We Have Always Been at War with Oceania
Quaker Dave says all the needs to be said about BushCo's National Sanctity of Human Life Day. As usual the thought occurs: if someone made a movie about a presidency as audacious and dissolute as this one, nobody would believe it.
Speaking of movies - you can read this brilliant NYT story about a soccer team called the Fugees, as in "refugees," or you can wait for the movie to come out. Don't wait.
via FDL: A commenter, who has experience with the situation described in the Fugees story, writes in with some clarification. It seems that the reporter may have overstated the class differences between the Fugees and the rest of the Clarkson universe, which I expected to be the case when I linked to it. The thing reads like Dickens. But that failing doesn't touch the heart of the story, which you'll see if you read it.
The NY Times article on the Fugees is very touching.
Posted by: Comandante Agi | January 23, 2007 at 01:44 PM
I recommended it b/c of the coach's arrest not so much the class aspects. The reaction of her players really hit me.
Posted by: eRobin | January 23, 2007 at 03:45 PM
“She’s a girl — she doesn’t know what she’s talking about,” Ms. Mufleh overheard a Sudanese boy say at an early practice.
She ordered him to stand in the goal. As the team watched, she blasted a shot directly at the boy, who dove out of the way.
“Anybody else?” she asked.
I like her. Haven't got to the arrest!?! yet.
Posted by: Thomas Nephew | January 23, 2007 at 06:56 PM
What a story.
Posted by: Thomas Nephew | January 23, 2007 at 07:05 PM
She really is something else.
Posted by: eRobin | January 23, 2007 at 10:58 PM
Heavy indeed. Maybe now he plays goalkeeper.
Posted by: Comandante Agi | January 25, 2007 at 09:51 PM