The Buck and Mike Blog

Last night, Buckley and I watched the DVD of the film “Everything Is Illuminated.” (I haven’t yet read the book by Jonathan Safran Foer, but William Goldman, author and screenwriter, wrote once that he considered a book and a movie to be completely separate creations that might just have the same name. The written word and film both have very different magical qualities that can’t be recreated in any other form, though a film may try to illustrate the visions presented in a book or vice versa.)

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I just read this article on The Onion, the satirical online news site calling itself “America’s Finest News Source.” This must-read article is entitled “Bill Of Rights Pared Down To A Manageable Six.”

Just in case you don’t know what the original ten are, here’s a link. And I’ll throw in a link to the National Archive’s site on the United States Constitution, for good measure.