[extropy-chat] Moore, Morford, Doonesbury & Dawkings [was: Mandatory draft for your child?]

[Spike]

> Olga Bourlin

>Mike, forget about Michael Moore for a minute (I'm not actually a fan
of
>his, and haven't even seen his movie) ...

See if you can find on video Michael Moore's first two movies,
"Roger and Me" and "Pets or Meat."  I was amazed at how a 
novelty-format movie, a bitterly comical documentary, could 
be simultaneously hilarious and tragic as all hell.  Moore
comes across as an angry whiney socialist who is actually 
extremely funny.  His later stuff comes across as merely an
angry whiney socialist.

Caveat: I viewed the second movie with a liberal friend who
utterly failed to see the humor among the wreckage of human
lives.  You do need to be in the mood for this kind of thing.
Its been well over a decade since Ive seen the films, so I do 
not know how the humor has held up.  

spike