"Stranger than Fiction."

This movie should be called "Dumber than Fiction!" I hadn't even heard of this movie title until yesterday afternoon, and I wish I still had never heard of it.

I found this movie in the DVD collection, and I thought, "I've never seen this one, so why not?" After all, Will Ferrell is a pretty funny guy.

This movie is horrible.

First, who is going to believe that you are going to be receiving secret messages through your wristwatch, except for maybe a schizophrenic? (Subsequently, which was addressed in the movie.)

Second, the plot was bogus and not even mildly amusing. The poor guy worked for the IRS as an auditor. He falls in love with a Harvard Law dropout, who now runs a bakery and refuses to pay the last quarter of her taxes. "She's stealing from the government," duh! But she still bakes Will Ferrell some cookies, which he perceives as a bribe. (He's a G-Man to the end.)

On to more tragedy from this alleged comedy.

I knew we were in trouble when Queen Latifah showed up and told the eccentric writer, who was standing on her desk, imagining what the breeze would feel like just before you died after leaping from a building, that she was there to help her secretly finish her novel. (Who's buying that farce?)

I did not finish the movie. I pressed stop and stepped away. To even insult this movie further, I was mostly drunk while watching it. I'd had five gin and tonics. Being drunk leads me to believe everything is funny. There was no laughter directed at this movie.

Ebert & Roeper gave it "two thumbs way up!"

Whatever!

President Obama addresses America's youth

I don't understand why parents think that addressing students about their goals and education, by Barack Obama, is an act of socialism. I think it is an act of caring about our future. I was told by someone at school that a parent had come to the school to say that if we showed the television address she would keep her child at home that day.

I hadn't really thought about it, but I think now that I will show it. It only proves that people need a little culture in their lives!

Former Bush Administration not immune from prosecution

In the months following 9/11, the administration of George W. Bush systematically threw off the confines of the United States Constitution in order to "fight" an unmonitored war on terrorism.

Almost eight years later, some justice may be rendered in the illegal activities of Bush's cronies, like former Attorney General John Ashcroft.

Abdullah al-Kidd, an American born citizen, was held by for sixteen days by the FBI, which caused him to lose his job and family. He was part of a sting operation that monitored Muslim men. Mr. Abdullah al-Kidd is now suing Ashcroft for his illegal detention in 2003. I believe it may take some time, but the infrastructure of lies and deceit created by the Bush administration will slowly come apart, leading to the implication of many, many Bush cronies.