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Archive for August 10th, 2007

Friday, August 10th, 2007

Last Days of the Dirk Diggler Administration

I don’t know if I’ve ever written about the greatness of Boogie Nights, not just as a movie, but as a screenplay. Your typical “great screenplay” is a collection of zingers. The writer helps himself along by packing in clever, cynical people who have a way with words. BN, by contrast, is packed with people [...]

Friday, August 10th, 2007

Alleged to Have Assisted Our Nation, the Continuing Story

It’s people like the guys who packed Maher Arar off to Syria, among others, that George Bush is going to get Congress to immunize.