Various authors have weighed in on the weekend's opportunity for Hollywood to pat itself on the back for how enlightened and brave they are. Try Krauthammer's excellent column on the lie of Syrianna, which includes a description of the script and how at odds it is with reality.
On the very night the Oscars will be honoring ``Syriana,'' American soldiers will be fighting, some perhaps dying, in defense of precisely the kind of tolerant, modernizing Muslim leader that ``Syriana'' shows America slaughtering.
And,since it pisses the reality-based community off so much, here is a hilarious excerpt from Ann Coulter's Oscar predictions.
After consulting with the Yale admissions committee, the awards committee will give the Oscar to ... "Paradise Now," a heartwarming story about Palestinian suicide bombers. How good is it? Al-Jazeera gave it 4 1/2 pipe bombs. It's Air Syria's featured in-flight movie this month -- go figure! I don't want to spoil the ending for you, but let's just say there won't be a sequel.
If these aren't enough to keep you busy over the weekend while I binge on hockey, here is the column from Minnesota's own Katherine Kersten, on an entirely different subject.
Something momentous is happening here in the home of prairie populism: black flight. African-American families from the poorest neighborhoods are rapidly abandoning the district public schools, going to charter schools, and taking advantage of open enrollment at suburban public schools. Today, just around half of students who live in the city attend its district public schools.
Somebody should tell Kersten that this isn't really happening. Inner city families actually love their schools and are more than willing to forego education in order to preserve the relevence of these schools. They don't want anything better, and they certainly could not benefit from a voucher system.
They recognize that protecting the system is more important than any selfish desire to...say...educate their children.
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