Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Skidoo Revoo

People who attended the screening of Skidoo in Hollywood last evening are e-mailing me to say, "It wasn't as bad as you made it out to be" or "It was worse." You folks will have to mud-wrestle to settle this. Me, I think the film transcends ordinary adjectives about quality. Here's another view of it.

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More Recommended Reading

Just found this. David Corn rebuts that William Kristol op-ed about how George W. Bush will go down in history as a great and successful president. I think editors who publish pundits like Kristol, or TV producers who invite them on the air, ought to be asked the following question: Would you entrust your body and your family's health to a doctor whose every diagnosis turned out to be as wrong as the predictions of some of the political commentators you think we ought to hear from?

• Posted at 9:57 PM · LINK

Recommended Reading

Since I've been swamped with work all day and been too busy to post, I now get to do back-to-back links to Fred Kaplan. In this article, he says we're about to see more attempts to read our mail, listen in on our phone conversations, etc. and — this is the troubling part — doing so without accountability or adherence to the law. Lovely.

In the meantime, I can't help but join the chorus of blogs linking to this article. Here's the first paragraph...

BAGHDAD -- In March, he was declared captured. In May, he was declared killed, and his purported corpse was displayed on state-run TV. But Wednesday, Omar al-Baghdadi, the supposed leader of an al-Qaida-affiliated group in Iraq, was declared nonexistent by U.S. military officials, who say he is a fictional character created to give an Iraqi face to a foreign-run terror group.

Tune in tomorrow when Omar al-Baghdadi unmasks and is revealed to be Andy Kaufman.

• Posted at 9:49 PM · LINK