tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31718272008-02-27T01:54:00.214-05:00Mind Over What MattersJaynoreply@blogger.comBlogger348125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171827.post-58640841896985050142007-09-01T06:09:00.000-04:002007-09-01T20:29:13.135-04:00KINGDOM COMING
Sneaking up on unsuspecting American audiences at the end of September is a new movie from director Peter Berg called The Kingdom. If all you know of it so far is the poster of Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner wielding assault rifles, just understand that this pic presents a challenging marketing problem, and be grateful it was ever greenlighted at all. I was fortunate enough to Jaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171827.post-37285682450892632152007-08-06T22:56:00.001-04:002007-08-06T23:01:17.226-04:00Jaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171827.post-27379005872792778612007-07-20T19:14:00.000-04:002007-09-06T17:47:23.751-04:00SCOTT THOMAS BEAUCHAMP'S "COMFORTING NARRATIVE"
As with most folk tales and urban legends, the anecdotes of The New Republic's latest fabulist, "Scott Thomas Beauchamp", inform us little of real people or actual events; rather, they serve to amplify the "comforting narrative" -- a heavily fictionalized, distorted view of reality which, to a certain mindset, provides an explanation for the Jaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171827.post-56597597395442338972007-05-06T10:43:00.000-04:002007-05-06T10:55:54.261-04:00FOX NEWS SUNDAY WITH CHRIS WALLACE, May 6, 2007:
Chris Wallace: Senator, Ross Perot used to talk about putting his plan for America on a bumper sticker. So let me ask you, in just a few words what is your core platform?
Chris Dodd:
Jaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171827.post-1133497870013663992005-12-01T23:27:00.000-05:002006-01-04T20:55:21.010-05:00NEWSCETNER 4 HAS THE SCOOP:
Jaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171827.post-1127846207462804562005-09-27T14:34:00.000-04:002005-10-13T18:58:42.000-04:00WE SHALL SEE . . .
"Joss Whedon, the Oscar® - and Emmy - nominated writer/director responsible for the worldwide television phenomena of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE, ANGEL and FIREFLY, now applies his trademark compassion and wit to a small band of galactic outcasts 500 years in the future in his feature film directorial debut, Serenity. The film centers around Captain Malcolm Reynolds, a hardened veteranJaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171827.post-1126447522882954702005-09-11T09:59:00.000-04:002005-09-11T10:05:22.886-04:00"RUDY, DO YOU KNOW WHAT I INTEND? I INTEND TO BE A QUEEN."
And when I go out in my coach, all the people will wave at me, and I will SHOUT at them.Jaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171827.post-1099409931003667532004-11-02T10:36:00.000-05:002004-11-02T10:38:51.003-05:00QUOTE WITHOUT COMMENT:
Jaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171827.post-1095289792538056962004-09-15T18:56:00.000-04:002005-12-16T02:07:02.680-05:00BY WAY OF EXPLANATION ...
For those few readers who still occasionally check their old blogrolls to see if I'm ever going to account for the past year-plus I've spent AWOL ....
Well, surely you'll recall the Douglas Adams character Hotblack Desiato -- lead singer of the rock group Disaster Area -- who infamously spent a year dead "for tax reasons."
Pretty much the same deal for me, I'm Jaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171827.post-1085783726197435942004-05-28T18:31:00.000-04:002004-05-28T18:35:26.196-04:00HARLAN IS 70 ...
He's always been 70.Jaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171827.post-1083974789657819382004-05-07T20:06:00.000-04:002004-05-07T20:12:33.623-04:00LET'S SEE ... WHERE WAS I ???
Michael Moore's documentary, Farenheit 911, was tailor-made to generate controversy and publicity -- for himself -- and in that, he's once again succeeded admirably.
Michael Moore has NOT been censored. Granted, few films are so transparently blocked for solely political reasons, and Disney has shown extreme cowardice here. If Disney believes Moore's new Jaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171827.post-1067536301715447122003-10-30T12:37:00.000-05:002003-10-30T12:53:59.186-05:00THERE WILL BE A RELAUNCH...
Obviously, my mind has been a million miles away from this page for several months. For now, let's just say that my circumstances do not presently allow for regular, active blogging, and leave it at that.
Mind Over What Matters will relaunch just as soon as I am able to write on a scale and frequency that will make it worth the effort again. In the meantime, Jaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171827.post-1062168987238419742003-08-29T10:56:00.000-04:002003-08-29T10:56:27.230-04:00Jaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171827.post-1059168610682777612003-07-25T17:30:00.000-04:002003-07-25T17:32:50.626-04:00NEWS ALERT OF THE DAY:
And at the end of this morning's briefing, Press Secretary Scott McClellan added: "About &#$@! time, too!"Jaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171827.post-957324712003-06-16T18:45:00.000-04:002003-06-17T13:24:16.000-04:00GON OUT
BACKSON
BISY
BACKSONJaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171827.post-948003642003-05-23T16:04:00.000-04:002003-05-23T16:05:16.000-04:00MOOD:
Jaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171827.post-947005272003-05-21T15:46:00.000-04:002003-05-23T12:28:49.000-04:00CHRIS HEDGES? Chris Hedges! I knew that name rang a bell. Mind Over What Matters was on this guy's case back in October 2001, when this blog was very young, and Hedges was claiming that Israeli soldiers were being allowed to shoot Pali children -- "for sport!"
Those were his exact words. I transcribed his deranged tirade myself from -- where else? -- NPR's archived streaming audio interview:Jaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171827.post-945983582003-05-19T16:55:00.000-04:002003-05-23T11:37:11.000-04:00MUST SEE TV: Perhaps I should have weighed in earlier, when this story was amply covered every elsewhere -- but I felt no compulsion to dignify Rachel Corrie's fatal publicity stunt with a mention on this page until I received the following announcement from the ABC News "Nightline" mailing list today:
...tonight, ABC correspondent Hillary Brown with a glimpse inside the International SolidarityJaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171827.post-938837312003-05-06T16:45:00.000-04:002003-05-06T17:39:38.000-04:00HONORARY VON HOFFMAN AWARD: Tom Tomorrow's weekly syndicated cartoon cynically predicts that India may shortly use America's succesful liberation of Iraq to justify its own pre-emptive strike against Pakistan:
And yet, two days before his strip was posted on Salon, India appeared to be moving in exactly the opposite direction:
On Friday, [Prime Minister Atal Bihari] Vajpayee ended a Jaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171827.post-929942012003-04-21T14:02:00.000-04:002003-05-06T13:05:33.000-04:00
UPDATE: Regrettably, I'll have to miss this one, too. My little peer group (of three) has a prior engagement on the same evening: Reserved tickets for Matrix Unloaded. Sorry, folks. Next time for sure.
Jaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171827.post-927836672003-04-17T11:52:00.000-04:002003-04-17T12:02:48.000-04:00FRANK TALK: Almost as an afterthought, Slate's Today's Papers mentions that Gen. Tommy Franks — currently conducting an on-site inspection of Hussein's Baghdad properties — proposed a new name for the U.N.'s oil-for-food program when confronted with the splendor of Saddam's abode: "It was an oil-for-palace program."Jaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171827.post-927815002003-04-17T11:13:00.000-04:002003-04-17T11:36:46.000-04:00WE LOVE THE AMERICAN MISINFORMATION MINISTER: Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, "Baghdad Ted" Rall insists that we've "lost the war."
This Administration's policy of perpetual war has become a case study in entropy, the distinctly pessimistic notion that no matter how bad things get we can figure out a way to make them worse. Entropy triumphed in Afghanistan, as the world's worstJaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171827.post-927692192003-04-17T05:37:00.000-04:002003-04-17T05:49:27.000-04:00VIVA LA SIGNAGE! This page doesn't link to Jim Treacher often enough. Consider that sin of omission rectified. Here's a sign Jim is looking forward to seeing at a real protest rally any day now:
Jaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171827.post-927507402003-04-16T21:48:00.000-04:002003-04-17T12:13:44.000-04:00WORDS MATTER: Haven't been watching The News Hour regularly in a good long while — and here's a perfect example of why I've come to loathe PBS's timid excuse for a nightly news program:
I happened to catch the first couple of minutes of tonight's news summary on the radio rebroadcast, during which Jim Lehrer briefly reported — with an earnest expression, I'm sure — that US forces Jaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3171827.post-927377772003-04-16T17:14:00.000-04:002003-04-16T18:31:27.000-04:00GIVE UNTIL IT HURTS! The "National Network to End the War Against Iraq" is still soliciting donations! You'd think they'd be delighted to declare victory and go home -- but no, these people still want your money. One might almost suspect that their real purpose is to perpetuate the organization rather than accomplishing any actual goals...
Among this organization's many embarrassing, Jaynoreply@blogger.com