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...Whoopi Goldberg defended Michael Vick's sick sadism as "part of his cultural upbringing" in the South [Sept. 17]? Is she really that stupid, or is she just trying to be controversial? One could offer the same pathetic defense of spousal abuse or even of racists lynching black people, which was definitely a part of many Southern white people's "cultural upbringing." Whether abuse is directed at animals or humans, we should not dignify it with euphemisms...
...spin-off Grey's Anatomy: Los Angeles. Addison Forbes Montgomery (Kate Walsh) hooks up with a group of doctors whose personal entanglements, snappy dialogue and eccentric medical-ethics dilemmas add up to Grey's in a warmer climate. Fine if that's all you need, but if you're sick of TV clones, Practice is not the cure...
...this news is bad for polar bears. Bad for western lowland gorillas. And very bad for people as well. When the winter freeze comes later in China, a disease-carrying water snail will have all kinds of new opportunities to make people sick. By 2085 an extra billion people will be at risk of contracting dengue fever because of changes in temperature and rainfall. And in yet another grim award ceremony, the Blacksmith Institute released its list of the world's most polluted places; it should not surprise anyone that people die faster in such spots...
...haven't often found such a cockeyed, clear-eyed justification for nostalgia - which for Maddin can mean both homesickness and sick-of-homeness. His movie, whatever the man in the TIFF audience thought, has a passion and poignancy that can come only from an artist who loves his city, and its people, and his family, for its failings no less than for its chilly charms. An aging prairie town that has lost some of its grandest relics, Winnipeg is like any person, middle-age or older, who cherishes what he once had every bit as much as he regrets what...
There are many people, of course, who don't need to be reminded to remember. There are the moms sending children who never met their fathers off to their first day of kindergarten. There are the first responders who are discovering that they are sick and in need of treatment, including 2000 New York City fire fighters. There are the presidential candidates who regularly patrol the sacred ground; Giuliani goes there in every speech, Edwards talked about confronting terrorism a few blocks from Ground Zero, and the entire political debate this week is wrapped around the progress...