benefits of living in oakland (and america)

No, I haven't seen it yet, but I can't wait! Fahrenheit 9/11 has officially become the highest-grossing documentary of all time. Nice. Tonight, I thought I would pop over to Michael Moore's website and see what he has going on. On his front page is this picture, from Oakland's own Grand Lake Theatre. Notice their promise not to enforce the R Rating for the film. Very cool. Sometimes there are many reasons to hate Oakland, but every once in awhile, my fellow Oaklandians surprise me.

I also find it refreshing (and encouraging) that people are seeing this movie in such large numbers. I often find it difficult to wade through all the news-media bullshit and figure out just how divided we really are as a country.

Funny aside: I read stuff in the Wikipedia every day, and today I read the entry about the 2000 election results. Turns out that it really was just that close. When every single last ballot was counted (later on, by an independent research group), it was still Bush OR Gore by a few hundred votes. It really depended on how you counted them.

So . . . are we really that divided? Is it straight down the middle, even now? Is the popularity of Michael Moore's documentary really just a left-wing response to the popularity of The Passion of the Christ?

Hmmm. I guess November will bring us the only real answer.

So you know what that means? No excuse for not voting this time, folks. We all saw what happened four years ago, and I'm sure some of us (in Florida, especially) kicked ourselves for not doing it. We all learned our lesson, and we're sure to do better this time. Right? Right????

By the way, I just listened to Al Gore's entire speech at New York University. It was sponsored by MoveOn, and it was the best speech I've ever heard him give. Full of spit and vinegar. Very cool. He's not what I would call an inspired orator (like Kennedy or even Clinton) but he gave one hell of a rallying cry. Their website is offering a DVD of the speech for five bucks. Well worth it.

Ooh, that reminds me. I might meet Bill Clinton tomorrow with Corey. Not sure yet, but I might. And I might have jury duty on Wednesday.

I'm just a political machine lately, huh?

Posted: Mon - June 28, 2004 at 09:15 PM

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