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this blog is named after some postcards that came in the mail from the mojave desert town, pop. 4,830, from someone i didn't know, containing unsolicited and wayward views on issues of the day, including newspaper clippings and handmade cartoons.
Thursday, November 06, 2003
i've been outside too much lately and it's taken almost this long to see mystic river twice and come back to say that it is a good movie. you should go see that movie. not sure exactly why i like it so much, but i think its partly bc most movies update some overused billy wilder movie or maybe hamlet into something starring someone like goldie hawn's awful daughter, but this thing takes a vampire story of all things and adapts it to a crime drama in catholic boston with sean penn.
you'll be happy to see on the posting to the right that slate has weighed in on an earlier comment on this page regarding schwarzenneger's good start at a triumphant defeat of casino corporations. my only point of departure with peter scheer's conclusion that such corporations are evil, however, is that i do not believe such evil played the role in voters' minds and press coverage of the campaign that he says it did. scheer optimistically presents a scenario that goes: Arianna Huffington criticized Bustamante for Indian money and his numbers went down. but i say nobody heard or cared about that Huffington charge or anything else that came out of her mouth--except her accent and jokes about Schwarzenneger's treatment of women. The reason Bustamante lost his lead is that he ran an ethnic campaign that divided voters (although, incidentally, he never legislated effectively for latinos as speaker of the house and probably would not have as governor)--and this decision for an ethnic campaign was endlessly covered in an implicit way by the press to a point where it very clearly defined his candidacy. important issues, such as evil casinos that have overtaken the state and don't pay the taxes that could help save the budget and social services, played very little role in voters' minds and very little in press coverage of the recall.
you'll be happy to see on the posting to the right that slate has weighed in on an earlier comment on this page regarding schwarzenneger's good start at a triumphant defeat of casino corporations. my only point of departure with peter scheer's conclusion that such corporations are evil, however, is that i do not believe such evil played the role in voters' minds and press coverage of the campaign that he says it did. scheer optimistically presents a scenario that goes: Arianna Huffington criticized Bustamante for Indian money and his numbers went down. but i say nobody heard or cared about that Huffington charge or anything else that came out of her mouth--except her accent and jokes about Schwarzenneger's treatment of women. The reason Bustamante lost his lead is that he ran an ethnic campaign that divided voters (although, incidentally, he never legislated effectively for latinos as speaker of the house and probably would not have as governor)--and this decision for an ethnic campaign was endlessly covered in an implicit way by the press to a point where it very clearly defined his candidacy. important issues, such as evil casinos that have overtaken the state and don't pay the taxes that could help save the budget and social services, played very little role in voters' minds and very little in press coverage of the recall.
