Published 2/25/2008
by Patt Morrison
at Entertainment on HuffingtonPost.com
With the Oscars and the Grammys just behind us, why not enlist film and song titles (and even literature -- remember literature?) to assess the news that Ralph Nader has figured out how to recycle all those ''Nader for President'' buttons:
He's running again.
Here are a few of mine, in some cases tweaked a bit to suit the man who's tweaked the public's noses since 2000. Have at it, kids -- and have fun. Not even nice, clean fun. Just let fly.
-- The Thing With Two Heads
-- The Heartbreak Kid [sequel]
-- Unsafe at Any Age
-- No Country for Old Men
-- Dumb and Dumber
-- Lost Horizon
-- One Flew Into the Cuckoo's Nest
-- Point of No Return
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