Seen any good movies?

We don't often think of a G-rated animated movie as giving us political direction, but Frank Rich's column in the N.Y. Times today gives a pretty good idea of how much we could learn by seeing the weekend's hit Wall-E. After reading and listening to some of the trivial political commentary which is coming think and fast in this election season, perhaps it would be good to turn to contemplating a possible future when the earth would be truly uninhabitable and where citizenship has become a carnival of unlimited shopping with government by a global corporation called Buy N Large. Even though this future is unlikely to come to pass, it contains enough possible truth to make us all think--and perhaps to question our government and ourselves about how we are going to build the future we really want for the generations to come.