Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Spider Man 2 Rocked and YOU KNOW IT!
Of course, miss Flower disagrees. But I challenge her (or anyone else for that matter) to provide good enough reason why I shouldn't think Spider Man 2 was the best of the trilogy and one of the best comic book movies of all time. I mean, Rotten Tomatoes can't be wrong can it?
Friday, December 21, 2007
Disagree: Stupidity Killed the President, not T.V.
When I read the title I think… “Video Killed the Radio Star.”
I think what killed the American President is good old fashion stupidity. I think it goes way back to the old adage, if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and waddles like a duck, then it must be a duck. It is hard to hide your true colors when the whole world is watching. The only reason why our older presidents look astute is the fact that they could hide behind the title. Everyone has made stupid choices and even more stupid actions, with television the stupidity is amplified.
It also goes under the Darwinian idea of natural selection combined with the message from “Idicocracy.” There was a time where man needed to be smart to survive. In turn, her children were able to learn from and mimic intelligent behavior. Once man conquered most of the known world, circumstances changed. Now, the intelligent humans are waiting till they are older, wiser, and more stable to raise well brought up children. This means that there are fewer children raised in an environment well suited for developing brainiac children. It is also perpetuated by the abstinence only programs being forced down our ever growing poor youth. They are being told lies about contraception and birth control, so they abstain….abstain from using contraception that is. I am not saying that poor people are not smart. I am very poor, and very smart. I am saying that there is little chance of continuing education for those in low income situations, especially if child-rearing is involved. This leads to a less educated population.
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Television Killed the American President
Now of course, we have the battle of Christmas ads in the Republican party. Rudy Giuliani and Santa vs. Mike Huckabee and Jesus. Who fucking cares? Rudy can't talk about anything more than 9/11, and even then he's stretching the truth, and Mike Huckabee is a fundamentalist facist masquerading as a patriotic christian who wants to change everything that is fundamentally American until only the name remains the same. But that's not what we SEE. And that's what really matters, isn't it? If all these debates happened on radio or in print, we could hear the truth or read between the lines, but TV allows us to turn off our brains and let people tell us what to think. And all that is apparently more important than actually leading this country. And don't think the Democrats are angels, either. When frontrunners like Hillary, Barack, and John Edwards are politicizing, campaigning, and coming up with their holiday ads, Chris Dodd (who, we're told by the TV people, has no chance of being president) is showing true leadership by actually doing his job and protecting Americans from a FISA bill that would allow retro-active immunity for telecom companies. But is this what we see on TV? Fuck no, unless you're an actual, intelligent American who reads the paper (or maybe watches Countdown). Or, maybe, you're like me and you're fed up with the crap that we're being force-fed from TV, and you get your news from the internet. God bless the internet, the only thing that could save our country from the depths of TV hell. But there's a catch there too, because the internet isn't regulated (thank god and cross your fingers) so you also have to be careful to screen what you're reading to make sure they've got their facts straight. Alot of political blogs are biased as well, so it's hard to find objective journalism in the blogosphere (but it's out there).
But it's so much better than TV, that multi-headed monster that allowed an Orwellian travesty like Fox News to dupe viewers into believing it was a "fair and balanced" "news organization". A number of sane people in this country have seen the light and cried "Bullshit!" on Fox News, but it's still too little, and 2 wars and thousands of American deaths too late. So let's leave Television to what it's good for, and what it was originally intended: Entertainment. And let's take the politics out of it before our love for Michael Bay symbolism destroys us all.