Slumdog... Periello (2 separate thoughts)

Took my 14 year old to dinner and a movie to celebrate her straight A's (just 2 of us). saw Slumdog Millionaire. Great movie, in part because its so different. Sweet love story, plus gritty look at life in India's slums. Supposedly the "Bollywood" filmmakers there are upset because it showed the slums extensively, which I guess they avoid. In any case a really good film.

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Saw new 5th District Congressman Tom Periello on MSNBC yesterday, discussing the proposed stimulus plan ... rationally, coherently, with articulation - and minus the red meat partisanship, jingoism and inflammatory rhetoric of the deposed Virgil Goode.

5th district residents should feel good about the change to Periello from Goode. He looks and sounds fresh, intelligent, upbeat and eager to make a difference. Another good argument for term limits - or for people just getting up off the couch and voting for change. We'll see if Washington "corrupts" Tom - whom Goode tried to portray as some sort of Un-American terrorist with commercials designed to inflame his more rural (redneck) base - but so far, so good.