A liberal knows exactly what’s right for you and is eager to conduct a grand social experiment to prove themselves wrong.
People: Conservatives
A conservative is a person who optimistically believes “it’s always been done this way” because someone in the past hit upon the best possible solution. (Of course, that person must have been a liberal.)
Movie: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The visual effects don’t hold up, but it doesn’t matter because it’s a musical and Gene Wilder became Willy Wonka.
Book: Unbroken
This is one of those “truth is stranger than fiction” books. It is, thankfully, carefully supported with endnotes and, more important, exceptionally well written and engrossing. Please find a copy and read!
Movie: “The Five-Year Engagement”
Would someone please tell Jason Segel that his rear end isn’t really all that funny?
The Movie: “Clue”
Proof positive that a quality film can be built around a board game theme. The actual game would be greatly improved with the addition of Tim Curry whisking the players from one room to another in the final act.
People: Canadians
Does everyone already know that Canadians apologize for being Canadian? Oh. I’m sorry for wasting your time.
The Movie: The Lorax
There are many challenges to filming a 45 page picture book, but why didn’t the press report on the devastation outside of town or the corruption of the (new) villain? Dr. Seuss might have been writing about current social issues, but he set his stories well outside of any specific place or time.
Service: Charter TV
So the DVR is junk and cable TV is expensive, but we wanted to watch the Olympics and that’s about it. Considering that establishing and cancelling was free and smooth, Charter did what we needed.
Book: “The Cost of Discipleship”
Jesus proposed a beautifully simple way to make the world a better place: put the needs of others above your own. Bonhoeffer, writing in the early years of Hitler’s Germany, showed us how apply that idea.
