Monday; Taliban, Lepers, Vinyl, Singers and Nazis

First up this Monday is Frontline; Behind Taliban Lines.  It is interesting to see how the Taliban works, and it seems like the group that this journalist got involved with are the Keystone Kops of the Taliban.  They can’t seem to get their shit together enough to figure out what to do.  I’m sure they can be violent and do great damage, but really they can’t seem to get themselves together enough to do any real damage.  It’s interesting that they all refer to the Americans/Coalition Forces as “the un-believers”. \

Triumph at Carville: A Tale of Leprosy in America.  Who knew there is a leper colony in America? In Carville, LA there is this hospital that has been operating for since the 1920’s working with people with leprosy.  It has been at the forefront of attitude and treatment of leprosy and is credited with finding the cure.  A lot of interviews with the employees, townspeople, patients and families of patients covering how the treatment and attitude toward the disease has changed over the years. 

Blue Vinyl is a diatribe against vinyl.  I get it, but nothing makes me dislike a documentary more than the holier than thou, this is bad and will cause cancer and we aren’t even going to try to present a non-biased argument at all.  Blarg. 90some minutes of preaching is annoying.

Next up is Afghan Star, which is following the contestants in an “American Idol” type of contest in Afghanistan.  One woman danced and uncovered her hair, and it was like she had flopped her tits out.  It was insane.  The song lyrics are also very silly, “The bend of your eyebrow is like the sting of a scorpion”.  I don’t know what that even means, but I can’t stop watching this.  I am waiting for the dancer lady to die.  Wow, they are showing old movies of Afghanistan in the 80’s when there was more freedom. That is very sad.

Inheritance is the very sad story of a woman who found out her father was a Nazi that was hung for war crimes, because he had been the commander of a concentration camp. This story is her going to meet one of the women that had been his “housekeeper” (read housekeeper as slave in his house”.  It is incredibly sad to see how one man destroyed not only his daughter and his wife (who committed suicide) but also the family of the woman he had held (her husband committed suicide as well).  All in all, WWII was a shit sandwich and we should be careful that we don’t go down that road again (that is a message to you teabaggers).