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I haven’t watched the Oscars (or any other award show for a while). Last year (2010) really did it for me. With Sandra Bullock winning in “The Blind Side”.

After thinking about it for a while and seeing “The Social Network” (which I think should have been named “Social Network”, but I digress), I realized why I was so down on the Oscars.

For the Big 6 awards:

• Best Picture
• Best Actor in a Leading Role
• Best Actor in a Supporting Role
• Best Actress in a Leading Role
• Best Actress in a Supporting Role
• Best Director

Films and Actors / Actresses will be disqualified from nomination if the film has the following characteristics:

• Is a revision of a previously released movie proposed to the Academy (ie: a remake, reboot, etc.)
• Movies “based on a true story” can only be submitted after the protagonist has passed away (the whole story is finished).

While the stories like “The Blind Side” and “The Social Network” are entertaining, the stories are not finished. They are really not worth being told. Awarding a movie about about one snippet of people’s lives, is like giving a Pulitzer to a book based on one chapter.

I really want to separate the art of movie-making vs. a movie / performance as a work of art.

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Wow, only  months between posts.  Got my Onlive Microconsole last week.

Graphics quality is so-so, but the same experience is shown on my TV, PC, Mac and even the iPad.  So much potential.

What will make me a true believer?  A Netflix-style library.  Think GoG + OnLive.  I would totally pay a monthly fee to have a whole library of games at my finger tips.  Especially one that would travel with me.

After landing in Japan and going to a customer dinner, I stayed awake to watch the Japan / Paraguay game (11:00pm local time).  Fell asleep in the 2nd half.  Woke up to see Japan bounce a PK off the cross bar.

I was also in Asia for the 2002 WC.  I can remember watching the USA / Mexico Round of 16 game in a bar, and when the USA scored, I was the only one standing up and cheering…  (granted it was Singapore)  I wonder if this would have happened if I was in a bar overseas during the USA / Algeria game.

It was an average WC for the USA.  They need a striker.  Time to start getting all those undersized shooting guards and converting them to soccer forwards.

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But anyway, there’s a lot of little hubbub going on now in the political world, and in the spirit of gross oversimplification (ie. Left / Right, Liberal / Conservative, Democrat / Republican, Yankees / Red Sox), here is what I think the two biggest issues are in America:

• Corporations are afforded many of the same rights as people, which they shouldn’t.
  • This allows ease of creation of “non-profits” to make (now unlimited) donations to the politicians of their choice.
• “We have something the founding fathers never intended, career politicians… They make decisions to save their job.” – David Walker on “The Daily Show”.
  • Our “leaders” are no better than any joe off the street.  Coupled with item #1, means that our current laws

Solutions: I am a “liberal” in the current political terms.  However, what I propose should be fairly nonpartisan.

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