Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Documentaries

I've been watching quite a few feature-length documentaries recently, and they've all made me either very angry or very sad.  Perhaps that's the point.  They include one on the industry that has grown up around school shootings and active shooters.  The fact that this is even a thing is tragic.  Another one was on the cover up of migrant murders committed by Border Control.  This was perhaps the most pertinent one to watch when you think about the many likely human rights atrocities currently being carried out by ICE.  And then I most recently watched a documentary on John and Yoko.  I cannot say whether Yoko caused the Beatles to split up or John to be assassinated, but what I can say is that the talent in that partnership was entirely one-sided - Yoko sucks as an artist, and as an unwelcome presence in everything John was doing, in every conceivable way.