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...going to the North Pole, Fred befriends a young black kid from an orphanage... But no, it's all too painfully predictable. Halfway through the movie, I gave up hoping it would display a modicum of logic, a sentence of sense, a subordinate clause of sanity. Besides, as Chico Marx so acutely observed, "There ain't so sanity clause...
...part, Sheffield describes himself in a singsong voice as “a libertarian in apostasy with a healthy appreciation for Marx.” By this, Sheffield means that he is opposed to the government regulating the individual rights and welfare of the people, but he definitely does not support the typically libertarian view point that people are responsible for their own well-being. Sheffield calls this the “self-ownership axiom,” but he adamantly believes that the way to raise people out of economic despondency is not through redistribution, but through work...
...Sheffield practices what he preaches, spending summers working on police violence and domestic abuse research in places like Argentina and his home town of Fayetteville, N,C. As he waxes eloquent on philosophy and his love of Marx (he claims that the two nights after the first time he read Marx he didn’t sleep), Sheffield’s frustration with the perception of libertarianism is clear...
...partisan bona fides. At the last Democratic debate, Joe Biden said that Rudy Giuliani was "the most uninformed person on American foreign policy now running for President." And in a blisteringly partisan speech to the Young Republican National Convention in July, Mitt Romney first compared Hillary Clinton to Karl Marx, and then claimed that "with her economic plan, Hillary Clinton couldn't be elected president of France...
Before M*A*S*H, the line between TV comedy and TV drama was as well demarcated as the DMZ between the two Koreas. This military-doctor comedy daringly combined zany humor--equal parts Marx Brothers slapstick and high-class wordplay--with dark drama, as when the war claimed the life of the base's first chief, Lieut. Colonel Henry Blake. (The show banned canned laughter in its operating-room scenes, presaging today's single-camera, laugh-track-free comedies.) Like many great shows, M*A*S*H stayed on the air a few years too long. But it proved...