Isn't it widely held that he was a figurehead and Tojo was the one responsible for Japan's conduct in WWII?
That may be the prevailing view, but there is considerable dissent regarding Hirohito's culpability.
Lorne: Back in Pylea they used to call me "sweet potato." Connor: Really. Lorne: Yeah, well, the exact translation was "fragrant tuber" but…
'Conviction (1)'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tom Scola - Sep 05, 2007 4:56:41 pm PDT #8613 of 10001
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Ginger - Sep 05, 2007 4:56:53 pm PDT #8614 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I had the same response to Hirohito. I don't think there's evidence that Hirohito masterminded atrocities in anything like the way Hitler or Pol Pot did.
Fred Pete - Sep 05, 2007 4:58:25 pm PDT #8615 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
What Matt said about Hirohito. He certainly wasn't a hero, and I've read at least one biography that suggested that he could have stopped things if he'd pushed hard enough (based on his having halted at least one military-organized massacre of Japanese politicians by completely losing his temper), but others are more deserving of a place on that list.
Of the 10 controversial, I've seen Last Tango in Paris, Birth of a Nation, and in college a long time ago, Clockwork Orange.
Can't say I cared for Last Tango. I kept asking myself, what's the point? Which is frequently my reaction to lives of quiet desperation.
Birth of a Nation starts out as a relatively passable Civil War melodrama. After about 45 minutes to an hour, it turns its attention toward Reconstruction. And by the hour and a half mark, you start thinking it couldn't get any worse. But it does. And it does again.
I remember Clockwork as a movie with something to say, though I may be confusing it with the book, which I had read a short time before but haven't read since. At worst, I'd place it in the category of valiant efforts of the early '70s -- movies that tried to use the greater freedom to tell a story that wouldn't have been allowed on screen a few years before, and so deserves some respect for what it tried to do even if it didn't quite succeed. Though I should probably see it again before I try to defend that opinion.
DavidS - Sep 05, 2007 5:08:07 pm PDT #8616 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Matilda News Update: First steps today!
Actually, Emmett was watching her while I made him a quesadilla and he started yelling excitedly. So I came out and she walked three steps to me.
When we reported this to JZ she told us that Matilda had also walked at daycare today.
Ambulatory danger baby!
Tom Scola - Sep 05, 2007 5:14:40 pm PDT #8617 of 10001
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First steps today!
WOOT!!
Lee - Sep 05, 2007 5:18:40 pm PDT #8618 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Go Matilda!
Jesse - Sep 05, 2007 5:18:46 pm PDT #8619 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
WATCH OUT!!
SuziQ - Sep 05, 2007 5:21:14 pm PDT #8620 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Mwah-ha-ha-ha
GO Matilda!!!
hippocampus - Sep 05, 2007 5:21:27 pm PDT #8621 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
BigDuluth - Sep 05, 2007 5:21:30 pm PDT #8622 of 10001
"I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world"
yeah, it's a version of "he's not a bad person, he just did a bad thing. And he didn't realize it was a bad thing" Of course, how can you not realize something's bad when it's illegal
Vick played in Blacksburg (about 30 minutes from me) VA Tech football is such a money pull, with him being such a large pull when he played there I'm sure dog fighting is the tip of the iceberg.
Regardless... how can a person make it through their 20th year of existance and not pick up that such a thing would be wrong?