A PASSAGE

Well, just leave it to extremists to misuse trends and potentials and lower the level of discourse.
There's a group that made a reactionary film titled, "Celsius 41.11" that apparently exists as a rebuttle to Michael Moore's existence. Go to their fine, upstanding website to revel in PATRIOTISM at it's most nauseating. In Florida the film is playing at numerous AMC theatres. Who's heard of it before? Nobody.
I was starting to get excited about the potential of mass media outlets finally being used as forums for education, what with Bowling For Columbine and The Corporation and even the new-agey What the Bleep Do We Know? Sure, they've all got their own slant, and they're not all that well done, but it feels like they're only attempting to make sense out of things rather than react thoughtlessly to a stimulus.
And it's not like we're NOT ALREADY bombarded with enough conservative dogma.
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Also, don't you think it's weird that we refer to the United States as "America?" That's such a convenient abrieviation that just happens to leave out, oh, say, Canada and all of Central and South America.
"Have you ever been to America?" We ask people from Latin countries and Canada. It's so arrogant and self-absorbed. We might as well each call our own respective dwelling "America," and be surprised by when "foreigners" come around.