>bodhi wrote:
>

>> It was 30 years ago today that I drove over to the Toshi Station to
>> pick up some power converters ......

>
>Ah, yes, a movie about scrappy freedom fighters heroically resisting an Evil
>Empire who had labeled them "terrorists".
>
>Produced shortly after the Vietnam War.
>
>Then, because fascism takes about 30 years to recover from a peace movement,
>and because Jedi Lucas took 30 years to complete his movie cycle, the last
>prequel came out after the USA had fallen to the Dark Side in a sequence of
>events eerily similar to the ones Lucas scripted in the 1970s.
>