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Who are you voting for, McCain or Palin?

I can't believe both dem and rep are talking about this 700 bil bailout. Is it socialist or is taxing the poor to save the wealthy a capitalist's wet dream? So fucking what if we have another depression - isn't that the free market at work, and the penalty for ignorance?

I finally saw Napoleon Dynamite. I didn't get it. The 70s and 80s retro had been done before that movie, married with children did the washed up HS football star, and the kid and Pedro just appear to be fetal alcohol syndrome kids. I mean I hear you either hated it or loved it, but I found it mildly amusing in parts and mostly ffwd-able. I think I was supposed to laugh at what a dork the guy was, feeling smug as I isolated the dissimilar traits of the outcast. Mostly...I don't get it.

Today I did squats with "new form" (uh, corrected again form) and wasn't able to do as many reps. It definitely felt weird so there will be an adjustment period, but I notice that for once my knees are not sore after lifting - so this screams of a good thing. Or the last screamed of a bad thing and I was too ignorant or stupid to hear.

I should get Chupacabra repellent for Chile.

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I liked Napoleon Dynamite, but I think whether you liked it or not comes from background/experience. I went to a small (500 student) high school in Texas. We were on the edge of suburbia and the sticks. Malls and civilization in one direction and cow towns in the other. The biggest club in our high school was Future Farmers of America.

Some people had to deal with jocks. I had to cope with farmboys and jocks--often in the same package. So I got the atmosphere of the school and the FHS contest part of the film. And as for his awkwardness, I guess I identified with being a geek/outsider in that kind of environment, where if you're anyway different, you really stand out and EVERYONE knows about you. There's a reason I moved to the East Coast the minute I graduated.

So I guess where you stand on the film depends entirely on your outlook.

I grew up in a similar environment, perhaps more urban but not by much (when I grew up Germantown had farms, not townhomes). We, geeks, were picked on by jocks - 100% movie classic style. However, we weren't slack-jawed liars like the fetal alcohol kids of this movie. I did know a tard or too, but they weren't really entertaining (for me or the jocks for that matter).

This movie didn't real deal with the jocks though, it was more about the dorks. The jocks weren't that bad, but they didn't seem a big part of the movie. It wasn't friendly to the outsider, it was just a sort of Truman show of him. What am I missing?