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We had a small but enthusiastic turnout for the second movie night of 2009 on Wednesday night. The burritos and margaritas were some of the best (and strongest for the latter) I have had in Taiwan. Unfortunately, the alcohol did very little numb the sting produced by the punch of Errol Morris’s absolutely stunning documentary of Robert McNamara, The Fog of War. Frightening is just about all I can say. Listening to his account of the Cuban missile crises was really the first time I have realized just how close completely rational people on both sides of the Atlantic came a nuclear exchange, and therefore just how close I came to not being born 14 years later.

We will be planning more movie nights in Taipei, and hopefully in other cities, hopefully one a month. But we need you guys, the DAT members and supporters, to tell us what venues, times and movies you’d like to see with a bunch of like-minded (well at least somewhat like-minded) political film junkies. So drop us a line, really!

One more thing: Josh Davis, DAT treasurer and grad student at National Sun Yat-Sen University, has been getting his hands and feet dirty helping out in the relief efforts in the wake of Typhoon Morakot. I’m sure he’s not the only DAT member out on the front lines, but I thought I’d share a link to his most recent blog post about what their doing down there. http://web.me.com/jddavis79