Hysteria

In Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America”, the definition of marriage as that of a only a man and a woman was filed as the “act to restore dignity to the human family”. Now that’s marketing, sort of like the USA PATRIOT Act, with it’s surveillance measures seems anything but. It’s amazing that a generation that was alive when Senator Joe McCarthy was weeding out alleged Communist influence during a period of hysteria seems to be repeating the same mistakes since 911. It’s an irrational lashing out – so primitive.I saw ‘Spirited Away’. The movie is a completely beautiful, original story using traditional, hand-drawn animation techniques.