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I know, diarrhea of the word processor. Never write a hundred words when 5,000 can be posted just as easily. But she is worth reading for some of the observations in her angst laden roadside bombs. Like today:

Meanwhile, the war drags on in Iraq, where the worthless Baghdad government has fled the blistering summer heat while American soldiers, laden with their battle gear, suffer and die. When will this fruitless exercise in nation building end? No one will ever resolve the eternal hatreds and ethnic rivalries of the Middle East, which have been churning and festering for 5,000 years. The extremist Muslim drama is only half the story.

She is so full of shit that her hair has turned brown regarding her praise of Ingmar, Antonioni, and the glories of all foreign movies of the 50s and 60s. But there's a there there. Especially the YouTube Astaire-Rita Hayworth dance sequence done to Mazzy Star's dirgelike "Fade Into You," which is only great. And I mean great. My own Homage to Rita is here.