Army of Darkness

Really, if either of the POTC writers or director DIDN'T watch this movie over and over in college, I'll eat my Reeboks. Undead skeleton army, indeed ...

I am one war-weary MFer

You know, I realize large-scale war and conflict will never end, despite Gene Roddenberry's fantastic writings to the contrary (then again, Gene was obviously never too sure of that - wars on Earth may have ended, but only because puny humans made it to space and found all kinds of new, exciting other species to fight!). And I know about the hypothesis that any time there are more young men than women in a society, there's more likely to be war waged. It doesn't make me understand any better, though, the sheer wastefulness of fighting a war for the sake of fighting it. I know this administration still hopes to plunder and ransack Iraqi resources like the cutthroat pirates they are, but so far, the only entities I see making a profit out of this are Halliburton, Lockheed-Martin, and other contractor Bush-Cheney-buddies. It's not like they're going to get all these barrels of oil - insurgents have been setting fire to pipelines and supplies for four years (I don't really blame them; I'd burn my new house down before I'd let some asshole illegally take it for himself, if I knew I couldn't get it back in short order).

( Wherein I may display simplistic ignorance, but by God, at least I've kept up enough to know some of it is ignorance )

If you've ever wondered

"Is there ANYTHING Veronica's happy about? Or at least content with?" You mean other than the fact "Studio 60" is back in new episodes beginning tomorrow night?

Sure, all the stuff I don't post about. If it sails smoothly and isn't being an ass-biter, I don't rock the boat by bringing it up; might jinx things. (But S60 already has plenty of critics, so I can't possibly do any worse by mentioning it here. *G*)