Okay, this one's a real post. Didn't like the last one? Just bear with me for a moment; I'll take it down eventually. Anyway, just needed to vent, and I'm getting real sick of being known as a really nice guy. (Here's a hint: nice guys don't get laid.) Anywho, here's a couple more quotes from what is rapidly becoming my (non-existent) Facebook profile:
"Willpower and dedication are good words," Roland remarked. "There's a bad one, though, that means the same thing. That one is obsession." --Stephen King, The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass.
Gotta love Stephen King. You know, he's another one of those dudes who is much more than what he seems like on the surface. Yeah, he's a horror writer, true dat, and he writes pretty true to form most of the time (read Cell and Duma Key, as his most recent examples). However, how many of you out there knew that Stand By Me (The Body), The Shawshank Redemption, Dolores Claiborne, and The Green Mile are all by Stephen King? Oh, and have you read Lisey's Story yet? If you haven't, now's the time; it's almost Valentine's Day, after all.
Okay, one more:
"If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help them." Tony Benn, former member of the British Parliament, in an interview with Michael Moore in Sicko.
If you haven't seen SiCKO yet, what are you waiting for? Granted, if you are a health-care policy wonk, or just hardcore into health-care policy (wait, that's the same thing), you might find the movie to be a naive, overly simplistic polemic that ultimately won't advance the conversation about health-care reform (just playing Devil's advocate here). For everyone else, you've got to start somewhere, and SiCKO is a pretty good primer for explaining what's wrong with our health-care "system" (for starters, the reason why I have to use quotes is because the "system" is so fragmented that it is practically non-existent). Buy a copy or rent now.
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