Prolonged exposure to broadcast trash has turned him evil, but instead of running amok with a blunt instrument, as I frequently want to, he's found a socially acceptable outlet, a nifty clip-and-comment format that never plunged into empty snickering.
Rudy Giuliani's fake numbers on prostate cancer — which, by the way, he still refuses to admit were wrong — were the latest entry in a long, dishonorable tradition of peddling scare stories about the evils of "government run" health care.
It has been a rude shock to see so many economists with good reputations recycling old fallacies — like the claim that any rise in government spending automatically displaces an equal amount of private spending, even when there is mass unemployment — and lending their names to grossly exaggerated claims about the evils of short-run budget deficits.
"You lie to America about the evils of government-run health care because you people, not one of you liars about government health care is willing to repeal Medicare, to stand up and be consistent... 'I hate government health care so I want to repeal Medicare'..
(Just look at this video of Resident Evil 4 running on the iPhone and tell me that doesn't look playable, if not great).
George Bernard Shaw reimagined the "Ring" as class struggle, and the evils of capitalism have run amok through "Ring" productions ever since.
There's also the primal horror of being chased in an unprotected zone by a swarm of big mean kids with an attitude and a grudge, and the fundamentally liberating idea of escaping to the big bad city with, of course, an evil genius running the whole show.
There's also the primal horror of being chased in an unprotected zone by a swarm of big mean kids with an attitude and a grudge, and the fundamentally liberating idea of escaping to the big bad city — with, of course, an evil genius running the whole show.
Gibney (Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, Taxi to the Dark Side) has an uncanny ability to show us something that looks fairly wholesome and ordinary like a ballgame, and then, like Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," show us the dark undercurrent of societal evils that run beneath it.
Cooper is the perfect person to investigate Palmer's death because he is sensitive to the wavelets of evil that run across our collective unconscious.
