Roger Ebert on BP and how our values have changed
Roger Ebert on BP and how our values have changed
Borstalboy
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#1Roger Ebert on BP and how our values have changed
Posted: 7/26/10 at 10:11pm
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#2Roger Ebert on BP and how our values have changed
Posted: 7/26/10 at 11:00pmRoger Ebert for President!
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
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#2Roger Ebert on BP and how our values have changed
Posted: 7/26/10 at 11:50pm
Our whole modern civilization is based on oil. Everything in our lives, right down to the food we eat, the fertilizer we use on our crops is reliant on oil. Big Oil owns our Government and I would venture to guess every Government in the modern world. The recent BP disaster proves it.
If we don't develop alternative fuels quickly our collective asses are going to be grass once we reach Peak Oil.
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Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#3Roger Ebert on BP and how our values have changed
Posted: 7/27/10 at 8:28am
Obama should do something about it. After being interviewed on The View, maybe Roger Ebert should interview Obama.
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#4Roger Ebert on BP and how our values have changed
Posted: 7/27/10 at 9:41am
Goth your expected random swipe at Obama is duly noted, but would you like to respond to any of Ebert's points?
Or are you just here to practice your typing?
#5Roger Ebert on BP and how our values have changed
Posted: 7/27/10 at 9:41am(Sorry; couldn't resist.)
#6Roger Ebert on BP and how our values have changed
Posted: 7/27/10 at 9:58amI'd certainly vote for Roger Ebert for President after reading that blog entry.
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Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#7Roger Ebert on BP and how our values have changed
Posted: 7/27/10 at 10:11am
"but would you like to respond to any of Ebert's points?"
I can't respond to incoherent rambling. Is the article about BP, is it about WalMart, is it about union organizing, is it about minimum wage, is it about evil Republicans? I can't make any sense out of the article.
The more interesting question that Ebert should be pounding hard is why are journalists not able to get near the site to take pictures?
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#8Roger Ebert on BP and how our values have changed
Posted: 7/27/10 at 10:14amThe big themes elude Goth.
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#9Roger Ebert on BP and how our values have changed
Posted: 7/27/10 at 10:18amIf you don't know what he was talking about, goth, how do you know Obama should do something about it?
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#10Roger Ebert on BP and how our values have changed
Posted: 7/27/10 at 10:22amI think Goth not knowing what Ebert was talking about pretty much tells us all we ever need to know about Goth.
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#11Roger Ebert on BP and how our values have changed
Posted: 7/27/10 at 10:48am
It was a pretty straight forward op-ed piece. How could you miss the point?
It was about a tree that fell in a Wal-Mart parking lot and how BP refused to let the unions photograph the oil.
....but the world goes 'round
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#12Roger Ebert on BP and how our values have changed
Posted: 7/27/10 at 10:53amEbert's slipping in his dotage. No mention of what a quitter/bad mother/Satan lover Sarah Palin is.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
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#13Roger Ebert on BP and how our values have changed
Posted: 7/27/10 at 10:59amThis is how Republicans argue: change the subject.
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#14Roger Ebert on BP and how our values have changed
Posted: 7/27/10 at 11:15am
"After being interviewed on The View, maybe Roger Ebert should interview Obama."
Ebert's being interviewed on The View? I think you're a little confused, Goth. It's Obama that's on The View. Ebert is no longer able to speak or even eat.
So...who is it again that's rambling incoherently and slipping in their dotage?
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#15Roger Ebert on BP and how our values have changed
Posted: 7/27/10 at 12:51pmGoth...you can't figure out this op-ed piece? Should we get The Little Golden Book of Grown Up Writing for you?
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#16Roger Ebert on BP and how our values have changed
Posted: 7/27/10 at 1:28pmIf Roger Ebert had been President of the United States during the last two terms, something tells me that Goth's reading comprehension level would be just as high as ours. Instead, (s)he is at the Don't-Ask-A-Child-To-Stay-Behind-Just-Tell-Them-We-Found-WMDs level where you don't question that a cow can jump over the moon.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
#17Roger Ebert on BP and how our values have changed
Posted: 7/28/10 at 5:39pmFor the first time in ages, I have respect for Roger Ebert>
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