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April 27, 2005

ITA Daily Web Digest

ITA's writers point out the articles they've found most interesting today.

"Life After Darth" [Wired]: A biographical sketch of George Lucas presenting a revisionist view of the "high concept" director's career. Who knew that Darth Lucas really wanted to make bad art films? (Selected by Paul Musgrave.)
"All God's Children Got Values" [Dissent]: Philosopher Michael Walzer argues that it's the Left, not the "values Right," that's been reduced to morals posturing. But Walzer, writing in one of the Left's premiere journals, takes the Bush administration and specifically neocons to task as well. (Selected by Paul Musgrave.)
"Weapons Inspector Ends WMD Search in Iraq" [Associated Press]: Following on the heels of Charles Duelfer's report concluding the same, the CIA's top weapons hunter in Iraq said his search for weapons of mass destruction "has been exhausted" without finding any. (Selected by Joshua Claybourn.)
"Nuke the Filibuster" [LA Times]: While Republicans and Democrats seemingly flip flop on filibuster positions to suit their interests, the LA Times retains their intellectual honesty and continues their support of ending the filibuster. Interestingly, the Times supports a universal repeal: "But the Senate shouldn't stop with filibusters over judges. It should strive to nuke the filibuster for all legislative purposes." (Selected by Joshua Claybourn.)
"Bush: Build Oil Refineries at Ex-Military Bases" [Reuters]: After failing to solve the problem overnight by pleading with the House of Fraud, Bush announces that high gas prices are "not going to be fixed overnight." But apparently letting oil companies bypass pesky regulations and build on old military bases will help. Of course, this must be at the behest of Big Oil, who control the WH these days, right? "A top independent oil refiner, Valero Energy Corp. said expanding its current fleet of refineries makes better economic sense than building new refineries at closed military bases." (Selected by Zach Wendling)
"Brosnan 'will stay on as 007'" [The Mirror]: Dame Dench spills the beans. Brosnan will continue to help EON run the franchise into the ground with the next installment: Casino Royale. This after years of rumours of who would replace him, some of them inexplicably bizarre: Orlando Bloom? Cuba Gooding, Jr.? I'm still hoping for Lazenby look-alike Clive Owens. (Selected by Zach Wendling)

Posted by ITA Staff at April 27, 2005 06:52 AM

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I'm still hoping for Lazenby look-alike Clive Owens.

What about Jude Law? He's stylish and suave enough, and since Bond was never supposed to be a Willis/Stallone/Ahnold-style action hero*, he'd be excellent.

*Of course, Brosnan turned Bond into an uber-action hero with every movie after Goldeneye, using big guns and big explosions and cussing and nudity to accomplish what Connery (or even Dalton, for chrissakes) could have accomplished with a wink, a smile, and a PP7.

Posted by: Nick Blesch at April 27, 2005 07:36 PM | permalink

What about Jude Law?

Because I'd still like for Bond to at least look masculine.

Posted by: Zach Wendling at April 27, 2005 08:31 PM | permalink

A summary post like this is a good idea.
I come across so much stuff that I want to keep, but it's not enough to take the time and trouble to merit a separate post. I've been thinking of doing something like this myself. Only problem is, I don't know how I would ever find anything again. A daisy chain of blog posts is disorderly enough.
I, for one, like scanning other people's notes. Each of us is a kind of "filter" of information for everyone else with whom we share. Part of the reason we are linked from among all the tens of millions of possibilities is that at some moment in the past a bond was made.

Posted by: John Ballard at April 27, 2005 08:38 PM | permalink

Maybe in about 25 years it'll be Daniel Radcliffe.

Posted by: Alan K. Henderson at April 28, 2005 12:31 AM | permalink

April 27, 2005

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