Savantery

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/abortion-foes-find-new-ways-to-get-details-about-patients-doctors/2015/08/25/c9d0cac0-3ba8-11e5-8e98-115a3cf7d7ae_story.html?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_headlines

I am not exactly sure how I feel about this, but on the one hand...remember when they used to put people with CCW licenses in the paper?  Or that paper in New York that put the names and addresses of gun owners in public?  In some ways, I think, this is the same thing...if you enter an abortion clinic -- exercising your First Amendment rights -- one could argue that, well, you should WANT people to know it (the Planned Parenthood types certainly do) and it shouldn't be a concern...sort of like Ashley Madison, right, we're all consenting adults here!

Watched two more movies off the list:  "Two-Lane Blacktop" and "Footlight Parade."  The first -- which stars James Taylor and Denis Wilson of the Beach Boys -- was interesting; not great, but I liked it...from what I could tell, it was about street racing, and in 1971, it was something that was simply not done...The second I liked; it was James Cagney after "The Public Enemy," and then he morphed to a Broadway musical specialist moving to Hollywood...so it was a career shift.  I liked it-- the musicals were shoved to the end -- and it did have some humor..of many varieties.

Two other things:  while watching him in the beginning, I was like..this is how he could do "Yankee Doodle Dandy."  And, watching some commentary afterward...they mentioned how "Footlight" made it possible.  Also, there is one number with swimming and dancing routines and whatnot...and I was like, hmmm, this is basically Esther Williams.  Sure enough, they mentioned how this film made her career possible.  I don't know if I should be pleased or appalled...