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I remember in elementary school, we seemed to read a lot of books about people isolated from civilization.

There was this one about a woman who was trapped for eighteen years alone on an island, after her tribe had been relocated off, and there was this white guy and this dog there trying to kill her or something, but eventually the white guy left and she tamed the dog. (Elementary school is where we learn that white people are evil, from books like this, along with Sounder, and Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry.)

There was this other one about this kid who hid in the woods all summer to do algae experiments or something, and there was this one guy who called him "Thoreau" all the time in the book, but not in the movie until the end.

Also of note: a story we read about some hiding children in Nazi Germany. It was scary that they had to hide in a crawlspace and that the people hiding them would be arrested if they were caught with a certain newspaper. Highlights include one of us reading aloud from the book in a chapter that contained "Goddammit" in dialogue, and when they all got to America the guy who hid them asked for cigarettes in broken English and thought he did rather well because he got the cigarettes.

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From Kevin Smith: A short film about Dante and Randal stuck in traffic, which asks the question, "what would you do for a flying car?"

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We won't be seeing as much of Dennis Miller on Monday Night Football. It makes me think I missed a golden opportunity to reconnect with my brother by hanging out with him Monday nights for football. It's the perfect compromise; I don't understand the intricacies of football, and he doesn't understand Dennis Miller.

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This is a little creepy. As I write this, an article available on the Internet is talking about a flight that is still in the air. Uses a lot of future tense verbs, like the plane "will be allowed to land".

The plane is being shadowed by the Canadian air force, which strikes me as really cool for some reason. Other regions of the world can't trust their neighbors, but ours are watching our back without any hesitation whatsoever.