Sunday, March 18, 2007
Saturday, March 17, 2007
"Stranger Than Fiction," often a reality...
In an effort to bring exposure to the Peasant Eye reviews, I provided a link to the latest... Click on the orange link thingy above.
Digital Penetration: Metaphysics and "functional magnetic resonance imaging"
Another study that clarifies the eternal and absurd arguement about whether Free Will or Environmental/Biological Determinism exists (only for lunatics and absolutists is it just the one or the other).
Excerpt: "To make human choice predictable, you first have to constrain it so that it's not really free."
or, "blah-blah-blah..."
Excerpt: "To make human choice predictable, you first have to constrain it so that it's not really free."
or, "blah-blah-blah..."
How Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell works for the Navy
BTW, Plame is a babe. How long before she's in Playboy like Clinton's babes?
All Is Not Well outside of Versailles
But it will only get much worse. The Vanity of Planet Pepe is kindling bonfires all through Europe and the world. And, unlike we Yankee rubes, the Old World has ever been a master of subtle and nuanced control of raging bonfires. Just ask the 20th Century
Where's Haggard in all This?
This should start an argument here on the board. I'll throw out the first shot, a utilitarian one: Hey, you want grandkids? Then you do it.
Friday, March 16, 2007
Tar baby
Of course, McCain deserves to be tarred-and-feathered for mangling this sentence: "because of someone who feels they weren't treated fairly". JJ, can you see what's wrong with that, or do you still believe 1=n, for all integers n?
Xerox Memory: New Implications...
Pepe or JJ: just remember to keep your balls off the glass when xeroxing your ass.
Unclear on the Concept #19
So the Pepe Planeteers think bringing in cute little weenie teenie puppies makes all that huffing and puffing Halal?? They think we'll see all those Good Muslims embrace the heartwarming story of the Three Little Dogs??? Of PC Cretins there is no end.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Ordem E Progresso
Kitty warns not to hit the top link if there are prudes about. Kitty herself links to an Argentine babe so we can fight over the relative merits of Brazil and Argentina.
NPR Accuses KSM of lying on resumé
So the real question is whether they are disappointed in him or if they're happy to call his interrogators liars and torturers.
I'm Confused,
This guy, in the NYT, is saying that when the BBC launches its Arabic broadcasts they will be less pro-American? Than what?
"Babel" review by mft: $34,109,548
AA has become understandably occupied with other "stuff" (that's what we'll call it now), so to contribute to the Peasant Eye Movie Review, I took the initiative. Here goes:The trailer to this movie might better read: "The American Government is wildly out of control! In the remote sands of the Moroccan desert, two Americans (played by Brad Pitt and some chick) struggling to rekindle a relationship are brought together when two young Moroccan goat-herders take pot-shots at a Yankee tour bus. Of the American couple, the wife is wounded, and her husband believes her only chance of survival is in one of the most god-awful places on earth. Their relationship on the rocks, and the delayed response from the American Embassy to airlift the wife to a Second World Hospital (French), symbolize how disillusioned Americans are these days, in addition to how the Government is slow to respond.
On the domestic front, the couple has hired a Mexican nanny who has been charged with raising their American children since birth. The nanny is put in a tight spot, when she needs to attend her son's wedding, thus forcing her to take the two American children across the border into Mexico. Upon her return, her nephew, a Mexican (obviously) is stopped and unjustly interrogated by the American Border Patrol. The nephew makes a quick get-away, and soon forces his aunt and the two American children to wander alone in the desert."
Now the viewers can think to themselves, first-hand, "AH-HA! Two American children can see what it's like to wander along that border like Mexican children do every day!" We, the Pepetian viewers, feel pretty darned good about this bit of Righteousness. The Mexican nanny/aunt, and the American children are soon discovered by Border Patrol. Predictably, the American couple has hired her illegally, and the nanny is deported, with haste, by a cold American Immigration Agent.
There is a Japanese element to the film, too: the rifle that the young goat-herders used to accidentally shoot the American was a gift a high-powered Japanese salaryman gave to Ibraham, another elder Moroccan goat-herder. The rifle is a fine extension of the evil of Capitalism, and the Japanese salaryman's young mute and deaf daughter wanders the streets of Tokyo, feeling rejected in her Capitalist culture. To remedy this, she exposes her Japanese bush to several of her countrymen, and finally to a Japanese Police Officer. Again, there's another symbolic argument in there about how Guns are Bad, Capitalism has Failed, and the American Border Patrol is Wildly Out of Control.
The movie was just a bit too moral for my Libertarian tastes, nothing like reading a Chekhov short-story, or watching Bergman's celluloid. Enough said. Back to reality. I'm just glad to have spent time with the girl, and that I had beer.
Note: It takes me a little longer to see the HOT New Hollywood Releases, the delay a result of theatre seating, and American movie theatre blue laws. Typically I wait for the film to go to DVD for several reasons. First, seating is still geared towards the size of our Greatest Generation, and even '70s Hippies. Both were short. From what I can guess, AI might have similar problems depending on the theatre. The second reason for DVDs over theatre: I don't have to worry about sneaking beers into the theatre.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Drip Drip Evil Thai Kufr Get Justice Drip Drip
On Pepe Planet there is no tolerance for that Buddhist tolerance
Architectural-Historical Trend Alert...
Some time ago JJ posted some type of Best Buildings in America survey (Link). Yes, Witold Rybczynski owes JJ a Fullers or an Arrogant Bastard. I'll send him an e-mail. Here's Rybczynski's recent slate.com piece about the new "signature" buildings that seem to be sweeping the American Metropolis.
Note: I picked up Virginia & Lee McAlester, A Field Guide to American Houses (Knopf, 1984) recently, and it's top-notch as far as finding and being able to contextualize your particular dwelling in post-Columbian American (I suppose even Canadian) history. Lots of good pics that help to identify your own abode, all without having to hassle the city, county or state historical society.
Note: I picked up Virginia & Lee McAlester, A Field Guide to American Houses (Knopf, 1984) recently, and it's top-notch as far as finding and being able to contextualize your particular dwelling in post-Columbian American (I suppose even Canadian) history. Lots of good pics that help to identify your own abode, all without having to hassle the city, county or state historical society.
Hey, Fat-Ass...
How does America deal with this? You'll notice in your post-WWII neighborhoods (anywhere in America) that the yards and driveways are bigger, a sign of the automotive culture that literaly exploded after cease-fire and surrender. About six decades later (with massive Uber-Walmart parking lots a part of the suburban landscape) it was very apparent that American asses had exploded too (not to mention articles documenting France getting fat too). Now our meals are being referred to as numbers (calories, grams of protein, etc.) rather than entrees or dishes.
...maybe time to take the whopper away from your mouth, America. Or maybe just don't think it's necessary to finish the entire thing.
...maybe time to take the whopper away from your mouth, America. Or maybe just don't think it's necessary to finish the entire thing.
Trading Guiness for Chardonnay?
O tempora, o mores! The Irish becoming French? Next thing you know, JJ will be sipping lime Perrier when at Brendan Behan.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Ban the bomb!
As the threat changes, the Left still sings the same tune:
"Our decision could well be the hinge point between real impetus toward stopping proliferation or a trigger leading to a cascade of further proliferation...," Michael Meacher, a left-wing Labour legislator
"Our decision could well be the hinge point between real impetus toward stopping proliferation or a trigger leading to a cascade of further proliferation...," Michael Meacher, a left-wing Labour legislator
Gifford Pinchot Clones Needed
Hey Pepe, Pinchot did his schooling at a Forestry School in Nancy, France. You ever been there?
But they support the troops
“I believe homosexual acts between individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts.”
Brilliant military minds at work.
Brilliant military minds at work.
Monday, March 12, 2007
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