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MY 10 FAVORITE MOVIE VILLAINS OF ALL TIME
Some questionable calls, but all in all a good list. Norman Bates and especially Freddy Krueger, I think, should be on the list. "The shark" should have been higher on the list - besides Vader and Lecter, is there a greater villain in all of movies?
Of course Vader is number one. Indeed, he has no equal. Which makes it all the more difficult when you go back and watch Star Wars, Empire and ROTJ and realize it's Hayden Christensen under the mask...
Comment Posted By Angevin13 On 24.05.2007 @ 15:39
ECO-NANNIES DECRY "LARGE" FAMILIES
This is despicable on so many levels. Even the term "environmental misdemeanor" is disturbing.
Comment Posted By Angevin13 On 7.05.2007 @ 18:56
I'm not quite sure how you can interpret the question "Do you believe George Bush had advance knowledge of 9/11?" the way "Nicolay" does. In order to do so the way he poses, you'd need to suspend common sense, substitute nonsense, and construct an entire artificial and unnatural system of logic which, coincidentally, you need to do if you believe in the liberal worldview.
Comment Posted By Angevin13 On 5.05.2007 @ 16:42
A really thought-provoking post, thanks.
I agree with a lot of what you say, particularly on the distateful role of the media in all of this ("This is America at the beginning of the 21st century. A culture coarsened by a media – concentrated in fewer and fewer hands now..." is spot on), but I disagree with your downplaying of the importance of the case. I think this is a bit more than simply "prosecutorial misconduct in a college town." Nifong not only committed massive ethics violations, but also lied to the Court, broke the law, and disregarded the Constitution. Particularly egregious was the "critically flawed lineup"--an understatement if there ever was one--which only included Duke lacrosse players. I'm not lawyer, but it seems to me that, in order to conduct a lineup in that manner, you are either grossly unaware of criminal procedure or you deliberately sought to railroad the players. Moreover, I can't in any satisfactory way reconcile why Nifong also withheld the exculpatory results of a DNA test from the defense, unless I conclude that the D.A. had it in for the players.
Does this happen all over the country? Perhaps. Does that make it any less appalling? No. Should I be less concerned because it happened to well-off families? I don't think so. If this sort of egregious legal behavior happens all the time, we should be all the more outraged.
And while, like you, I disagree with a culture that on the one hand bemoans the "fate of the accused whose lives have now been 'ruined,'" and on the other doles out six figure book and film offers, I, again, believe this shouldn't take away a) from the injustice that was done, and b) the outrage I have over it.
Thanks again.
Comment Posted By Angevin13 On 13.04.2007 @ 08:03
