On the big small screen

Ron likes to rent movies, but he often falls asleep during them, and so I found myself last night watching Aeon Flux, the soundtrack accompanied by his loud snoring. The movie's based on an MTV sci-fi cartoon series that was more about style than plot; same here, only with less style.

This forgettable piece of um, fluff wastes the talents of not one but two Best Actress Oscar winners (Charlize Theron, in constant motion, in the title role; Frances McDormand, hardly moving at all, as a hallucination). Spoilers are odious, but the resolution of the plot won't surprise anyone who's ever seen The Island or The Village.

Snow apologizes for mixing up African American Congresswomen

From The Raw Story, a snippet of an apology made by White House Press Secretary Tony Snow after he'd made remarks that confused Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee of Texas with Representative Cynthia McKinney of Georgia: "Also, one important note: On this podium last week--on June 8th--I misidentified Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee as Cynthia McKinney. That prompted a phone call from Representative Jackson-Lee, who was absolutely charming, and we had a wonderful little conversation."

Golly, do you think if Snow had put a bit more effort into it he could have been a bit more patronizing? Yeesh.

Hill Country Gay Association

Cool: there actually are other gay people around here. Hill Country Gay Association.

Roundabout methods

One of Ron's clients recorded a two-sentence message on his computer and e-mailed the resulting WAV file to him. Trying to show off his tech savvy, I guess.

The whole world changed in two weeks

My new favorite blogger, Glenn Greenwald, hits the nail squarely on the head:

For months and months, polls have showed that solid majorities of Americans believe the war was a mistake. That consensus didn't arise as a result of a single event, or a report of a car bomb, or because one bad thing happened. It was because the war itself has been failing fundamentally. Nothing that we wanted to accomplish was actually being accomplished. Everything we said before the war about why we needed to wage it turned out to be false and has been discredited. Far from winning 'hearts and minds' in the Muslim world, few things have harmed how we are perceived in that part of the world (supposedly the current aim of our war effort) more than our occupation has.

This statement comes in the context of a much longer post about how remarkable it is that the media have encouraged us to think that events like killing Zarqawi--dramatic as they are--have changed little on the ground, day to day, in Iraq. It should be tattooed on the palm of the hand of everyone who promoted this useless war and especially those who promoted it but won't fight it to win.

Remember, she's a drag queen!

"She's not a social or political commentator. She's a drag queen impersonating a fascist."

Andrew Sullivan, reducing Ann Coulter and the incivility she embodies to the simplest terms.