Let me start you off with a quote.”The most effectual engines for [pacifying a nation] are the public papers… [A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers….
Day: June 6, 2007
Mom Has A Need….For Speed
The phone rings. I pick it up. The person on the other end states, without preamble:”I don’t like the donut.””Hi, Mom…what’s up?”As usual, I was stumped. Mom speaks with the assumption that everyone knows what she’s thinking and is able to follow her down the rabbit hole with occasional side trips through a wormhole.Destination…unknown.”Donut?””Yeah. You…
1408 – a new movie from Stephen King
There is a new movie coming out based on a Stephen King Book and it is the 1408 Movie.Starring two of my favorite actors; John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson, this movie takes place in a haunted hotel run by Samuel L. Jackson’s character. The synopsis of the story is simple. John Cusack’s character is…