Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Recommended Reading

Ezra Klein on the intolerable health care system in this country. This is going to be a big issue in the next few years and we will eventually see almost everyone who ever opposed Universal Health Care not only not opposing it but taking credit for whatever progress is made in that area.

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Today's Bonus Video Link

People send me links for a lot of these bogus trailers where someone with video editing software and a lot of time and patience has merged two very different movies into one. This mix intermingles Singin' in the Rain and Star Wars and it made me laugh so it goes up here on the weblog. It's an ifilm link and since those don't always embed well, we like to include the direct address in case clicking below doesn't work on your computer. Go for it.

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Recommended Reading

Bob Newhart on the day after Christmas. And I should mention that I enjoyed Mr. Newhart's recently-issued autobiography, which is entitled I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This: And Other Things That Strike Me as Funny. It's a small, quiet book full of Newhart-style wit, which means it's quite humorous. I don't understand a few things that aren't in it...like, I didn't notice any mention of his first TV series, the one that won the Emmy as Best Show after it was cancelled. (That was the first time that had ever happened. I think Taxi was the second.) But hey, he's Bob Newhart. Here's an Amazon link to order the thing if you feel about him the way I do.

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Recommended Clicking

One more bit of Christmas animation you might want to check out before it goes away. It's the Garfield version of The Twelve Days of Christmas. Very clever stuff.

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Today's Video Link

There's a great charity in New York called Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Basically, it's folks in the theatrical community doing whatever they can to raise money to fight that dread disease. Among the many ways they do this is by putting on star-studded benefits. Here's a nice little montage that shows two and a half minutes from their recent events...

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Recommended Reading

John Kerry, whose chances of being the Democratic nominee in 2008 are only a little better than mine, writes that "flip-flopping" is not a bad thing, especially when it turns out you're not right. I agree...although I may change my mind about that.

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