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September 22, 2004

Michael Moore in Syracuse

I grew up on Michael Moore. I remember this one moment very vividly: I was sitting in my living room with my mom and dad, watching TV Nation. Mr. Moore took communism for its last ride, driving an red 18-wheeler complete with star and sickle, and filled with USSR propaganda. He toured the US with it, judging people's reactions to the Socialist's Last Stand. I didn't really understand my dad and brother Jason laughing so hard, but I laughed, too; kids are supposed to emulate their elders when they don't know what to do.

It hadn't dawned on me then what the end of the cold war meant for us, but it would soon. GI Joe and Transformers gave way to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, reflecting our threat model's transition from the enemy who had a just plain different worldview from us to one who built better cars, knew ninjitsu, but otherwise played by the same rules. Fortunately open borders meant that Splinter could come and teach us how to fight on a level playing field. I've come to consider kids cartoons as one of the truest barometers of political climate.

Crowd.jpgTonight I got to hear the heralder of changing television programming give a speech in the Carrier Dome, to a sold-out crowd of 10,000+ no less. I had never been to a Moore speech before, and didn't know quite what to expect. I didn't anticipate not being able bring my camera inside (it seems odd that a person who fights large media would be reluctant to allow liberal bloggers to record his speech).

Of course, cameras in the traditional sense are becoming obsolete in lieue of new-fangled cellphones that can snap 1 megapixel pictures and even record soundbytes and movies. The speech was fairly predictable, a dash of Bush-bashing, a pinch of, "John Kerry is a Douchebag, but I'm Voting for him Anyway (and so should you)." The college republicans, while present, were fairly well-behaved, much to their credit.

Even Moore seems a little bit down these days, which is understandable. Let's just all promise to vote, and maybe make it a little more fun this time.

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