A Chasing After Wind

 

I wonder what would have happened if Bryan's speech had worked - partly. If they had agreed to return his daughter, but not Amanda. I think Bryan would have been like, "Great, fine," and moved on with his life. But I don't think Kim would have been OK with it.

 

(Of course realistically girls and young women in their position are much more in danger from their own fathers, stepfathers, boyfriends, and husbands than exotic human trafficking organizations)

So I'm watching Taken. Actually I'm watching it for the second and a half time. And I just found out about it last month. I cannot justify this movie. It's very well-done, but the plot is...not good. One detail I'm especially not thrilled with is the virgin/slut contrast between Kim and her friend Amanda.

With the podcast I listen to, You're Wrong About, I'm up to their episodes on Tipper Gore's campaign against Heavy Metal.

I'm reading Under His Very Windows by Susan Zuccotti, a depressing book about what little the Pope did to help Holocaust victims during World War II.

I'm re-reading my Cable and Deadpool trades. This was a Marvel comics series in 2004 that took two very different characters and put them in a book together. Cable is a soldier-from-the-future who has deep ties to X-Men continuity. Deadpool is a brain-damaged mercenary who cracks jokes and can break fourth wall. This leads to a hard-to-describe but very good series.