September 30th, 2004
There are a number of interesting, political indie movies floating around, and one of the ones I keep hearing buzz about is September Tapes. Has anyone out there seen it yet?
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Reading Anthony Lane’s fairly rapturous review of The Motorcycle Diaries in the New Yorker last week, I was struck by how completely he sidestepped the central issue: The moral worth of Che Guevara.
Reader E.F. sends along this link to Paul Berman’s excellent dissection of Che and The Motorcycle Diaries, which takes a serious look at what Lane declined to explore.
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Look! it’s like Cold Mountain, but French.
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Great Bill Lyon column on Bonds and Ichiro.
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Soxblog makes the interesting point that the team of Kerry surrogates isn’t exactly a who’s who of Democratic stars. Why might that be? I can think of two reasons: (1) Kerry doesn’t want bigger stars around him; or (2) The big names don’t want to get near Kerry.
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September 29th, 2004
I’m excited by the news that D.C. is getting a baseball team again–about time. I had assumed that the right name for the team was the Senators, but reader B.W. points me to Remember the Grays, which makes the case that Major League Baseball should honor Washington’s old Negro League team by renaming the Expos the Grays.
Sounds like a fine and fitting idea. Pass it on.
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Christopher Caldwell’s Islamic Europe? is of a piece with yesterday’s news about high-minded European worries.
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Out in Oakland police have stopped DUI checkpoints because they were ensnaring too many illegal immigrants. Think about it: A police tactic designed to ensnare one type of law-breaker is abandoned because it’s catching too many other types of law-breakers. Only in America.
Now, if only some Latino group could prove that illegal aliens were also being discriminated against by red-light cameras . . .
Update 12:26 p.m.: Alert reader S.D. notes that yesterday Oakland mayor Jerry Brown overturned the ban. Good for him.
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