A Movie Review 55 years in the making!

AMC is running a John Wayne Marathon this weekend to commemorate the 100 anniversery of his birth and I just got to catch one of my favorites from him, The Quiet Man.

JW plays an ex boxer who "retires" to his family homestead in Ireland. There he meets and marries a local girl. And hilarity ensues.

I have seen this flick maybe 20 times and never get tired of it. Some great comical scenes in it as well as showing that even with a different culture and even in a different time people really aren't that different.

Maureen O' Hara(hubba, hubba) plays his wife. You can really believe she is a small town Irish woman.

I think what I like about this movie is it isn't your typical movie from the Duke. He doesn't shoot anyone!

So if you happen to see it in the movie rental shop or that it is on tv, I recommend it.

More Idiotic Statements in the Press!

USA Today is celebrating their 25th year by having top 25 lists of things that have occured in that time. You can see the current list here.

While I disagree on a lot of this list, number 22 really got me fired up.

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Jon Stewart on The Daily Show (1998)

No program better represents the emergence of "alternative news sources" than The Daily Show under Jon Stewart. Few comics have so firmly put their stamp on the news, and few shows have more adroitly addressed a skeptical audience"

Alternative news sources? Jon Stewart? The only way Jon Stewart is an alternative to the "mainstream" liberal left media is because he is also funny. If he had no sense of humor he would fit right in on the staff of the Clinton News Network.

Reading this you may think I am some kind of right wing whack job. I would define myself politically as more of a centrist than you would think. For one thing, what some people consider "right wing" I think is quite closer to the popular opinion in this country than to the right.

I tend to have my own outlook both politically and morally. I hold views that some would consider liberal, such as being pro-choice. But I also think abortion is a horrible thing that should be only used in the direst of circumstances, not for pregnancy free sex.

It just chaps my ass when outlets such as USA Today try to hide behind being an unbiased news source, then lean as far left as they do. What ever happened to reporting the facts, and leaving the editorial to the editorial pages?

Science Reporting Gone Wild

It still amazes me that in this age of information reporters try to make science discoverys sound freakish or disasterous. I am referring to this article.

"The remnants of the explosion pose no threat to people or electronics, but it still offers hints of a future fireworks display from another, much closer star — a mere 7,500 light-years away — that has been on astronomers' death-watch list for some time."


Well, duh. The damn thing is 240 million light years away. Of course it poses no threat. But the second part leads us up to their cliffhanger for this article.

"The explosion mirrors the potential fate of Eta Carinae, a jumbo star about 7,500 light-years away that is at least 100 times heftier than our sun, Livio says. Astronomers have expected Eta Carinae to blast apart since the 1840s when eruptions of its outer surface were first spotted. But it's impossible to say whether that could happen this week or half a million years from now."


Eta Carinae, besides being one of the most unusual objects we have ever found, IS a ticking time bomb. It will go off some day. And the irony of this in relation to this story is that while SN 2006gy poses no threat, Eta Carinae to some extent does. Seventy five hundred lightyears is nothing. But the author makes it out to sound like that while SN 2006gy may have been cause for concern, Eta Carinae going supernova, will be "really cool". Which is the exact opposite.

Ok. Hi. Is this thing on?

Been reading some of my friends from WoW (World of Warcraft) blogs and thought I would give it a whirl.


I intend for this to be a place for my opinionated ass to sound off some. Some good, some bad. Music, current events, politics, stuff I find cool and stuff I think sucks. No agenda, no "theme" just rants and raves.

And the name of the blog? Well that comes from this guy.

He made a comment one night that something I did was so "Midwestern" of me. If it had came from anyone else I probably would have been offended. But I took it in stride from someone from the "left coast". So I decided that maybe people needed a report from us yokels down on the farm. Handy that we just got this here World Wide Interweb, eh? Stay tuned.