I.O.U.S.A. has made an auspicious debut in nationwide release. If you missed it last night, look on your favorite movie-search website for a “theater near you” this weekend. And not just because Roger Ebert gives it three and a half stars.

It’s funny how people react to it. Their perceptions are colored by their preconceived notions. Conservatives see it as a veiled call for tax increases. Liberals see it as a veiled call for slashing Social Security. It is, of course, neither of those things. But this is good. As I knew well back in my journalism days, if you managed to anger both sides of an issue, you did a decent job.