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You said a mouthful, Tom

Errr...errr...Judgment gets impaired by arrogance, and that’s what’s going on here. -- Sen. Tom Coburn

Kulture/Voodoo Korner

If you only see one zombie movie this month, watch Val Lewton's I Walked with a Zombie at 7:30 a.m. EST Saturday, October 3rd. If you watch two zombie movies, get up a little earlier and watch White Zombie at 6 a.m. Saturday, October 3, with Bela Lugosi. If you watch three voodoo this month, set your tivo for Black Moon with Faye Wray at 3:30 a.m. EST Friday, October 9.

But...if you only watch one movie this month -- zombies or not -- and you have 77 minutes, see William Wellman's Wild Boys of the Road at 1 a.m. EST, Friday, October 9. No Zombies, but plenty of zippy Depression-era action.

Certainty blues

Cheapening evil

For the record, this blog never equated Bush with Hitler. We may have said that when finance capital runs the government directly that is a textbook form of fascism, but we never accused him of death camps or indoctrination centers or plans for world domination.

But some Beagleterribles have become deeply uncomfortable with the way terms get thrown around. Does trying to extend coverage to 47 million uninsured equate to death camps and forced labor?

Dorm room philosophers can argue drunkly about whether Stalin was worse than Hitler or Mao was worse than both of them. But couldn't some grownup stand up and call bullschtuff to tossing names around like a hackey sack and remind people that the Nazi regime didn't start with universal health care, but it did start with misinformed, desperate vitriol spouted by radio personalities.

It's too much to hope there would be mandatory national viewing and discussion of Shoah or Night and Fog just so people would know, but -- short version -- those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.