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totalvirility, universaldonor and myself for a Farenheit 9/11 screening tomorrow evening. I was prepared to go at 12.15 AM tonight (the midnight show was sold out) but "some people have to work in the morning" and since the film technically opens on Wednesday, I suppose we are still sticking to our original plan of going on the opening night.
In the meantime, here is the latest op-ed by Paul Krugman, to use the Russian expression na zlobu dnya, which literally translates "on the evil of the day" and means that it's uncannily timely.
Noonday in the Shade
By PAUL KRUGMAN
In April 2003, John Ashcroft's Justice Department disrupted what appears to have been a horrifying terrorist plot. In the small town of Noonday, Tex., F.B.I. agents discovered a weapons cache containing fully automatic machine guns, remote-controlled explosive devices disguised as briefcases, 60 pipe bombs and a chemical weapon — a cyanide bomb — big enough to kill everyone in a 30,000-square-foot building.
Strangely, though, the attorney general didn't call a press conference to announce the discovery of the weapons cache, or the arrest of William Krar, its owner. He didn't even issue a press release. This was, to say the least, out of character. Jose Padilla, the accused "dirty bomber," didn't have any bomb-making material or even a plausible way to acquire such material, yet Mr. Ashcroft put him on front pages around the world. Mr. Krar was caught with an actual chemical bomb, yet Mr. Ashcroft acted as if nothing had happened.
( Mr. Krar, you see, wasn't from Arabistan. He wasn't even brown. )
totalvirility, universaldonor and myself for a Farenheit 9/11 screening tomorrow evening. I was prepared to go at 12.15 AM tonight (the midnight show was sold out) but "some people have to work in the morning" and since the film technically opens on Wednesday, I suppose we are still sticking to our original plan of going on the opening night.In the meantime, here is the latest op-ed by Paul Krugman, to use the Russian expression na zlobu dnya, which literally translates "on the evil of the day" and means that it's uncannily timely.
Noonday in the Shade
By PAUL KRUGMAN
In April 2003, John Ashcroft's Justice Department disrupted what appears to have been a horrifying terrorist plot. In the small town of Noonday, Tex., F.B.I. agents discovered a weapons cache containing fully automatic machine guns, remote-controlled explosive devices disguised as briefcases, 60 pipe bombs and a chemical weapon — a cyanide bomb — big enough to kill everyone in a 30,000-square-foot building.
Strangely, though, the attorney general didn't call a press conference to announce the discovery of the weapons cache, or the arrest of William Krar, its owner. He didn't even issue a press release. This was, to say the least, out of character. Jose Padilla, the accused "dirty bomber," didn't have any bomb-making material or even a plausible way to acquire such material, yet Mr. Ashcroft put him on front pages around the world. Mr. Krar was caught with an actual chemical bomb, yet Mr. Ashcroft acted as if nothing had happened.
( Mr. Krar, you see, wasn't from Arabistan. He wasn't even brown. )
