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Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Bush is No Batman

It was bound to happen. When I saw The Dark Knight this past week, I couldn’t help but note the allusions to the war on terror:

The Joker as the “terrorist” of Gotham
The technology that allows Batman to listen in to everyone in Gotham
And the comic-book morality that Batman can, in the words of Alfred, “make […]

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

If Republicans Had Written Our Best Movies: Take I

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
In the original version of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Jimmie Stewart plays Rance Stoddard, an attorney who believes in law and order. John Wayne plays Tom Doniphon, a rancher who believes that there is no law and that “out here a man settles his own problems.” Lee […]

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

When Republican Terror Marketing Collapses

President Bush and the neo-conservatives have argued for some time for waterboarding and intelligence techniques to elicit information from detainees.
The argument Bush uses is very similar to the following: we’ve got to give intelligence experts the tools they need in order to extract information to prevent terrorist attacks.
“The bill Congress sent me would take away […]