The Dark Knight

The 'pash', viral marketing, and the way we live now.

Mon, 07/21/2008 - 9:17pm — cg.eye

So I saw The Dark Knight, and I liked it. I admired its seriousness among the bombast, but did not love it. I had bones to pick about its plot --

A DA is the salvation of his city?
And he uses RICO, a Federal instrument? Without Federal intervention?
And offers himself up as bait, endangering the prosecution of hundreds of criminals to catch one psycho?
And houses his star witness with the psycho in a corrupt precinct house? And orders no metal wanding of the psycho's henchmen with cellphones visibly sewn into their flesh?
Really?

Read more…

Help Corrente ...

... keep the heat on!

Subscribe to make a monthly payment and keep the hamsters who keep the mighty servers turning in kibble.

No PayPal Account required! Thank you!

Search

Today in Health Care Reform

Recent blog posts

I have been thinking about this all day
19 min 54 sec ago
i was reading her
2 hours 33 min ago
Thanks for this link
2 hours 35 min ago
my preferred targets
2 hours 39 min ago
have i got a party for you!
2 hours 44 min ago
to save roe!
2 hours 46 min ago
ouch
2 hours 52 min ago
what natasha said indeed
3 hours 1 min ago
Their business model rests on
3 hours 7 min ago
christianist crazies is so right
3 hours 17 min ago

I support Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

Per capita health care spending (2007):

United States: $7290
Switzerland: $4417
France: $3601
United Kingdom: $2992
Average of OECD developed nations: $2964
Italy: $2686
Japan: $2581

-- Bob Somerby

The text of HR676 (Medicare For All) as PDF (30 pages). The FAQ. Compare HR3200 with HR676.

Medicare for All would save $350 billion a year (study in New England Journal of Medicine).

In 2003, a young Illinois state senator named Barack Obama told an AFL-CIO meeting, "I am a proponent of a single-payer universal healthcare program*." -- Bill Moyers.

* Medicare For All.

Random Links

[Advertising]

Contact lambert_strether [dot] corrente [at] yahoo [dot] com (lambert strether) for all your pony needs. Overt and covert displays of realism ("cynicism") available at customer option.

Chat box

10:18:09 lambert Hipparchia, beowulf, please check your msgs.
23:10:28 Sarah hey, lambert -- check your pms here, please. Kthxbai
19:11:56 Valley Girl VG comment [url]
19:05:37 Valley Girl DDay implies Massa no vote is because he's in a tough district. BS. [url]
18:31:39 lambert That is the bug....
18:24:31 Aeryl :D
18:22:53 Aeryl I just kept posting, because if it's red, obviously, that mean it failed
18:18:33 lambert In a reality where lambert has to figure something out ...
17:30:17 Aeryl In what reality does a bright red box mean "successful"
17:21:33 Aeryl Done, check yours BDB
17:24:02 BDBlue Aeryl, check your messages.
17:48:09 lambert Still no word on HR676
17:31:05 Valley Girl Lambert, just read your comment [url] LOL
15:47:57 Valley Girl Do we haz irony? JR speaks [url]
15:44:24 Valley Girl Bruce- no- I was teaching, alas.
14:03:20 brucedixon VG were you at the single payer demo this morning? I couldn't make it, had a sudden problem.

Senior fellows of The Mighty Corrente Building

Leah (CA), Lambert (PA/ME), RDF (??), Sarah (TX), BDBlue (DC), Hipparchia (FL), MsExPat (NY), Vastleft (MA).

Corresponding fellows

danps.

Correspondents

Health care reform: DCBlogger.

Fellows emeritus

mjs, Riggsveda, Tresy, Tom, hekebolos, chicagodyke, shystee, and Xenophon.

Subscribe to Corrente feeds today!

Front page

leah

lambert

RDF

mjs

Sarah

Random term

Bogosity

/boh-go's*-tee/ n. 1. The degree to which something is bogus.[B]ogosity is measured with a bogometer; in a seminar, when a speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say "My bogometer just triggered". More extremely, "You just pinned my bogometer" means you just said or did something so outrageously bogus that it is off the scale, pinning the bogometer needle at the highest possible reading (one might also say "You just redlined my bogometer"). ... 2. The potential field generated by a bogon flux; see quantum bogodynamics. See also bogon flux, bogon filter, bogus.

Corrente