Steve's Movie Reviews: Batman Begins

I enjoyed this movie. I think that it may be the best of the five Batman movies. The beginning bounces around a little to show flashbacks and flashbacks from within flashbacks but once Bruce is back in Gotham, it hits on all cylinders.

Spoilers follow: (Hightlight the black box to read them) I was surprised that Rachel (Katie Holmes' character) found out who Bruce was and decided to wait for Gotham to not need the Batman before they could be together. I did love how they answered the question of "where does he get those wonderful toys". Morgan Freeman's Fox was an inventor at Wayne Enterprises and Bruce places him in charge of the company. Nice way for us to know how Batman continued getting better tools and cars. I liked the actor playing the Scarecrow although I thought the Scarecrow character wasn't that great. I liked him better as Dr. Crane. He seemed scarier. Plus: "I'm Batman!" and the hint at the end of who will be the villian of the next movie.

Steve's Outrage of the Day: Texas Style

This Pandagon article is scary as hell. In Texas, a student (about 14 years old) brags that he got another student pregnant. So the school forces the girl to take a pregnacy test to find out. (Not that it matters, but she wasn't pregnant.)

I believe the words "What the fuck?" do not cover how dumb this is. I hope the student and her lawyer win a ton of money from the school.

Steve's Outrage of the Day: Wal-mart completely sucks

The post on DailyKos links to another article describing a change to Wal-Mart's employee policy. Wal-Mart is requiring an employee to be available "from 7-11 for any shift, no matter what, or be fired."

If they cannot be available or find a babysitter, they will be fired! Fired! And Dad wonders why I don't shop at Wal-Mart if I can help it.

Grant Robinson : Guess-the-google launcher

Guess-the-google is a fun game where you are shown 20 pictures and you have to guess the google search word used to find those pictures. I've tried it a few times and I can't get a higher score than 170 which is not that great. Can anyone beat it?

This is why I really dislike the bums in the White House

From AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth.

Indeed. (Blog in-joke guys.)

This is creepy...

So I'm just blog-surfing and I find this essay called ‘Baghdad Bob’ Was Not Wide of the Mark, Was He? While I'm convinced it is 100% right, it does have some interesting points. Here's part of it:

In the heady days of the Second Iraq War, when the West seemed to be winning Bush’s “war on terror,” Westerners laughed at Baghdad Bob, more formally known as Mohammed “no tanks” Saeed Al-Sahhaf, Saddam’s minister of information. Al-Sahhaf’s cocksure pronouncements of Iraqi military victory against US “coalition” forces — always made with an air of studied casualness — had then a hilarity about them that spawned endless jokes.

But that was then. This is now.

Steve's Outrage of the Day (Newsweek was right)

Well, they weren't exactly right but more than close enough. It turns out that in news released at 7pm on a Friday night that we didn't flush a Koran done the toliet. We just used one as a toilet. Well, that's so much better.

... Editted link to be correct.