SAVED! Crash

Last night I watched Crash and all I could think was "There is no way people, I mean REAL people can be this racist. Which put me in mind of watching Saved! with two High School friends and Jen Perkins. After the movie my High School Friends said "that movie was kind of stupid. No one is like that in real life. I mean if people were really like that maybe they would have a point ... But NO ONE is that Jesus obsessed." To which Jen and I replied "No, there are people like that, you are just lucky enough to have never met any of them."
Reflecting on the parallel between their experience watching Saved!, and my experience watching Crash made me feel both very lucky and very sad. I think deep down I still believe NO ONE is REALLY racist. The concept is too foreign to me.

Bitter

We finaly have a Hockey Season and I can't watch the games ... no hockey is being broadcast in my area.

Book Banning

So, Blandus, Mr. Cook and I are having a fun little chat about Banned Book Week over at The Ockhamist.

READ BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS

True Enough

From News of the Weird

"Judge Jeffrey K. Sprecher of Berks County, Pa., dismissed charges against a man in August for buying beer for his underage neighbor, ruling that the prosecutor hadn't proved all of the elements of the crime. Specifically, said Sprecher, there was no evidence offered that Miller Genuine Draft is "beer." (Prosecutors usually submit a government-created listing of beers as proof but failed to do that.)"

Hurricane KAT and my own self-centeredness

Today the idea that New Orleans might not be rebuilt suddenly hit me hard today. It was on my mind all day. I wasn't thinking about all the people who lost their homes, nor even directly about all the national history lost. All I was thinking about was the fact that New Orleans is/was one of about maybe one 1/2 dozen cities left in the world that I wanted to see before I die that I haven't seen yet ... and now I might never get the chance ... because I may have passed up every opportunity to see the city. Even if I see it now (after it is rebuilt) it wont be the same. I guess KAT put me in mind now of all the opportunities lost forever.