Wherein I continue to flog the merits of movies made well before I was conceived in favor of the tripe produced by Hollywood today…
Sorcerers, crocodiles, ethnically-inappropriate mushrooms and overheated dinosaurs are just some of the things to be seen in Fantasia, a cartoon that’s never really found a niche.
Disney couldn’t really have been blamed for […]
Archive for September, 2006
Bailing Mops and Dancing Hippopotami
Published by September 29th, 2006 in Why Culture Sucks. 2 CommentsMission Accomplished! (Qaeda)
Published by September 29th, 2006 in You Must be F***ing Kidding and O, Pine With Me. 2 CommentsYou know, you really have to hand it to those Jihadists.
Osama Bin Laden was almost eerily prophetic in his vision. In only five years he managed to catalyze a transformation of the United States from a relatively prosperous, peaceful and respected nation into a debased land filled with frightened citizens willing to utterly throw away […]
The latest on the US’s mismanagement in Iraq is that its new police training facility is a “disaster”.
The Baghdad Police College, hailed as crucial to U.S. efforts to prepare Iraqis to take control of the country’s security, was so poorly constructed that feces and urine rained from the ceilings in student barracks. Floors heaved inches […]
My friends and I were of the opinion that our school’s authority figures were more or less out of touch, irrelevant and unaware of the things that mattered to us — and, I think, many of us also knew that the things that mattered to us … didn’t really matter. The game of “growing […]
Frist: Congress to File for Moral Bankruptcy Protection
Published by September 25th, 2006 in Snarks. 0 CommentsWASHINGTON — Facing an ongoing set of failures on domestic and foreign fronts, the Congress of the United States has filed for Chapter 11 protection under the Moral Bankruptcy Codes.
“Between the clear selling-out we did a few years ago to get votes from the right-wing fundamentalist religious loonies and the way we’ve sold conservatism, America […]
The TSA has relaxed some if its pointless bans. You can now carry lip gloss and hand lotion onto aircraft.
Good thing, too — I was getting tired of the chafing.
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A Real Movie: Rosebuds and Snow Globes
Published by September 22nd, 2006 in Why Culture Sucks. 1 CommentI’ve more or less given up on American movies, or at least the stuff currently being spewed by Hollywood. There seems to have been one marketing focus group meeting too many of late. Movies are made by committee, cynically packaged based not on quality, vision or merit, but rather on what’s likely to sell.
It’s so […]
This is a tough one because of the sensitivities of various groups involved. Glancing at the LA Times yesterday I came across a headline that read “‘Nice, Sweet Lady,’ 83, Deported for Nazi Past”.
I wasn’t sure what I’d find on linking to the article.
Really — was it going to be a saccharine play for sympathy? […]
The news about a 3.3 million-year-old ancestor of “Lucy”, a very early human ancestor, is breaking all over the place, including this headline from the Washington Post:
3.3 Million Years Later, Skeleton of Girl Found
…Which led John Mark Karr to confess yesterday to her murder.
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Another Defective Trifecta
Published by September 20th, 2006 in You Must be F***ing Kidding. 0 CommentsI wonder how long it’ll be before Dick and Rummy send their stormtroopers after me. After all, I’m guilty of moral confusion and appeasement by posting things such as this.
We’ve got a reporter in Iraq telling us the situation there is inhuman; we’ve got another in D.C. telling us the Fed is refusing to do […]
In his address to the UN General Assembly today, Il Duce revealed his latest excuse for the Iraqi debacle.
I don’t see any reason to cover most of the rhetoric, which is predictable, but as an aside he does make the claim that the new presidents of Iraq and Afghanistan have given voice to “more than […]
Why They Hate Us #3,215
Published by September 19th, 2006 in You Must be F***ing Kidding and One Thousand Words. 0 CommentsA 2,000-word column:
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