Word: passional
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...That was a rare moment of passion during a soporific day of questioning. Indeed, all of Washington seems buried under a goose-down comforter of complacency these days. The Republicans are smug, the Democrats disconsolate. The news from Iraq grows worse, but the electorate didn't seem to care about the President's Mesopotamian malfeasance in November, so why get all het up about it now? The astounding news that the Bush Administration was involved in reinterpreting the rules for the use of torture-a fact that has been known since the relevant Justice Department memo was leaked last June...
...their children are pressing them to get the latest games now. As a result, many moms and dads, even a few of those who consider the violent and sexual content in some of the most popular games objectionable, can find it hard not to give in to their kids' passion for them. Therese Palmer, 42, of Rockwall, Texas, once picketed a store that sold violent toys, but she admits that she lets her two sons, 9 and 15, play Grand Theft Auto and other Mrated games. "I hate that the games are violent and so over the top, but this...
...Brien's passion began when he was a Georgia Tech graduate student specializing in medical scans. Over drinks, friends told him they were creating a computer simulation of a man diving into a pool. "They said the water would be ridiculously hard to get right," O'Brien says. But O'Brien thought it was simply a matter of doing the math...
...guesses. One: ?Fahrenheit? will be a Best Picture finalist. Hollywood was Kerry Country; it loves a liberal king and, even more, a kingmaker. Two: no ?Passion,? no way. The reflexively liberal Hollywood elders hated the movie (usually without seeing it) before it opened - that has to be why they refused to distribute it - and they hated it more when it became an indie blockbuster. So Gibson has as much chance of getting a top nomination from the Academy as Moore did of getting a ?Fahrenheit? screening at the White House...
...than before. Moore has been planning a documentary on health care, which should be ever more timely as the Administration pushes its privatization angle on Social Security. Of course Moore and his fellow Savonarolas will once again be preaching to the choir. But as ?Fahrenheit 9/11? indicated, and ?The Passion of the Christ? proved, a choir can be in the tens of millions. And watch out, rest-of-America. Neither choir is likely to shut...