I watched Man of the Year this evening, good movie, I laughed, I thought it made a lot of good political and state of the country points. Had to chuckle when Jeff Goldblum found out Eleanor didn’t lose her access to the systems when she was fired and commented something like, “Wasn’t that a bad idea?”. I have to say, that is more of a real situation than many people who don’t deal with that kind of stuff would like to think it is.
I also found the fact that the company was willing to bury the problem and set Eleanor up to be the fall guy and then try to kill her to be believable. Some of the stuff I have seen in big business has leaned in that direction of badness, just not quite to that extreme but then, I have never been around the stuff that could embarrass a company out of existence. I have had more than one occurrence that occurred to me though of someone making up things about me or stuff I had done to try and get me and my judgement and character called into question. Both by big companies and small wannabe’s. Hasn’t worked in any case, its tough to bust someone and “turn them out” when they are already willing and in the process of telling the truth. If I screw up, I am one of the first to call attention to it. How can you trust me otherwise?
In general, I think Douglas Adams got it right… the President is the person who distracts you while the real people running the “universe” do so undisturbed. Certainly if Bush were truly running things, I think we would be much worse off (don’t get me wrong, I think there is a lot of screwed up stuff but it could be worse). I wouldn’t trust him to find his way from my house to my mom’s house (about 200 miles away) if he had a map and a GPS.
Lots of great one liners in the movie that will make you laugh out loud, here are just a few:
I did inhale because I thought ‘What the hell, it’s lit, it’s in my hand, I’ll inhale it.’
If you’re representing special interest groups, maybe we should be like NASCAR with the little patches on the back: ‘Enron: We take your money and run!’
I did not have sex with that woman. I wanted to…
HMOs will pay for your Viagra, but they won’t pay for your glasses. So you can have a hard-on, but you can’t see where to put it.
There was also a great bit about how in customs we interrogate 80 year old women who are citizens of the US but let entire “illegal” families fly across our border to the south with dinette sets. Basically saying it is tougher to get into the US as a legal citizen than otherwise.
Haven’t had the pleasure of watching “Man Of The Year.”
As for your not trusting Bush to find his way … yada yada, may I remind you the man is a certificated pilot who flew fighter aircraft at supersonic speeds? People like you who make needless reference to the president’s intelligence or lack of it often do it in the worst possible manner, one that shows your own lack of basic information-gathering and processing, if nothing else.
You are definitely The Man when it comes to AD, but your political philosophy–it’s more precisely termed a political ideology in your case–is deplorable, almost degenerate, like most liberal pinko-socialists.
That said, I’ll still buy you a beer. 😉
While I mabe be a liberal pink-socialist[1] but Bush is still apparently an idiot. I worked side by side with a real fighter pilot for years and believe I know a couple of other fighter pilots and I can tell you, nothing Bush has said/done would make it appear that he is even qualified to hold their helmets.
If George W.’s dad wasn’t who he is, and he grew up poor or otherwise had no one to pull strings for him, what he “accomplished” would have more value to me.
Always good to hear from you though Fred. Your posts are always a good break from coding. 🙂
joe
[1] Not sure, haven’t researched it but Brett maintains that I am a socialist because I bought him a burger once.