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… a bit sensationalist. (Re: My review of I Am Legend)

In retrospect (or perhaps due to it slowly fading from memory) I Am Legend is not the near-perfect movie I said it was. The action wasn’t that intense and while I say that Will Smith’s acting was so good you almost didn’t think it was acting, you know he’s acting and you analyze him as an actor. I still stand by that it was the best movie I saw in theaters in 2007. Its a good thing that I saw it in December.

Why? Why am I downplaying or seemingly retracting what I said about I Am Legend? Why did I imply that it’s reign ended early in 2008?

Put simply, Cloverfield. (continue reading…)

“My job as a candidate for president is to speak the truth as I see it.” – John Edwards, Presidential candidate. [src]

How about just speaking the plain old truth – unmarred and untampered by any particular worldview?

So at work today, I found myself flipping through an issue of TIME magazine and thought I’d write about what I read (given the lacking amount of authoring coming from OhYo and HT). For those of you few people who don’t get TIME stocked upon your magazine racks at home, you might want to read that article before you continue to read this one.

Let me begin.

For any person, acknowledging the fact that the majority of people don’t mind the current government (but proclaim the opposite) and tell people that politicians run almost solely for their own ego- is quite a feat. It takes a person who is honest and quite bold to say that.

But think about it, it’s true. However, in his article, Michael Kinsley (the author, duh?) implies that this ambition is part of nature and almost.. excusable. To a degree, I agree with that, but there is so much more to the story. This idea of ambition being imparted upon graduates is not just about being the best you can be- it’s about helping society in how we act and the accomplishments we achieve. Frankly, we pervert that into being a solely self-seeking philosophy- get the best education we can, get the best job we can, get the best spouse we can, get the best car we can, have the most power we can… Granted, none of those things is inherently wrong, but it has become our society’s sole aim and focus (and when I say our society, I mean us).

I guess I don’t know where I’m going with this… As I read the article, I just got this sense of pardon from the author- like it was OK to have your ego stroked and strive only for self aggrandizement.

I’ve gotten a bit of backlash about my last post. People have called me negative, a “typical” Republican, etc. Don’t worry, I’m not “liberal bashing.” I apologize if you think so. While I don’t agree with the whole Democrat/Liberal party line, the Repubs have just as many problems when it comes to self-control and practicing some sense of morality. What I can’t stand, however, is this utter nonsense that politicians spew forth. Obama and Hillary arguing, Kerry backing Obama instead of Edwards (like his opinion really matters), Giuliani trying to sound moralistic when he’s had more wives/mistresses than Dick Cheney has had heart surgeries. I could go on about the bickering between Huckabee and Romney and allegations of campaign fund fraud, but I won’t.

The candidate who can rise to the level of being selfless in their ambition, humble about their accomplishments, and become more than just “the black guy”, “the woman”, “the POW”, “the mormon”, “the Christian”, or whatever their social sect might be- that person is who will be getting my vote.

I really need to stop writing about politics.

Imagine the money to be gained if a shipping company was able to send packages across time and space constraints. Imagine how revolutionary that would be…

I ordered a laptop nigh unto 10 days ago and it was shipped on Tuesday. While the end-to-end trip was not close to immediate, various stops along the way actually take it back in time. I present to you proof that FedEx has finally broken the time space continuum.

Or, to put that chronologically-

So, as you can see, the shipment arrived in Alaska before it left China, and arrived in Indianapolis before it arrived in Alaska. At this rate, I should have my new laptop by yesterday!

As a humble apology and desperate attempt to bring you content you haven’t seen yet, I give you… Cry baby Hillary.

One of the things that I love about Hillary, absolutely LOVE, is how she can sound like she’s making sense, but be speaking nonsense at the same time. For instance, the last sentence of that video clip is: “I just believe so strongly in who we are as a nation.” Huhwah? Now me, I personally believe so strongly in the child-like youth of a newborn baby. What does that even mean?

To add to the laughability, Hillary has completely altered her appearance to be more “I can change things, I’ll do what you want” etc etc, and yet in her short stint so far as senator, she’s accomplished next to nothing and she does not do what I want: quit. If she can’t even successfully follow through with eating right and excercising (as she says in the clip), how is she going to run a nation? She makes a huge deal (somewhat in this video, more elsewhere) about how being apart of a previous presidency (yet she never calls it what it is: a giant coattail ride the likes of which even Six Flags can’t even dream about) has given her experience and how she has had considerable time around the Oval Office. To that I say “Woah nelly.” Why? Well if she was truly around the Oval Office on a consistent basis, the name “Monica Lewinsky” might still be unfamiliar to us.