"It's a man; it's a man."

[Skidmore]

Did you ever see the movie "The 13th Warrior?" Well, it may not be considered great art, but Antonio Banderas' line when he realized that the monsters the warriors were fighting were just other men seems appropriate at the end of this very eventuful week. I know I've been doing a lot of ranting about standing up and not acting like victims this morning. But I think we've learned this week just that lesson--that these monsters are men...only other men--and are defeatable. Don't lose sight of that truth. Regardless of how they constitute themselves as a group--party or corporation--or work as the lone wolf (like Coulter or Horowitz), the are just men.

Thus do I submit to you also the Prayer of the Viking from the same film--also somehow appropriate to the fight this week.

"Lo, there do I see my father
Lo, there do I see my mother and my sisters and my brothers
Lo, there do I see the line of my people back to the beginning
Lo, they do call to me
They bid me take place among them in the Halls of Valhalla
Where the brave may live forever..."

[bonito]

1. I watched that movie

The prayer scene was awesome.

[hedgehog]

2. I loved that movie because it covers a piece of history we

hardly ever see. Every time I see it, I notice something new. Who knew that the Vikings traveled inland through Russia to Constantinople? I especially enjoyed the contrast between the civilized Arab and barbarian Europeans! Even such details as the assortment of armor used seem right. We think of the Dark Ages as a drab time when nothing happened, but clearly some cultural exchanges were going on.

[Skidmore]

3. I love the film too, and for all the reasons you give.

It is a movie about enlightenment of a type as we have lost sight of in today's world.

[Cobalt-60]

4. The Horns of Power on Chimpie?

Maybe on Cheney, but not on the chimperor.
I'd rather deal with an honest horde of neanderthal cannibals than the Republicans, any day.