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"Lose the Guilt" script and direction by Josh Garrett
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Call me old fashioned, but when I go to a baseball game, I go to see baseball. I know the game is boring, but I enjoy the intricacies and strategies involved. The vast majority of fans at Dodger Stadium, however, seem to attend the games for a different purpose entirely: beach balls. That's right, ten cents worth of plastic filled with air. Five minutes of game play do not go by without a ball appearing somewhere in the stands. And when a new ball does appear, the crowd goes wild! Once in a while during a game, a chorus of boos rises from one area of the stadium...your eyes dart towards the sound, expecting to see a throng of dedicated fans jeering an opposing player...but as it turns out, the boos are directed at a lowly employee of the home team who had the audacity to deflate one of the bounding spheres of fun. Depressed, dejected, and mourning the loss of their colorful companion, the fans return to their seats, only to be injected with a shot of exuberance when yet another ball appears accross the stadium. What is the fascination? Why do these people who wouldn't give a beach ball the time of day on a beach love and adore it inside Dodger Stadium? I can only imagine what it's like in the local 99 Cents Store before the game: dozens of fans, clad in Dodger blue, scrambling, shoving, stepping over each other to get the last one left...the holy grail of Dodger baseball...the beach ball.
P.S. The preceding comments were in no way influenced by the fact that I am a Giants fan.
As an American citizen and fan of the US Constitution, I was appalled by the news that President Bush has authorized hundreds, if not thousands, of wiretaps to spy on Americans without court approval. I first learned of the concept of "checks and balances" in my fifth grade classroom, and as I learned more about it, I came to understand it as an invaluable part of the US system of government. Our president unilaterally circumventing the checks on his authority is a violation of our laws, a violation of the ideals upon which our Constitution is founded, and a violation of the public trust. As he has done in countless other cases, the President has responded to criticism on this issue with a simple excuse: "I'm fighting the terrorists." I, for one, am tired of hearing this excuse and reject it outright as a pathetic pretext for violating the laws and values Americans hold sacred. If "the terrorists" have caused our own president to violate the law of the land, then they can claim victory.
My anger at the President and his Administration only increased when he began to publicly respond to criticism on the domestic spying issue. He seemed to take these accusations lightly, insisting that his actions were leagal and appropriate, once again citing the "terrorist threat" as justification for his shady actions. Furthermore, his defenses are NOT FACTUALLY SOUND. The subjects of the eavsdropping were NOT exclusively potential terrorists--many were actually average Americans ("Spy Agency Data After Sept. 11 Led F.B.I. to Dead Ends," New York Times, January 17, 2006). The opposition to the program is NOT partisan--Democrats and Republicans alike have expressed concern that the program exceeds legal presidential authority. President Bush did NOT seek explicit congressional approval for the program--the argument that it was included in his "expanded war powers" is misleading and leagally dubious at best. President Bush has broken the law and disrespected the US Constitution. He has betrayed the trust of the American public. He should be investigated and impeached and, if found to be responsible for illegal acts, removed from office. The sooner he faces the music, the better off our nation will be.
