Dirk | Human Rights Activist, Political Junkie
“Someone pointed me to Charlie Wilson’s War the other day. My response was that it was Charlie Wilson’s war that gave birth to the Taliban we know as an enemy today. It was Charlie Wilson’s War that justified building up and training young men to fight the Soviets without any thought or regard to what
28 Jul 2010 | Tags:
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Dirk | Human Rights Activist, Policy Wonk
READ PT ONE: TREASON “It’s like a great darkness falling; it’s the beginning of forgetting.” – Marguerite Duras PART TWO: CASUALTIES For just about as long as we’ve been at war there the recent and distant history of Afghanistan has been wrapped in a cloud of myth that’s worked hard to obscure the context of
27 Jul 2010 | Tags:
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Dirk | Human Rights Activist, Policy Wonk
“The poison that is war does not free us from the ethics of responsibility.” – Chris Hedges PART ONE: TREASON There are one or two things ahead that your friend and humble narrator here simply avoids having to discuss, that are deflected plus joked about rather than detailed whenever they come up—but that nevertheless form
26 Jul 2010 | Tags:
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Dirk | Comic Book Geek, Film Fanatic
So tonight’s post on 2112 was going to be all about how much I often want to junk-punch guys like Tavis Smiley, Roland Martin and Michael Eric Dyson with a brick and how and why I think I outta be allowed to for the sake of Christmas and puppies and also to promote general cultural
24 Jul 2010 | Tags:
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Jessica Biel,
Katherine Bigelow,
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Steve Trevor,
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Dirk | Policy Wonk, Political Junkie
The other day I got into a conversation with a co-worker concerning how the right-wing’s off stated desire to partition the country would be just fine with both of us [just as long some manner of land swap could be arranged for Austin]. Now usually that kind of separatist talk amongst self identified progressives would
22 Jul 2010 | Tags:
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ana marie cox,
angelina jolie,
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cleopatra,
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john king,
michael steele,
mr potato head,
race and cable news,
rachel sklar,
roland martin,
ron christie,
shelby steele,
tea party
Dirk | Policy Wonk, Political Junkie
So at this point it would be somewhere beyond pointless to recount the details of the Shirley Sherrod story, everyone already knows them and I don’t really want to get into it anyway. I want to have my say and ask a fairly simple question about something else – something related and crucial to –
21 Jul 2010 | Tags:
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Dirk | Comic Book Geek, Film Fanatic
“Loeb told CBR News, adding that after catching the first flight from Los Angeles to New York Monday morning to meet with Marvel Publisher Dan Buckley, the job has so far involved finding a way to make Marvel’s independent publishing identity work with Disney’s broader broadcast division. “We (Marvel and Disney) all want the same
8 Jul 2010 | Tags:
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Summer Glau
Dirk | Human Rights Activist, Policy Wonk
Ok so for about the last day and half I’ve been trying to think of a name. We [meaning the United States] desperately need someone to replace the decidedly disappointing Karl Eikenberry as U.S. Ambassador in Kabul … The thing is that name would need to belong to a person who was a couple a
24 Jun 2010 | Tags:
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Dirk | Policy Wonk, Political Junkie
Ok so it’s pretty obvious that Evan Bayh is “retiring” because he’s an angry … angry … angry little girl-man forever stuck at the brink of womanhood. He’s angry at us liberal activists primary voter types for having ignored him, he’s angry at lefty bloggers for criticizing whenever he acts like he’s Evan Bayh, angry
Dirk | Film Fanatic
Ok so according to Summit Entertainment – the same wonderful people who’ve given us the lamentable Twilight and its lamentable sequel – there’s a “re-imagined” version of Highlander the original Highlander in the offing. But back in 1986 Frenchman Christopher Lambert, a played Scot Conner MacLeod … Scot Sean Connery played well Sean Connery aka
15 Feb 2010 | Tags:
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Gerard Butler,
Golshifteh Farahani,
Gregory Widen,
Heather MacLeod,
Highlander,
Iman Fasil,
Jane Seymour,
January Jones,
Jean-Claude Van Damme,
Jeffrey Wright,
Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez,
Kevin McKidd,
Michelle Yeoh,
Rachel Ellenstein,
remake,
Robert Carlyle,
Roxanne Hart,
Russell Mulcahy,
Russell Nash,
Sean Connery,
Sunda Kastagir,
Tak-Ne,
The Kurgan,
Victor Kruger,
Vin Diesel,
Vincent Cassel