Just in case...

...you needed another reason to root against the Colts: Tony Dungy supports an anti-gay rights organization.

Ouch.

This looks like it hurt.

Good Bye, Lenin!

Last night, Ann and I watched Good Bye, Lenin!. It was an absolutely great movie. The perfect combination of humor and sentiment, along with a setting in probably one of the most interesting times in recent history.

For those of you who haven't seen it, the basic outline of the plot is that a woman in East Germany falls into a coma. She was a devoted patriot/communist, very involved in educating East German children in the ways of socialism. While she is in a coma, the Berlin wall comes down. When she wakes up, her doctor warns her son that any physical of psychological shocks could have dire health consequences. So the son decides to maintain the charade that East German communism is a strong as ever. This provides a great window into what life was like for East Germans during that first rush of capitalism, good and bad.

I vividly remember watching the Berlin wall come down, and the people partying on top of it, but I never really got a sense that this event was affecting individual people. I had a rudimentary understanding of the geopolitical implications (i.e. communism bad; freedom good), but the fact that a whole new world opened up for East Germans (particularly East Berliners) virtually overnight never occurred to me. Good Bye, Lenin! gets my highest recommendation.