I'd much rather be wrong

Back when we were running up to the war in Iraq, I said to some friends that I believed this would involve us in a civil war for the next 50 years. Today in the Washington Post I read:

"President Bush envisions a long-term U.S. troop presence in Iraq similar to the one in South Korea where American forces have helped keep an uneasy peace for more than 50 years, the White House said Wednesday.

... [Tony] Snow said it was impossible to say if U.S. troops would remain in Iraq for some 50 years, as they have in South Korea. 'I don't know,' he said.'"It is an unanswerable question. But I'm not making that suggestion. ... The war on terror is a long war.'"

When I estimated 50 years, I thought I was exaggerating. I really hope I'm wrong on this one... at this rate, we're talking over 50,000 US casualties, and who knows how many more Iraqi casualties in that time!

It's been a while

Sorry it's been so long, but I've been sick. I haven't really been up to doing too much web stuff. However, I'm still here :-)!

Everything old is new again

I had an interesting thought yesterday-- the mid 2000s seems a lot like the early '70s. "Gonzogate" has many similarities to Watergate; it now has it's own "Wednesday Night Massacre." Also, the war in Iraq is as bad as, if not worse than Vietnam. About the only significant difference is that Nixon, as awful and paranoid as he was, at least appeared to have some intelligence. Bush is about witless, with the nice-for-him consequence that he's not paranoid at all. Everything is great, just ask him!

Please please give me a break

The MPAA today said that depiction of smoking can now affect a film's ratings! If it is glamorized or pervasive, a PG-13 movie can be given an R rating. Are we sure that we're in the 21st century? I've never smoked a cigarette or anything else in my whole life, but I've seen countless movies where the characters do. It must be a miracle! Those evil Hollywood smokers didn't turn me! The most annoying upshot of this is that now, watered down, teen horror movies that used to be PG-13 can be R rated. It's going to be so bland that one day a film like Arachnophobia will be considered a gore fest!

Another reason to hate Fox!

I just found out today that Fox won't produce any more NYPD Blue DVDs! "Poor sales," they claim, of seasons 1-4. This frustrates me to no end. Jeez, you can buy Dukes of Hazzard or Wonder Woman but not Blue!? Well, as I said, just another reason to hate Fox!

To "awaken thrilling horror"

I'm starting to write reviews of horror films at www.classic-horror.com! My first one, a review of John Carpenter's The Thing, has already been published. I'm now working on a review of the 1931 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It should be up soon!

The surge

April was the deadliest month for our troops in Iraq, as well as for British troops. Despite all the claims of "progress" that have been made, it seems that mostly what the surge has done is give the insurgency (remember... the one that Donald Rumsfeld told us was in the "last throes") more targets to shoot at. This is just awful and disgusting!