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OpinionJournal ^ | May 13, 2004 | Peggy Noonan

[condi2008]

I share an obsession with Tony Soprano. This startles me and makes me unhappy because it has been my experience that once my inner fears are echoed in the outer culture, some kind of grim critical mass has been achieved, and trouble ensues. (Does this sound oddly egocentric, even for a pundit? I think it may. Yet it's true.)
On Sunday's "The Sopranos," Tony stayed up one night channel-surfing. This is not unusual for Tony. His sins keep him awake. Or rather a perplexing question about his sins: Why has the committing of them become so joyless? Why don't they yield happiness?

He comes across a documentary about the potential use by terrorists of the nearby Port of Newark. The Port of Newark, the biggest port on the eastern seaboard, receives millions of ship containers each year; the feds say they can check only 2%; terrorists could easily smuggle in a dirty nuke.

Tony becomes alarmed. He knows Port Newark. The mob is there, his people are there. It is corrupt, lazy, badly run. Suddenly he realizes there's nothing between his home and kaboom but a chain-link fence and a mall.

He shares his new anxiety with everyone, sounding like a crank. When a bartender doesn't respond with the appropriate anxiety Tony becomes enraged and beats him up. Tony has anger problems. So does al Qaeda.

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[condi2008]

Peggy in her inimitable fashion...
If I lived there, I'd be more paranoid than I am already.

[dyed_in_the_wool]

Yet another reason I moved south of the Mason-Dixon line.
Hopefully, I'll be able to get back to bury my family.

[kellynla]

Anyone who is left to watching the "Sopranos"(an insult to every honest, hard working American of Italian/Sicilian ancestry) needs to reexamine their Sunday evening entertainment options...
In fact, just like less cigarettes and less booze, less television adds more to your life.

[Defiant]

an insult to every honest, hard working American of Italian/Sicilian ancestry

The Sopranos are from Naples.

[Gypssy]

Some conservatives watch and like the Sopranos, so do I. And I don't need to re-examine anything in my life. It doesn't insult anyone. Lighten up..being conservative doesn't have to mean boring.

[Gypssy]

I also enjoy sex very much.

[condi2008]

Never seen it.

[condi2008]

But I guess Peggy has.

[kellynla]

The Sopranos are from Naples
and the last time I checked Naples was still in Italy? LOL

[nutmeg]

Bada ping!

[nutmeg]

Bada ping!

[kellynla]

It doesn't insult anyone
You apparently don't know any honest, hard working Italians or Sicilians. Because if you did you wouldn't make such a ridiculous statement. The Sopranos is a bigoted stereotypical insult on an entire ethnic group.
Try the Tenors for a more fulfilling Sunday evening...with your sex. LOL

[presidio9]

Where are you from?

[muleskinner]

I've examined my Sunday night viewing options and have concluded that "The Sopranos" and "Deadwood" are the only series on T.V. worth my time.

[Gypssy]

My Sunday evenings are apparently more fulfilling than yours. The Tenors?? hahaha I know plenty Italians, some hardworking, some lazy..just like all groups of people. Lighten up and try Sopranos for your Sunday evenings.

[Hank Rearden]

Why doesn't our government provide us all with the means to survive an expected nuclear, biological or chemical attack?

Because George Bush and the other Big Stupid Government professional politicians thought it more important to waste our money on greedy-geezer vote-buying scams, subsidies and more government waste.

Why? To get reelected and do more of the same.

[kellynla]

My Sunday evenings are apparently more fulfilling than yours
Hardly, if you are left to watching television. LMAO

[Gypssy]

Sopranos are only 1 hour long. I take that as a time out! hahaha

[Defiant]

Your last post assumes that the gangsters portrayed are from Sicily, hence the insult to "Italy/Sicily".

[kellynla]

I've examined my Sunday night viewing options and have concluded that "The Sopranos" and "Deadwood" are the only series on T.V. worth my time.
Thanks for confirming my point. Refrain from watching the garbage on television and indulge in other forms of entertainment...