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...time die-hard fans were trekking out to see Revenge of the Sith for the fifth time, others had ditched their Yoda suits to blog about the film's politics. Some lambasted Lucas for a purported liberal agenda that seems to equate Bush with the dark side. "Grow a spine and boycott the movie," argued a right-wing fan on BLOGS FOR BUSH. While conservatives raged, others defended the film. "Get a life!" said a posting on CENTERFIELD. "It isn't Hollywood's fault there aren't any talented right-wing filmmakers." The verdict from INSTAPUNDIT? Politically neutral but weak...
...advantage of it before the gods get wise and call in the debt,” Morrow writes with a flourish. But JFK himself was certainly not spared the gods’ wrath: he suffered from Addison’s disease, the treatments for which would painfully deteriorate his spine...
...have an eidetic memory of when I first read Dangling Man, a faded Penguin edition with an orange spine. I was 14 years old, Chicago born (like Augie; his creator was actually born in Montreal and came to this country when he was 9 years old). It showed me that literature could be fabricated out of the material of common life--in my case, common Chicago life. Bellow's work, from first to last, is the biography of a place, a map of his own consciousness as it evolves against the backdrop of the bleak industrial city, with its stockyards...
...That tells you this is a patient who wants control. In some patients the psychological impact of being able to open a pill bottle, pull out a pill and take it gives them some sense of control in their life. If you have a pump sending medication into your spine, or a patch on your skin, you in fact may feel out of control...
Klein implied that John Kerry lost the election because a lot of Southern Christians felt ignored by the Democrats. But Klein overlooks the fact that President Bush has shown himself to be a strong leader with a spine of solid steel. Kerry's claims that he would "hunt down and kill the terrorists, wherever they are" were not believable, coming from someone with a 20-year demonstrated lack of leadership in the Senate...