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They've been playing "Die Hard" many times during the last month and I've
watched it many times. I must admit that I get a kick out of McClain answering the terrorist's admonition that he won't shoot because he's a cop and McClain answers that his chief keeps telling him to follow the rules, ironically....

posted by WindTapper on February 26, 2008 at 4:55 PM | link to this | reply

Re: Nautikos, exactly what I was wondering. Can't pretty good people
exist without pointing at their warts, or their 'Only" wart....rather, ignoring that wart and talking about the rest of them?

posted by benzinha on February 22, 2008 at 8:10 AM | link to this | reply

Re: Ben
seedllings, that is true, but I wonder whether it would become a popular read or dismissed as too too 'nice' and 'unrealistic' as all people are now seen as flawed only, and self-indulgent in the area of their flaws.

posted by benzinha on February 22, 2008 at 8:08 AM | link to this | reply

benzinha
Your post made me reflect - why have good cops, or in fact any people without major flaws, become so 'un-cool'? And of course, I have no answer. Maybe others have...

posted by Nautikos on February 20, 2008 at 5:14 PM | link to this | reply

Ben
It's your world of writing, you get to make the rules

posted by SEEDLINGS on February 20, 2008 at 2:39 PM | link to this | reply

That's what I was thinking, just another neighbor in my book....

posted by benzinha on February 20, 2008 at 2:02 PM | link to this | reply

I think it is enough to write of them as people
Then we see the good

posted by Azur on February 20, 2008 at 1:46 PM | link to this | reply