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[geekchick]

Based on his strong performance in last week's debate, George Bush has decided to write and direct his own campaign ads. The Poor Man has managed to obtain storyboards for the new ad.

(link snagged from gothic_peacock)


On a less humorous note, we saw "Silver City" this weekend. Dickie Pilager, a Senator's son who's about as sharp as a box of river rocks and flails horribly when he's not on script, is running for Colorado governor with the help of Karl Rove a pit bull of a campaign manager; his discovery of a corpse in a lake while shooting a campaign ad threatens to derail him if word gets out, and a private investigator is sent out by the campaign manager to have a talk with some people he thinks might just have enough of a grudge to plant something like this. His work for the campaign uncovers clues that end up leading places that Danny, also a former investigative reporter, didn't expect: undocumented migrant workers and coyotes, corporate empires (the "Bentel" corporation *ahem*), environmental regulations, high-priced lobbyists and the ties between all of them. This isn't a "happy ending" movie. Pilager is elected, the evidence of toxic waste dumping in the mines (which leaks waste into the local water supply) is covered up, witnesses disappear or are killed. A bit of a sobering reminder that reality being what it is, sometimes the good guys don't win.

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[rednikki.livejournal.com]

*eeeeeeee* Bill Bryson!

[geekchick]

I am loving this book, except that I can't listen to it at work since I tend to drop what I'm getting paid to do in order to pay attention to my audiobook. =) It's the abridged version, I think I may now have to shell out for the full book. Mmm, science.