Quote of the Day

Found at Voenix Rising. . .

“And just in case anyone at the DNC is listening, if the national Democratic Party ever wants a minute of my time, a joule of my energy, a dime of my money or a deibold of my vote again, the request had better arrive on my doorstep pinned to Joe Lieberman’s pike-transfixed head and wrapped in an open letter from the President of these United States in which he refers to the GOP as the 'flesh eating virus of democracy,' Fox news as 'Reich-kibble for the cognitively-impaired' and the national press as 'meth-tweaked lemmings.'”

— d r i f t g l a s s

Peter Finch as Howard Beale: Mad as Hell

The enormously prophetic 1976 movie, Network, has never been more relevant. Writer Paddy Chayefsky didn't merely predict the future. If anything he undersold it. If you've never seen the movie, I want you to run to your front door, get in your car, stick your head out of your window, and as you drive to the video store, yell, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Oh, and just fast-forward through the Faye Dunaway/William Holden romantic subplot. Blecch.

The most famous clip: Mad as Hell



And the response, from Ned Beatty: Primal Forces of Nature