An excerpt from the video of George Carlin’s comedy routine called “Life Is Worth Losing.”

There’s a reason education sux and will never get better…

“Because the owners of this country don’t want that, the real owners, the big wealthy business owners who own everything and make all the important decisions.”

Key Line: “Forget the politicians. Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners…”

“It’s called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”

MrAndyWhorehall is in Post Production, Release Date to Be Announced

It should be released later this year by Vagabond Films. For more information, check out the Website at DustRadioMovie.

Christopher Becker Whitley (August 31, 1960 – November 20, 2005) was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist.

Highly acclaimed by critics, Whitley achieved modest mainstream success, but had a devoted following. Whitley’s style was rooted primarily in blues, but drew on an array of influences and was constantly changing. In 2001, the New York Times described his arc as “restless, moving into noise-rock and minimalist jazz evoking Chet Baker and Sonic Youth as much as Robert Johnson”.

In fall 2005, Whitley cancelled his tour due to health issues. Dan Whitley, his brother, revealed on November 11, 2005 that he was “in a comfortable warm home with hospice care at his disposal”. Later that week it was revealed that Whitley was terminally ill with lung cancer. He died on November 20, 2005; his brother, Dan, and daughter, Trixie, publicly announced his passing.

Source: Wikipedia

Sometimes a legal summation can capture a story better on video than any editorial column…

Notice we have the ability to deliver messages in this way on the Web Press.

I am sitting here attempting to watch Toyota defend itself before Congress for it’s dangerous cost-cutting in production that led to massive safety issues with the Japanese auto giant’s cars, and it reminds me of the final episode of Boston Legal. You may remember how the litigation division of Denny Crane’s law firm fought off a takeover by the Chinese. Couldn’t find that episode on YouTube, but this is one of the best closing argument speeches from the show.

Read the rest of this entry »

Looking for the muse, just re-watched this movie about a book, not a song…

A Love Song for Bobby Long, a 2004 American drama film written and directed by Shainee Gabel and based on the novel Off Magazine Street by Ronald Everett Capps, was shot on location in New Orleans and Gretna, Louisiana while I lived in the city from 2000-2004. It was released in December, 2004.

The story combines elements of characters and stories from Tennessee Williams and William Faulkner. It focuses on 18-year-old Purslane Will, who leaves the Florida trailer park where she lives with her abusive boyfriend to return to her hometown of New Orleans following the drug overdose death of her jazz singer mother Lorraine, a free spirit she hadn’t seen for several years.

The girl is startled to discover one-time Auburn University professor of literature Bobby Long and his protégé and former teaching assistant, struggling writer Lawson Pines, living in her dilapidated childhood home. Both men are heavy drinkers who while away their days smoking numerous cigarettes, quoting Dylan Thomas, Benjamin Franklin, and T.S. Eliot, playing chess, and spending time with the neighbors while Bobby strums a guitar and sings melancholy country-folk songs.

The case included John Travolta as Bobby Long, Scarlett Johansson as Purslane Will, Gabriel Macht as Lawson Pines, Deborah Kara Unger as Georgianna and Clayne Crawford .as Lee.

A Southern writers tale if there ever was one…

Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge Of The Sith Part 10

They say hindsight is 20-20, but somehow we have to remember these lessons from history and use them to NOT repeat our mistakes. What if some smart Democrat activist had thought to make a TV commercial out of this scene from popular culture against George W. Bush in 2004?

I doubt if any amount of election theft could have helped him get re-elected. Imagine turning the country against him on the line, “you are either with me or against me.”

That is what an insane king, a dictator or a dark lord would say — not the leader of the world’s supposedly greatest democracy…

The Hollywood buzz is, this could be one of the best movies this year…

Four-time Academy Award nominee Jeff Bridges stars as the richly comic, semi-tragic romantic anti-hero Bad Blake in the debut feature film “Crazy Heart” from writer-director Scott Cooper. Also starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Robert Duvall, it is scheduled to be released in theaters December 16.

Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who’s had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can’t help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician. As he struggles down the road of redemption, Bad learns the hard way just how tough life can be on one man’s crazy heart.

Read the rest of this entry »

A cartoon narrated by the late Lenny Bruce

Need I say more this morning? See Facebook…

Is Evolution A Matter of Opinion?

This is one of the key scenes from the movie “Inherit the Wind” about the so-called “Scopes Money Trial” in Dayton, Tennessee. A teacher was accused of the “crime” of teaching evolution to his class, as we wrote about on our trip to Dayton back in March to highlight Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his revolutionary book, On the Origin of Species.

Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species Turns 150

These are the comments made by the authors of the play, according to a Facebook friend who linked to this YouTube page:

“Inherit the Wind is not history. The events which took place in Dayton, Tennessee, during the scorching July of 1925 are clearly the genesis of this play. It has, however, an exodus entirely of its own.

“The collision of Bryan and Darrow at Dayton was dramatic, but it was not a drama. Moreover, the issues of their conflict have acquired new dimension and meaning in the 30 years since they clashed at the Rhea County Courthouse. So Inherit the Wind does not pretend to be journalism. It is theater. It is not 1925. The stage directions set the time as “Not too long ago.” It might have been yesterday. It could be tomorrow.”
– Lawrence and Lee 1955

The Facebook post was inspired by the comments of a so-called “Bible thumper” who said anyone who “believes” in evolution might be a serial killer. Anyone who “believes” that is a moron, especially since most serial killers we find out are religious nuts.

As I pointed out, one of the problems in our society today, with the partisan split that defines us politically, is that too many people “believe” that everything is a matter of opinion.

Philosophy 101: There are matters of opinion, and then there are matters of fact.

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution gives everyone the right to “believe” in Jesus as a matter of opinion, but after more than 100 years of scientific research, there is no doubt that evolution by natural selection is a matter of fact. Believe it. Or not…

A Review of Michael Moore’s ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’

Michael Moore trying to gain entry at GM headquarters in the film Capitalism.

The Big Picture
by Glynn Wilson

If Michael Moore had arrived on the film scene as a conservative Republican activist in 1989, he might be heralded by Fox News today as a major American hero, and he might even be able to get a fair review in the so-called “liberal” New York Times.

Unfortunately for him and his message, he started making movies during the late 1980s, when the presidencies of Republicans Ronald Reagan and then George Herbert Walker Bush made them the target of his outsourcing ire. Moore first became famous for his 1989 film “Roger and Me,” a documentary about what happened to his home town of Flint, Michigan, after General Motors closed its automobile factories and moved to Mexico, where workers made much less.

Since then Moore has been known as a critic of the “neoliberal” view of globalization, according to Wikipedia, although that term goes right over the heads of most of the working people in the U.S. who should be watching his movies and learning something from them. That is the sad state of political dialogue in the good old US of A.

I mean here’s a regular Joe who could be comfortable drinking a beer with George W. Bush, who should be fighting side-by-side with the conservatives who oppose the big government bailout of Wall Street banks.

But because 20 percent of the country still believes somehow that Bush was an OK president, the audience that needs to see this movie the most, average working people struggling to make a living, especially in the South, will not see it because they already dismiss Moore as a “liberal” Democrat “propagandist.”

Although I did find some hope after screening “Capitalism: A Love Story” Friday night in a theater located in a Wal-mart parking lot. That’s an irony considering how Moore takes on the retail giant in his film. (See the After Matter in the end for the hope).

In the film, Moore is his usual bumbling self, just an average “everyman” trying one more time to get into the General Motors headquarters in Michigan, where he is predictably turned away yet again. His now familiar shtick also inspires him to lease an armored truck and make a futile attempt to get the $700 billion in Bush bailout money back from Citibank, AIG and other recipients to transfer it back into the U.S. Treasury.

The best gag for me came near the end, when he stretches yellow crime scene tape around Goldman Sachs on Wall Street, tying it off on the Wall Street Bull (see the photo below).

Read the rest of this entry »