Justice

Although I love the movie "Defiance," the scene in which the Jews in hiding beat the German soldier (I'm not sure whether he was an SS or regular army) always disturbs me. A lot. Perhaps it's because I do not understand war and have never lost anyone close to me to the brutality of war (or anything other than cancer and horrific car accidents, actually), but when the bereaved mothers start yelling the names of their sons and cry, "Justice!" I cannot view their bashing in of the man's head with rifle butts as justice, but rather as murder. How does one justify the life of another? I do not understand how one can view the taking of a life as justice. In war, both the guilty and the innocent, both civilians and combatants, perish. But, perhaps it is because things are different in war.

The Stoning of Soraya M. [Again]

Hot Air mentions a blogger get-together in Minneapolis. I don't even know of a theatre in Pennsylvania showing "The Stoning of Soraya M.," which, by the way, I've been wanting to see since this past fall.

Expelled

I was preparing to check out at the bookstore today when I glanced down at the DVDs. Lo and behold, Ben Stein's Expelled was front and center, and at only $10, there was no way I'd pass that up -- a $10 DVD? What self-respecting college student would pass up that opportunity? Of course, I also walked away with The Bank Job, but nevermind.
I first saw Expelled's preview on An American Carol, and I've been searching for it ever since. It seems to be a documentary (I'll watch it tomorrow evening . . . this evening I'm dining with the Ambassador of Zimbabwe!) about educators and scientists who have been persecuted and/or fired for their belief in intelligent design. I don't know that any of my college professors have to worry about that.