Palpatine vs. Mace Windu

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith is playing on television right now, which reminds me of my favorite scene.  Enjoy!

The Dark Knight Trailer – Countdown: 17 Days!

I hope you are as excited as I am to watch the new Batman movie. And here we…go!

Christopher Hitchens on "Waterboarding"

In his piece in Vanity Fair, Christopher Hitchens, who is a big proponent of the occupation of Iraq and apparently flipping off the audience on Real Time With Bill Maher, has decided to put an end to the debate over whether waterboarding is torture or not by trying it himself.  His shocking conclusion? “Believe me, it’s torture.”  

Let’s Play A Game Of…

How long will it take John Yoo to answer this question?

At the House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing last week which essentially contemplates whether we should continue to use euphemisms for the word torture and whether torture is actually…well…torture, John Yoo spends a good minute and 55 seconds thinking about whether Presidents should order people to be buried alive.  

Obama: NO to Gay Marriage Ban in California

Though many have been disappointed that Obama has repositioned some of his policy stances to the center (which is the right to me), today he is standing firm in favor of gay rights and against Prop. 8 that would ban gay marriage in California.  Good for us!

WALL-E

From the myriad of issues that matter to me like US foreign policy, the Palestinian struggle, Egypt’s cluster-*bleep* of a state, the latest Coldplay album, and the fact that Radiohead is the greatest band to walk the Earth, I’ve chosen to write my first post on a movie I saw last night: WALL-E.  

WALL-E lives up to its cute-o-meter expectations.  While most movies employ some kind of suspension from logic (like robots having feelings), WALL-E cleverly humanizes the machine with as little dialogue as you can imagine.  Two words dominate this Pixar picture: WALL-E and EV-A.  It usually takes more to humanize wildlife, breathing animals which at some point break out into a catchy song in movies of this ilk.  However, somehow WALL-E’s binocular-like lenses (eyes) are more expressive than actual words.  WALL-E breaks away from the formula Disney/Pixar movies while staying true to the simple love story between two robots and the fate of robot-dependent humans with an apparent obesity epidemic.  I wondered, if machines were so abundant, wouldn’t there be a treadmill lurking around somewhere?  Overall, this movie is definitely worth seeing for people of all ages.