tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post307632630626289097..comments2024-03-28T16:26:28.642-05:00Comments on driftglass: The Men Who Shot Ransom Stoddarddriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-35600065395376242112016-01-16T19:29:05.542-06:002016-01-16T19:29:05.542-06:00I've sometimes thought that every libertarian ...I've sometimes thought that every libertarian should be required to watch <i>The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance</i>, but that would assume they would understand it.Inconstant Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02511016008975645957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-39445969321892019642016-01-15T07:11:21.583-06:002016-01-15T07:11:21.583-06:00You probably know this. John Wayne's worst fil...You probably know this. John Wayne's worst film, The Conquerors is what killed him. Filmed in a location that was down wind from a nuclear test range, the entire cast and crew were exposed to radioactive soil for weeks. Many of them later died horrible deaths.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12710348040257922919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-21415917571286735832016-01-14T21:16:00.933-06:002016-01-14T21:16:00.933-06:00Read Robert Ray's book A Certain Tendency of t...Read Robert Ray's book A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema that deals particularly with the myth of the outlaw heroin American ideology. The official hero (Jimmy Stewart) is the moral center, but the outlaw hero (John Wayne) is the interest center. The film works towards their reconciliation, and thus to the avoidance of choice between the two. Bazzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14291672757623077502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-838354272673484432016-01-14T20:00:05.614-06:002016-01-14T20:00:05.614-06:00Nailed it.
I'm sure there's something some...Nailed it.<br />I'm sure there's something somewhere in the psychiatric literature about "compensation fantasies" [e.g. the adopted girl who is sure her real mother and father are royalty or whatever and she is really a princess].<br />And that's what this John Wayne thing is. <br />The GOP "base" is not a bunch of under-100 IQs who have been fcked over by the oligarchs of money, they are really courageous independent cowboys with shootin' arns and freedom! That is why I say again, we have to regulate cowboy hats even if we can't regulate firearmsbowtiejackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03269786110593961195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-66627344321293584742016-01-14T19:32:16.294-06:002016-01-14T19:32:16.294-06:00". . . as you go down all alone." Hmmm....". . . as you go down all alone." Hmmm. Pretty certain these assholes and the assholes below deck are damned intent on taking the rest of us down with them.milegrinderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07080871292023560660noreply@blogger.com