View From the Bushes

In reference to the comment from yesterday, coincidently enough Thomas Sowell just barely published an article titled "My Platform" (my guess is that the sti was familiar with the column and that's why he posted it). His platform seems to boil down to three points: eliminate all cabinet level positions other than Defense and State (a great idea in my opinion), eliminate government subsides starting with billionarieres and moving down the line until no one who makes more than $100,000/year gets any money from the government, and finally use the money saved to pay congressmen and government officials about ten times as much as they make now. I think the first two suggestions would have dramatic, even revolutionary effects (and you're free to opine that they would be horribly dramatic and disastrously revolutionary), but the third, while not a bad idea, wouldn't quite pack the same punch as the first two. The problem is that people who want to be politicians are the last people we should have as politicians.

I went to the video store last night to rent Something's Gotta Give. My wife had wanted to see it for a long time and I hadn't taken her while it was in the theater, so the day it came out I tried to make up for it by renting it. In addition, I wanted to rent something for me. There are tons of movies I haven't seen, but browsing through the aisles, not a single one really spoke to me. Actually, I came up with a movie I really wanted to see: The Importance of Being Earnest, but of course those philistines down at Blockbuster didn't have it. I ended up renting The Pianist, which I guess should be good, though I takes a certain mood to enjoy a holocaust film...

In any case, Something's Gotta Give was decent, despite the horrible emotional scars I received from seeing a 57-year old Diane Keaton naked... I was only half watching it, so I may have missed some of the witty repartee, but it's hard to go wrong with Jack Nicholson. My kids want to see Home on the Range, but as you can see it hasn't exactly been getting stellar reviews, though I imagine that's hardly going to matter to my children. I can't see them being dissauded if I told them, "Well, Ebert thought that it was 'insipid and pandering,' he said that 'the voice-acting was uneven and the animation uninspiring,' so what do you say we go see Dawn of the Dead?" (actually, Ebert hasn't posted his review yet so I don't know what he thinks).

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Ross