Comments on: Projection Ain’t Just a Booth in The Movie Theater

By: J Thomas

J Thomas — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:31:05 +0000

If conversations don’t descend into anger, bitterness, and crazy theories, then you’re not doing it right.

‘Somehow that sentence calls out for an “in bed” added after “conversations”.’

I take it back. Put the “in bed” wherever it seems to fit best.

By: Helen

Helen — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:16:51 +0000

K.Lo:

Not here. Residents of Denver I’ve encountered are the happiest sort. They enjoy engaging and listening. They respect different points of view. It’s a whole new world out and up here. … There’s something healthy in the air here in real America.

Today’s newspaper:

Target Obama: An American nightmare
Ian Munro, Denver
August 27, 2008

…the random arrest of a suspected drunk driver in Colorado. Two rifles, walkie talkies, drugs and a hunting scope were found when police stopped a utility being driven erratically early Sunday morning.
A day later, it emerged that the incident had led federal officials to launch an investigation into a possible plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

…After the arrest on Sunday of Tharin Gartrell, 28, police went to the Cherry Creek Hotel, about eight kilometres from downtown Denver, to arrest an associate, Shawn Robert Adolf, 33.

Adolf broke his ankle when he jumped from a sixth-floor window to try to flee police. The hotel is being used to house delegates and journalists covering the convention. A third man, Nathan Johnson, 32, was arrested in a Denver motel.

Johnson is being held on drug charges and Adolf is a fugitive with seven arrest warrants issued for him, local media reported.

Investigators are reportedly still trying to assess the extent of the threat to Senator Obama. “Because this matter is currently under investigation, there is little we can say right now,” Colorado prosecutor Troy Eid told The Rocky Mountain News.

Yeah, definitely something in the air up there.

By: josh

josh — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:12:32 +0000

P.S. One wonders if one would find such reflections at The Corner had Giuliani become the Republican nominee.

By: josh

josh — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:01:25 +0000

So, if NYC isn’t ‘really’ part of the US, was 9/11 not ‘really’ an attack on America (ok, ok, so KLo would probably reply that the Pentagon sure is part of America.)
This does help explain why the Bush administration, in its zealous ‘war on terror’, hasn’t done more to tighten harbor security in NYC.

By: J Thomas

J Thomas — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:25:29 +0000

If conversations don’t descend into anger, bitterness, and crazy theories, then you’re not doing it right.

Somehow that sentence calls out for an “in bed” added after “conversations”.

By: herr doktor bimler

herr doktor bimler — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:31:56 +0000

If conversations don’t descend into anger, bitterness, and crazy theories, then you’re not doing it right.

By: Jon H

Jon H — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:05:57 +0000

““Conversations with random liberal strangers in New York City often descent into anger, bitterness, and crazy theories that cannot be argued with.” ”

Aha! So K. Lo is the source of half the ‘idiot tourist’ incidents depicted on OverheardInNewYork.

By: bianca steele

bianca steele — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:52:02 +0000

A taxi driver. If I used the same logic, I’d have to conclude that San Juan residents are more fluent in English than New York City residents are. Looks like Lopez needs to get out to Queens more.

By: Rick Dubin

Rick Dubin — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:14:56 +0000

Talking to a stranger in New York City and getting a response not involving an erect middle finger and the brush off would make that city quite different than it was for the twenty years I resided there….One of its greatest charms in fact…..

By: felix culpa

felix culpa — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:29:05 +0000

“learning from mistakes is a liberal habit”
Indeed; ’twas true for Erasmus. Usage has of course altered somewhat. Combative self-righteousness tends to mitigate the association, as it does with the other classical virtues, limiting an amplitude of vision as it does..

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:44:18 +0000

You also have to wonder to what the extent “learning from mistakes is a liberal habit” a not just a comforting illusion.

Statistical anomaly, I’d say.

By: Jim Harrison

Jim Harrison — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:25:20 +0000

Since I live in San Francisco, I hear more left leaning nonsense than right leaning nonsense. Accident of sampling. When I travel, the proportions are usually reversed. Are Democrats better informed than Republicans? I would like to believe so, but I just don’t know.

Democratic leaders, at least some of the time, do try to reason with people on the basis of actual information. The extent to which this approach works is perpetually in question, however. You also have to wonder to what the extent “learning from mistakes is a liberal habit” a not just a comforting illusion.

By: CJColucci

CJColucci — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:20:26 +0000

You talkin’ to ME!?

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:43:04 +0000

There’s something healthy in the air here in real America.

Apparently the cabbie took her to Greeley. So we can assume he was putting her on about that Hannity shit, too.

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:45:08 +0000

Alas, no political persuasion has a monopoly on goofy ideas.

True but but but: some of us are aware of this fact and seeking, however humbly, to improve on the situation in order to make better informed decisions based on not-quite-so-loony data. But only some of us. Most haven’t woken up to this fact yet but could any day. But a certain sliver of the population is not only OK with being “resentful, dreadfully ill informed, utterly convinced of the rightness of their opinions” but take it as an affront when they are made aware of their own shortcomings. Learning form mistakes is a liberal habit.