[mrustow]

Yep, with me. Quoting speeches by imaginary characters to help make a political point in the real world...well, that's so Junior Year of High School, you know?

Well, actually, I don't. I don't know of any high school juniors who write on this level, but maybe you went to a very special high school with, I don't know, Hunter Thompson, Tom Wolfe, and some other, similar juniors. But hey, it's your prerogative to find any excuse for not liking a writer. Pundits are a dime a dozen, and one does need some personal sorting mechanism. Yours, or so you say, is quoting from fiction. So, that would preclude your reading political essays by any author who quotes from Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, Homer, Sophocles or Goethe, for but a few examples.

[HitmanLV]

Funny you should wonder, I attended and graduated from Regis High School in NYC, one of the finest high schools in the nation, and indeed the world. Not many Juniors there like Hunter Thompson and Tom Wolfe, I admit. But a much better breed than the average bear.

As for me, I only said that extended quotes from fictional characters tends to undermine an article's credibility. I think that is basically true - we're not talking about a line or two here as a preface to an article or a section, nor a line or 2 from The Bard. We're talking about an extended exchange between 2 characters in a film (a good film, but certainly not a great film).

Further, you seem to equate the quality of the writing in this article with the writing of Hunter Thompson and Tom Wolfe. Not content with that, you then seem to equate an exchange in "A Few Good Men" with quotes from Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, Homer, Sophocles or Goethe.

That you can seriosuly make comparisons like that speaks volumes for you. WHISPERED HINT: It isn't flattering!

[Jack Black]

Homer, fiction? I've always considered it history, but you could go either way I guess.