forgotten. That America does not, after all, have to be this way, and that its citizens do, in fact, have a choice.

Let America be America.

BOB SLYDELL So what you do is you take the specifications from the customers and you bring them down to the software engineers?

TOM That, that's right.

BOB PORTER Well, then I gotta ask, then why can't the customers just take the
specifications directly to the software people, huh?

TOM Well, uh, uh, uh, because, uh, engineers are not good at dealing with
customers.

BOB SLYDELL You physically take the specs from the customer?

TOM Well, no, my, my secretary does that, or, or the fax.

BOB SLYDELL Ah.

BOB PORTER Then you must physically bring them to the software people.

TOM Well...no. Yeah, I mean, sometimes.

BOB SLYDELL Well, what would you say… you do here?

TOM Well, look, I already told you. I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to!! I have people skills!! I am good at dealing with people!!! Can't you understand that?!? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!!!!!!!

Office Space

"We communicate to the rest of the congregation how God leads us in prayer," Mr. Huizenga said. "This week we will certainly be praying on the marriage issue and the amendment that he is calling for," he said.

Gay-Marriage Fight Finds Ambivalence From Evangelicals
New York Times
February 28, 2004

Ah...

The 76th Academy Awards nominations are out. For 'Actor in a leading role' Johnny Depp and Bill Murray are my favorites. Bill Murray is a great actor, and even though Lost in Translation wasn't great, he did shine. I though The Station Agent was a much better indie movie. It's just nice to see these guys get credit for actually, you know, acting. Pirates of the Caribbean at the Oscars...whodathunkit?

A good friend of mine has a very detailed way of reviewing movies. I like the system a lot, although I have to admit that I'm usually too lazy to put this much effort into a movie review. It would be cool if it caught on though.

Read on for Ben's Movie Review Method (the rest of this is copyright Ben Kite and is not covered by my CC license but is covered by his. So if you use it, make sure you attribute it. Thanks.):

As a Pixar shareholder I'm very pleased to see that Finding Nemo is the #1 selling DVD of all time. After just 14 days on the shelves no less.

[The following is from Ben Kite.]

Here are some reasons why "The Matrix" was good and "The Matrix Reloaded" was not-as-good (or, if you will, candy crap):