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Anton Chigurh, the assassin in No Country for Old Men, has three deadly weapons at his disposal, and he uses each one with such calculating dispatch that you’ll be hard pressed to find a creepier and more competent villain in any movie, ever.
The first weapon is a cattle gun, which doesn’t actually look like a gun at all. Carrying around an air canister and attached hose, Chigurh uses it to both kill people and blow out door locks. The second is a shotgun with a silencer. The third weapon? The scariest haircut you’ve ever seen.
According to Wikipedia, it’s known as a pageboy: “It involves straight hair hanging to below the ear where it usually turns under. Often there is a fringe (bangs) in the front.” It’s a style associated with old English pages, or servants. Now, it’s associated a homicidal maniac.
The only person Anton Chigurh serves is his internal psychopath. Hired to recover money that was lost in a drug deal gone awry, Chigurh seems less interested in money or finer points of his job description than with stalking and killing. In fact, I think he’d take any job provided it gave him an excuse to do those two things.
No Country for Old Men, made by the Cohen brothers, is an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s 2005 novel of the same name. Like many of McCarthy’s stories, there’s a lot of violence, an unglamorous western landscape, and an assortment of taciturn characters.
The movie is unlike typical Cohen brothers movies, however. There is very little humor, for one thing. And there is no soundtrack—nothing but contextual sounds of
That’s not to say I didn’t like it—I did. But it’s sort of unsettling to enjoy a movie that’s so dark …
From the Denver Post:
A little-known law allows each grocery chain to apply for a license to sell full-strength beer, wine and hard liquor in just one of its Colorado stores. A handful of chains have gone that route, including Safeway, which recently opened a Littleton store where shoppers can pick up a bottle of vodka with their loaf of bread.
I don’t want to imply that I’m so desperate for the booze that the Colorado blue law baning Sunday liquor sales is a major thorn in my side, but there have certainly been times that it has been a major hassle–hassle enough that I might would have trekked to Littleton to pick up a bottle.
The Post article reports that the legislature is once again going to try to repeal our antiquated blue laws. They didn’t have any luck beating the liquor store lobby in 2005, the last time they attempted to alter the status quo. The article doesn’t mention anything that would suggest the outcome will be any different this time around.
On last check, the online version of the article has 85 comments.
Responding to climate change involves an iterative risk management process that includes both adaptation and mitigation and takes into account climate change damages, co-benefits, sustainability, equity, and attitudes to risk.
From the November 2007 Synthesis Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report
To offer a pretty huge simplification, the popular argument about climate change has been, until recently, about whether anthropogenic climate change is truth or fiction.
Now that we’ve all (the mainstream, at least) come around to the inconvenient truth of the matter and the skeptics have scurried for cover (I realize it could be a tactical retreat), there’s a polarization vacuum. I don’t expect there to be a vacuum for long. People need to take sides. Since the denial iceberg has melted, I suspect people are looking for another floe to jump on.
I predict the new debate will pit those who would seek primarily to mitigate the effects of climate change against those who would seek primarily to adapt to the effects of climate change. While both will no doubt be necessary, as the latest and final installment of the IPCC’s report makes clear, I suspect that there will be partisans for one approach over the other. And look for the people who once denied climate change to make the leap to the Let’s Just Adapt argument.
To simplify even further and venture another guess, I bet that wealthier countries will prefer the adaptation model to the mitigation one, because while mitigation involves putting the breaks on certain behavior (never popular in a capitalist society), adaptation trends toward growth and new development (always popular).
Here ends Three Roads theme tinkering! (For now.)
Combine a million Wordpress template options, a slight knowledge of Photoshop and a willingness to tinker with stylesheets, and you’ve got ripe conditions for never-ending modifications. But at some point you just have to settle for a design and let it be.
I think–I hope–I’ve found one that I can live with. (K2 theme with a custom header image, if you care–which is unlikely.)
Anyway, if you found visiting Three Roads a jarring, discordant experience, I’m sorry. Things should be pretty stable from here on out.