pullitzer prize winner julia keller in the trib:

"Baseball is played in the summer but ends in the autumn, when the light starts to fail and kids are called inside early, taken reluctantly from their games in vacant lots and dead-end streets. The moments are precious because they perish. The joy is special because it's temporary. 'Death is the mother of beauty,' wrote Wallace Stevens. What makes today so amazing--the first full day after the Sox victory--is that it is unique in the history of the world. And will remain so. Cherish it, because it is moving steadily out of your reach."

amen.

from christiananswers.com's movie reviews, we get this user review of tim burton's "corpse bride," a stop motion animated childrens film:

Negative - This movie is an abomination. Don’t be fooled. It is not a good scare for any misguided Christian parent who still lets their children celebrate Halloween. I only stayed to watch the entire film so I could honestly warn others about its disturbing content. It is sickening, morose and dangerous for children or adults. As a Christian parent, hopefully your first instincts would be that this is necromancy and absolutely contrary to God’s word.

This twisted and dark view from Tim Burton’s heavily demonic influenced imagination goes way beyond just mixing the overt sexuality of voluptuous women with rotting bluish flesh that falls down around their ankles like a loose sock. It goes on to make a joke out of a Jiminy Cricket-like maggot worm that lives inside the Corpse Bride’s head, who passes out nuggets of ghoulish advice, like a conscience, while simultaneously eating on the brides decaying brain. (I am not making any of this up.) This movie glorifies death and the underworld as a great place to go. Huge drunken parties are thrown for all new arrivals, complete with live bands, disembodied heads that are carried around on the backs of cockroaches, and dangling esophaguses that spill the liquor into non-existent stomachs.

The movies hero promises to bring the story to a climax with his own suicide in front of all his friends and family, both living and dead, so he can then properly marry the dead bride. The live humans are all grotesque and evil and being dead (even by suicide) is glamorized as being more desirable because then you are among the fun-loving people. I have only touched the surface of the horrendousness of this piece of trash. Please don’t see for yourself if I am right.
My Ratings: Extremely Offensive / 4
—Jonah, age 41

thank you, jonah, for pointing out that this film depicts LIVE BANDS! also, COCKROACHES! if it were up to me, my children would never have to know that cockroaches exist, or that bands play live music. jonah, you're a hero. hell yeah.

REVIEW
christiananswers.com
4 Stars (out of 5)

hilarious and horrifying, like a nightmare on elmstreet movie.

the white sox are in the world series.

q. what else do i care about?

a. nothing.

sports are like politics, people are willing to do anything to believe what they want to believe, including ignoring facts and evidence. and thats why some people will never believe in the white sox. but now that theyve gotten this far and earned a birth in the world series, im willing to say it: i believe the white sox can go to the world series. im just not holding my breath.

REVIEW
law and order
5 Stars (Out of 5)

its on all the time, so i can get my fix virtually 24 hours a day. plus, all of its incarnations are good, and det. stabler (chris meloni) is the most bad ass man to ever exist. and he hates pedophiles. so hey, pedophiles: look out. a fictional character is gonna beat yo azz.

It forces us again to give Miers the benefit of the doubt, when the matter at hand is of ultimate importance.

what is stanley kurtz referring to when he says this?

why, the problem with harriet miers, president bush's second nomination for the supreme court! and what is that problem? that she FOUNDED A WOMEN'S STUDIES DEPARTMENT LECTURE SERIES AT A UNIVERSITY! AND SHE LET LIBERALS SPEAK THERE!

kurtz eventually sort-of calms down as he decides that surely some university liberals tricked miers and went behind her back to allow the liberals to speak. overall though, he concludes that this casts serious doubt into miers conservative credentials and whether or not she can ably perform her duties as a supreme court justice.

what the hell? there are reasons why miers shouldn't have been nominated (like how she's not once in her life been a judge in any capacity. or like how the administration has yet to provide an example of her arguing constitutional law), but how fuckin off the wall do you have to be to hold her women's studies department against her? whether you think those bastard liberals commandeered her lecture series or not, it shouldn't matter. this is absolute trivia. and at worst, what? she's a moderate? who cares? get your head out from under the tinfoil, stanley kurtz. you're itallian game show crazy.

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the national review
2 Stars (Out of 5)

its reputable and respected, especially as far as right wing craziness sites go. and yet still, some of them (kurtz) are off the wall nuts.

This is a real essay turned in to my professor last year. it received an A.

an excerpt from the essay

JAWS DOESN'T LIKE PEOPLE

by Ray Watkins.

Quint says Jaws* is either "very smart, or very dumb." The answer is "very smart," Quint. But not just animal smart thought. Jaws is human smart. Jaws knows exactly where the boat is vulnerable to attack (the back) Jaws knows Brody is hiding in the cabin. Jaws is no regular animal. Jaws is the anomalous.
Jaws is not the typical anomalous. Jaws transcends the animal world through his antrhopomorphic qualities. Jaws can think like a human. Jaws is aware of human morals. Jaws is aware of human traditions. Jaws is aware of humans. But Jaws doesn't care. Jaws hates all of them... and Jaws wants to eat YOU.
Jaws fights dirty. When Hooper goes into the water jaws comes from the front and then disappears, but watch out, Richard Dreyfus, Jaws doesn't want a high noon showdown, no sir. NO! Jaws attacks from behind.
Jaws thinks dirty. "Jaws, what are you doing swimming under naked girls?" Oh, that dirty Jaws, with that up skirt shot, minus the skirt.
Jaws kills the innocent. Jaws kills a beautiful, naked, naked girl. Jaws kills man's best friend, and a cute little boy. Jaws kills everyone's favorite fishing buddy, Ben Gardner. The only slightly bad person Jaws kills is Quint, and this is only because Jaws wants to kill Brody, the American hero. But why does Jaws want to kill the American hero?
Because Jaws hates America.
What day does Jaws choose to center his attacks around? the Fourth of July, Independence day. Why? Because Jaws wants America to fall. Jaws' ancestors tried to make the message clear. They ate almost the whole crew of the ship that delivered the bomb. But YOU didn't get the message, so now Jaws is making it clear.
"This wasn't a boat propeller or a coral reef...or Jack the Ripper." No, Hooper, you fool, it wasn't. It wasn't machine or animal or man. It was jaws, the super-animal. Jaws is the anomalous. The dirty, mean, immoral, un-American bastard shark...that wants to eat YOU.

* I call the shark Jaws. Whenever i say Jaws, i mean the shark in the movie Jaws.

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Keys
2 Stars (Out of 5)

they smell all metally. they small all key-y. they smell.