Gordon Dymowski

In his films, Rambo is constantly portrayed as judge, jury, and executioner in the national and international spheres. Obviously outside the scope of American law, Rambo holds an incorruptible sense of morality and justice. Furthermore, in the world of Rambo there are no moral conundrums, and everything is black and white, with no shades of gray. - Jonathan Lee

mostly tinfoil hattery, but if you think your packets go *anywhere* on the interwebs without the possibility of interception, you are probably sadly mistaken. also, i could be wrong about this, but bin laden is probably not spending a great deal of time on facebook updating his status ("this cave is very cold today") and poking al-zawahiri. - Karim

Nah, Al-Zawahiri gets the SuperPokes. - Brian Chang

:-D - Karim

"Credited as one of the originators of the Japanese "New Wave" alongside Masahiro Shinoda, Kiju Yoshida, and the late Shohei Imamura, director Nagisa Oshima (born 1932) — who's being celebrated at the Harvard Film Archive this month — is among the generation that came of age during wartime and its uncertain aftermath. Working under the aegis of iron-fisted Shochiku Studio head Shiro Kido, Oshima and his contemporaries rejected the slick, Hollywood-inspired productions that Shochiku had been known for turning out month after month in favor of nihilistic films featuring the generation of sex-crazed, violent adolescents known as the "taiyozoku," or the "Sun Tribe."" - TStowers via Bookmarklet

"Does it strike anyone reading this as ironic that the lone black man on the Supreme Court of these divided states is the one member of the Supremes who gave this case a snow ball's chance in hell of surviving? Does it strike anyone as ironic that one of the people who sued to have the certification of the O man's votes halted was a black man? (Alan Keys) I am not surprised. You see, I understand what Malcolm was talking about. A lot of you hate that house Negro field Negro metaphor because you think it divides is. But it doesn't. It was simply his way of commenting about our condition at the time. A condition which still persists today, and which is as relevant now as it ever was." - Steven Perez via Bookmarklet

donofrio's position is completely without merit because it attaches importance to obama's kenyan father. the fact that his father was kenyan doesn't matter. all that matters is whether obama was born on u.s. soil, and it's clear that he was. the case will be closed tomorrow instead of being dragged on for days. - Karim

the fact that people are attaching some kind of significance to justice thomas' race is disturbing. - Karim

"In a highly unusual move, U.S. Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has asked his colleagues on the court to consider the request of an East Brunswick, N.J. attorney who has filed a lawsuit challenging President-elect Barack Obama’s status as a United States citizen. Thomas’s action took place after Justice David Souter had rejected a petition known as an application for a stay of writ of certiorari that asked the court to prevent the meeting of the Electoral College on Dec. 15, which will certify Obama as the 44th president of the United States and its first African-American president. The court has scheduled a Dec. 5 conference on the writ -- just 10 days before the Electoral College meets. The high court’s only African American is bringing the matter to his colleagues as a result of the writ that was filed by attorney Leo Donofrio. Donofrio sued the New Jersey Secretary of State Nina Wells, contending that Obama was not qualified to be on the state’s presidential ballot because of D" - Vox via Bookmarklet

perfect title vox! - V for Veselka

*bangs head against table* - Abby Martin

Want. - Jeanine Walters

Jeanine, I gotted you a chocolate crunch doughnut... but I eated it. :( - Ladybug Heather

LOL. Youz BAD! I'm coming to get you! - Jeanine Walters

"This is the strategy of the torture defenders: render this debate once again a red-blue, right-left ding-dong, culture war struggle. It isn't. It's a foundational, moral and constitutional issue that transcends all those categories. And the NYT does its readers a disservice in occluding that." - Rick Powell via Bookmarklet

I agree about Chicago. :-) Don't know about Houston as I've never been. - Jill, Superhero Librarian

I spent my high school years in H-Town, and Sharpstown always had the best Oriental food, even better than Chicago's. But not better than my Vietnamese aunt's cooking. :) - Steven Perez via IM