Sunday, November 6, 2005

At the movies Saw Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit this afternoon. Entertaining movie. Everyone in the theater aside from my wife and me was a mom with a bunch of kids. This is the second time in the past few months that I've gone to see a movie that people think is just a kids movie. Wrong. There are a ton of puns and gags. Since I have an appointment to see Joe Biondo at Bosch Rexroth this week, I especially liked the bit where Gromit was building an enhanced rabbit cage using a hand power tool from "Botch." OK, I was the only one in the theater laughing at little things like that. Not the first time that's happened. Happens at Shakespearian plays too where many people don't get the inside jokes. My wife has learned to ignore me. 8:22:31 PM    comment []

Jim Pinto tackles poverty. Jim Pinto's latest newsletter tackles the idea of poverty as capitalism's Achilles Heel. I studied comparative political systems in graduate school and read how various thinkers contemplated what would be the most just system. Then we looked at the way some systems tried out the ideas in practice. Nothing solved all the problems of society. Poverty is a tough problem. I offer no solution. However, I do think that adherence to moral values that include recognizing greed as a bad thing (or "sin" depending upon your terminology) and the good involved for you as well as society when you help those less fortunate than you would move society in a direction of justice. 5:29:25 PM    comment []