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...balance between making the film a primer for fans new to Potter lore, yet simultaneously, assuming that its audience knows the complex history behind the characters. Aside from the prerequisite villain, the unpleasant characters that readers love to hate from the books don’t seem nearly as vile as they do in Rowling’s books. Both Harry’s arch-nemeses at Hogwarts, the spoiled Draco Malfoy and the leering Potions Professor Severus Snape, are given limited exposure time in the film, thus de-emphasizing the obvious tension that exists between the characters...
RaHoWa's Cult of the Holy War CD, with its rants urging whites to kill "vile, alien hordes" and destroy the Jews, is typical fare for Resistance Records, the world's leading purveyor of "hate-core" music. Some other hot titles from Resistance's catalog: Nordic Thunder's Born to Hate and Centurion's Fourteen Words. The 14 words? "We Must Secure the Existence of Our Race and a Future for White Children," as the CD jacket helpfully notes...
...Plot to Kill U.S. Investigators." "Bin Laden Group Planned to Blow Up U.S. Embassy in India?" And finally, at week's end, U.S. forces all over the Gulf confined to barracks and ships put to sea because of a "non-specific but credible threat" from Bin Laden's group. Vile acts and wretched conspiracies reported from all over the world, all carrying the imprimatur of the Saudi terror tycoon skulking in the hills of Afghanistan, his name now the globally recognizable shorthand for Islamist terror in the same way that "Xerox" has become for "photocopy...
Carlson perpetuates the bad science and vile scare tactics that made headlines about silicone breast implants and alar. Just because there are toxic levels for anything you care to name, including oxygen and water, doesn't mean that less is always better. I think it's the carcinogens in barbecued meat that make it taste so good. What the world needs is rational thinking and cost-vs.-benefit analysis, not people like Carlson using her own fear and ignorance to beat conservatives over the head. I remember an old chemist's adage that there are no toxic compounds, only toxic...
...that the clock of the patient's mind is a few seconds off. Then an encroaching recognition of loss of function becomes less recognition and greater loss. Soon words and phrases are looped, like mad lines from a postmodern play; then Tourette's-like bursts, frags, some incomprehensible, some vile; then less of that, less of everything, until the mind is concentrated down to a curious stare. Even in death, my mother's face looked worried...