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Roads to hell, good intentions, blah, blah, blah… I started this post two weeks ago, thinking I'd do one every week. I see a lot of movies and it seemed to make sense. Funny how life gets in the way of our intentions. Not that that's going to stop me from (finally) posting this, of course. Boogie Woogie I sometimes suffer from the conviction that I have art-house sensibilities. Movies like Boogie Woogie, I've decided, exist to dissuade me of those art-house pretensions. I'll blame Netflix for this one (indirectly, of course), since I saw the trailer for this movie in front of something else I'd rented from them, thought it looked fun and immediately dropped it in my queue. None of this is meant to say that this is neccesarily a BAD film... god knows I've seen worse. There are several very good performances and one or two interesting characters. But none of this adds up to a compelling whole for me, and I found myself counting the minutes till it was over. Lon

I debated a lot of different titles for this post before settling on the one that most succinctly summed up my reaction to today's reading of "the Constitution" by House Republicans. (Read the Slate article below to understand my quote marks.) What House Republicans left out when they read (parts of) America's founding document. - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine Aside from their selective sampling of the Constitution, I'm sincerely impressed by the shear arrogance on display here. After kowtowing to G.W. Bush's abuse of the Constitution (oft-defended by the glib remark "the Constitution is not a suicide pact") it strikes me as more than a little disingenuous to have these bastards trot out a bowdlerized version of the document to put the world on notice that they, apparently, are the keepers of all that is "good" and "decent" in this country. (And I've got to note that it's taken less than 5 days of these bastard