Everybody Loves Friday Items

ITEM: Blade Runner: The Final Cut, now showing in LA and NYC, arrives in San Francisco November 30.
ITEM: Douglass Rushkoff on 9/11 “Truthers.” I have just about had it with these people. (Seems Bill Clinton feels similarly.)
ITEM: Mark Morford on the danger of progressive extremists. (He’s absolutely right, and, happily, this piece is less shrill than most Morford screeds.)
ITEM: Elementary school science: Nearly extinct. This is so depressing. By the time I have a school-aged child, will there be any public schools left worth sending him or her to?
ITEM: New Orleans, two years after Katrina, in pictures. Heartbreaking.