Tonight I finally gave in and celebrated the Fourth of July. What better way to get into the spirit then enjoying a quality Bruce Willis action movie. Live Free or Die Hard, the 2007 thriller about an attempt to seize the computer infrastructure of the ....US.... seemed to be a logical choice. The 3-star rating it received sealed the deal.

I did not ask for much going in. All I needed was a back-story interesting enough to cover for all he wanton violence standard with every Bruce Willis movie. Sure, Willis is getting older, but no movie in this series would be complete without several violent scenes with some bordering on mass murder. All of this, of course, is done in the service of setting up Willis for the final triumph of good over evil.

Even these small expectations were dashed. Willis' character is essentially a violent Luddite barbarian battling against evil 21st century hackers. The movie begins with a tractor-trailer full of hackers doing their evil business - why are they there? Why do they take orders from one person? Well, who cares? They are evil and at war with "our country" (a term used seemingly every five minutes) – the now classic "evil-doers."read more »

On Saturday July 12th the Coalition Against
Privatization will organize a day of outreach to build
community awareness about our campaign to stop the
privatization of GHI & HIP and the growing movement in
support of a National Health Insurance Plan (H. R.
676). We are setting up in front of local
supermarkets or other high-traffic areas. July 12th
is the first of two days of community organizing (July
26th is the other) to build support for our July 30th
celebration of the birthday of Medicare (details to
follow).

If you would like to organize an outreach site in your
neighborhood please contact us or if you would like to
meet-up with a local CAP organizer please contact them
directly. We will spend a day with our friends,
family and neighbors talking about the need to makeread more »