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Date: 2004-07-13 23:00:37

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I can't change my login email because I'm an admin.  Oh well, a few viagra ads never hurt anyone.

What I meant about "voting for the party" is that democrats, republicans, libertarians, socialists, et al. vote for "their guy" based mostly on what the generic representation of what the party's issues are.  So, for example, this November a bunch of democrats will vote for Kerry even though his politics are not exactly what they're looking for.  It's the better of two evils.  Granted, I am guilty of the same thing because there is no elected official that will satisfy everyone to 100%, but it would be nice if Kerry at least had a few of the things that I am looking for.  It's the problem of living in a Republic, I suppose.

But, like Moore says (one of the few things I agree with him about [and to tie this conversation back to topic]) I would rather have a president in the office telling me he is going to fuck me over, rather than one who is in the office giving me the thumbs up with one hand while the other hand is feeling up my girlfriend.  Hypothetically speaking.  So voting is tough for me because there is no really good choice.  No plausible one, at least.  I think that is many people's problem.

My bone with Michael Wilson is that he is not doing something that I see to be entertaining.  While I don't agree with his politics, I am also a writer and a movie fan who wants to watch interesting things.  Moore is seriously misguided, but at least he is somewhat interesting.

I have given Wilson the chance to prove my intial asessment wrong and there's a 50/50 chance that he will be sending me an advanced copy of the movie for a review.  I promised him an unbiased viewing, something I intend to follow through with considering some of the things I wrote about him and how well he took it.  (He was a very nice guy in our brief correspondance.  I can't imagine Moore being so friendly to a journalist who just compared him to a Backstreet Boy, or Meatloaf, or whatever the analogy would be.)

And you're absolutely right:  beside flawed testing, the most glaring problem with "no child left behind" is the funding based on testing.  That was what I was alluding to in the last post, although sometimes I come across as incomprehensible.  That's why I have an editor.  That and to add curse words to my article if I've forgotten to.  You have to love dTheatre.  The ad I responded to for the job said "Swearing is encouraged."  When I offer clips from the site to other venues, I have to be careful what I select.

Boy I'm rambling.  Thanks everyone for your interest in this article and your lively debates here at dTheatre.  If you have any questions or comments, feel free to send me an email.  I try to respond to every single one.

charley