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Good evening everyone.

Checking in for another blog post (been a while!).

Here are a couple of things of note that I thought I would share.

I saw Mission Impossible 3 last night. It was great! It had a perfect mix of humor, action and sentiment and broke the mold on the genre in a couple of ways. I really, really enjoyed it. So everyone go check it out.

It was written and directed by a guy called J.J Abrams who, as those of you who follow these things will know, created Alias and Lost. He has also just been announced as the producer, writer and possible director of the next Star Trek movie. We will see how that turns out.

Today I saw Coach Carter. In many ways it was a typical teacher/coach inspirational movie. But it was done well and I love Sam Jackson. There was one particular quote that I thought was great so I will share:

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

And finally and perhaps most importantly Stephen Colbert kicked ass at the Correspondents Dinner recently. What does all that mean? Well..

Stephen Colbert is a fake news correspondent who does a parody show on Comedy Central. He pretends to be a conservative who loves George Bush, but he actually uses his unflinching loyal persona to show the irony and blind faith that the neo-conservatives have in flawed and failed policies in US and World politics.

All of this is all very good - but Stephen was invited to speak at the annual Correspondents dinner at the White House in the presence of George Bush himself. He laid the smack down and told him how it was - using Bush's own rhetoric against him.

It was a historic event of comedy, politics and pure balls to tell the most powerful dumb man how stupid he really is.

It was available online to watch on YouTube.com and others - but it has all been pulled down for 'breach of copyright'. I think it's a Whitehouse conspiracy to squash the event personally...