I saw George Clooney's new film Good Night, and Good Luck today. Fantastic film. It's a wonderful retelling of Edward R. Murrow's showdown with Senator McCarthy in the 50's. The parallels to our present political/media situation are timely, but more significantly, the film showcases some of Murrow's prescience regarding the variously banal uses of televised media. It's like a combination of "All The President's Men" crossed with "The Insider". . . .and perhaps a little "Amusing Ourselves To Death" thrown in for good measure. Get off your computer and go see it!

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."

-----Albert Einstein

"It is during such trough periods, much more than during the peak periods, that it is growing into the creature He (God) wants it to be. Hence the prayers offered in the state of dryness are those that please Him best....He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles. Do not be decieved, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks around a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and ask why he has been forsaken, and still obeys."

-----C.S. Lewis, from "The Screwtape Letters", lifted heavily from George MacDonald's "Unspoken Sermons".

"A woman needs a man, like a fish needs a bicycle."

-----U2, "Trying to Throw Your Arms Around the World"