Video Dating

System Leaving Ukraine

If you’re following events over in Ukraine it’s obvious Russia is in serious cover up mode.  The two SA-11s they sent to the rebels last week and were presumably used to take down the Malaysian flight were quietly deployed back across the border to Russia, missing a couple missiles of course.  That’s the reports coming out of Ukraine along with photos of the systems passing back into Russia.  Yet here in the USA, Obama declared yesterday there is no proof the Russian government was involved in the downing of the flight.  So if we are to believe our illustrious leader the rebels snuck into Russia, stole some missile systems, shot down the airliner, and then returned the missile systems to Russia, all without Russian government knowledge.  That’s what our government is asking us to believe.  I’m more convinced than ever that Putin has compromising pictures of Obama that is blackmailing him with.

Safely Back in Russia

Date night, I reacquired my favorite date last night as my wife joined me to see Sex Tape.  This was another in the long line of recent raunchy comedies starring Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz.  They’re a married couple trying to rediscover their horny ways lost with the arrival of parenthood.  They choose to do that by videoing their connubial interactions.  Unfortunately the device they used is automatically synched with a number of other devices in the hands of friends, neighbors, and the mailman; hilarity ensues.

The movie was funny at times, as long as you could suspend your disbelief that Segel could ever score with Diaz.  Diaz has a real talent for comedy and she carries the movie, along with her fully toned backside.  The movie loses its way near the finish line as they try to get too cute and heartfelt instead of sticking with the outrageous gags.  This is also the first movie I’ve seen him in that Rob Codray doesn’t dominate as a supporting character; leads me to assume a weak writing team.  It was still a lot of laughs if a little uncomfortable at times.