The American Spectator

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7.16.08 @ 12:01AM

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The truth about Barry is his spectacular dancing ability: A complex footwork incorporating Tap, the Hustle, the Cakewalk and Whirling Dervish, in an attempt to out spin the lies -- all accompanied by the media's version of a Dance of the Seven Veils.

Poor McCain: all he can manage is the Shuffle!
-- Wolf Terner
Fair Lawn, New Jersey

A MAMET EFFORT
Re: Shawn Macomber's Mametfest Destiny:

It was delightful reading Shawn Macomber's piece on the transformation of David Mamet's thinking from arch liberal to the more traditional conservative. To think that one can simply live their way to such enlightenment requires no stretch of the imagination at all. That any liberal over the age of 40 and certainly by age 60 has not had this same transforming experience is the true anomaly.

I mean, why would anyone floating in the middle of an ocean persistently work at destroying the very life preserver that sustains them simply because it has a few flaws. Of course liberals would argue that that is not what they are doing. They're just trying to FIXIT!
-- Jim Jackson

COMPARE WITH CAPTAIN PLANET
Re: James Bowman's "Wall-E":

I ride the subway to work every morning, and judging by the number of Wireheads who scatter their drink cups, half-chewed breakfast bits, banana peels, newspapers, candy wrappers and other garbage broadcast behind them (I even saw one wire head girl toss her garbage onto a seat directly under a poster begging people to stop inundating the trains with garbage), I would say that megalomaniacal wirehead nerds are 90% of the problem, and no part of the solution.

And the Axiom is just a luxury version of Mama's basement, where life is provided for them on a snack tray and somebody else (Wall E as Mama) picks up the trash.
-- Kate Shaw
Toronto, Canada

Dear Professor Bowman,

No, tell us really. How did you like the movie? From your disapproving recreation of its chronology to your analysis of the degradation of butane lighter fuel to your denigration of the movie's heroes (especially the chubby captain who helps save the day), it seems that you are taking this thing far too seriously. It's just a cartoon! Everything in it is exaggerated -- that's how cartoons work. It is not some rabid environmentalist screed against drilling in ANWR.

Perhaps the trouble is, you're taking it too personally. Your repeated references to 2001: A Space Odyssey betray your hidden agenda. You haven't forgiven HAL-3000 for what it tried to do to your Uncle Dave, have you, Professor Bowman? We can therefore forgive your antipathy towards the megalomaniacal navigation system on the Axiom. But Wall-E was a nice little computer. Couldn't you find a soft place in your heart for him?

I'm not asking anything for the cockroach, of course.
-- J.L. Schallert
Cambridge, Wisconsin

I pity James Bowman. To be a movie critic and have to endure something he obviously hates. I think you should take him off the hook and find a critic that actually likes movies.
-- Craig Marshall

FEEL THE CHILL
Re: Garry Greenwood's letter (under "Cold Frost") in Reader Mail's Fun in the Sun:

In answer to Mr. Greenwood's question, as a Libertarian-leaning Independent, no (a resounding NO, in fact!), I do not support the government funding of abortions (nor the government funding of too many other things as well).

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