I'm sorry to have missed the oscars, it always restores my lack of faith in humankind, and now I may tend to be dangerously optimistic.

   I'm finding myself in a curious middle position lately. I don't mind Moore's comments in the least, don't find them in any way inappropriate, and yet I don't think he strained his reserve of courage in making them, either.

   But they're hyperbolic, and I'm not in the mood. There are better, more sensible comments posted here, above, from many people. The power of Moore's work isn't in his clever little sound-bytes.

I'm not sure the election results were fiction--unusual, okay, not what I wanted, sure. I'm not sure how Bush is a fictional President--meaning he is a puppet? or because he lacked the popular vote? Or both? Or What? Because he isn't as bright or experienced or credible as a chief exec ought to be? All right, I'm okay with that. He instills deep worry--I'm fatigued with it--generally acts as though he were elected with a firm mandate--that's a fiction.

As I read the quote above Moore didn't say it was a fictional war, but that the reasons for it were fiction. Well I think it's very mixed and doubt anyone has all the motives, even their own, all neatly inventoried. That's a Rush Limbaugh kind of thing, impuning dark motives, even to positive results that he can't dismiss, and I'm willing to grant that the better, nobler motives are mixed in there a little too. Liberals don't own them. Everyone seems better informed, and better able to predict the future, than I. I hope it turns out better than the Best Picture award usually does.