Makes me think of the MGM credo above the roaring lion in the opening logo:  Ars Gratia Artis.  Art for Art's Sake.  Ahem...it was never quite true.  Maybe on occasion.  Perhaps someone can help me with the Latin for Art for the Dollar's Sake.  Maximize income by digitally trimming Brittney's tush.  But it's okay, they'll put out the Dakota Likes to Binge and Purge after-school special to remind girls not to care about such things, then it's back to Photoshop.  We talk about these things on my podcast The Pretentious Movie Snobs in case y'all have room for one more on your iPod.  Secretly right-wing movie talk, don't tell!

I love the podcasts, let's NOT let this go away.  What about lowering the price to say 99 cents a month, perhaps you can get a huge number of subscribers that way. Volume volume volume....

     Yep.  This is why anyone with an "R" next to their will have great difficulty getting elected President any time soon.  Three main reasons: Women, Blacks and Religion. All groups that Democrats have successfully steered away from the Republicans in large enough numbers to be a big big problem (often by simply scribbling in of a set of horns and a pointy tail on the Republican candidate).

     Young Republicans better start getting into politics as Democrats. Step 1: ease off the gas pedal on the religion a bit (last year religiosity in the US dropped from 73% to 60%, and people identifying as atheists went from 1 to 5%). That's a "trend" my friends. These new Democrats will be able say the same things Republicans say about color-blindness and fiscal and personal responsibility, and they won't be accused of wanting to put black people back into the fields or wanting to install cameras on the thighs of young women to keep track of visitors -- for as long as they have that "D" shield next to their name, that will keep them safe. So, young Republicans....it is indeed time for a change.  

     Fight From the Inside...

I wanna go on an NR cruise.  I'm too poor.  How about a contest where the first person to ask that there be a contest to win a spot on the NR cruise automatically wins the spot on the NR cruise?

I remember hearing the actor Scott Glenn, who played Jack Crawford in Silence of the Lambs, say that during his research with John Douglas, who the role of Crawford was based on, that he was against the death penalty going in to the film.  Crawford played him a tape of two scumbags who carried out a plan they had hatched when they had met in prison, in which they torture and kill two young women.  These two insects made an audio recording of the incident.  Scott Glenn did not get all the way through the tape.  He told Douglas to stop the tape and said, "all right, I'm now a death penalty supporter."  

Sure is easy to forgive somebody for killing someone else's daughter ain't it?

If any advocate for a particular death row inmate is successful in stopping his execution, I think it would only be appropriate that that person or organization should be held responsible if that inmate later goes on to kill a prison guard or other prisoner, or gets out and kills again.  Hey, NORMAN MAILER did it and paid no price.  Well, I hope he is now....

My gut says Romney.  Obama always polls higher than the votes he gets.  Even exit polls for him were higher than the actual count.  Polls are always a little off and they more often seem to err on the side of Dems.  Romney will get more than McCain got, and Obama will get fewer votes than last time. Romney is taller and slightly better looking.  The momentum seems to favor Romney.  All this taken together: Romney wins.

Thanks for getting that Star Wars quote exactly right by the way. 

I am expecting Bolivia to name the Sun as Public Enemy #1 since it will ultimately destroy every last thing in the entire solar system when it goes supernova in a few billion years. It's coming....oh, it's coming.

I look forward to more of Friedman's new articles for The Onion. Is this the first or did I miss some?

I was accidentally listening to Stephanie Miller for a few minutes this morning and she said that she's called things that are ten times worse than that every day by many right wing talk show hosts. I guess it's wishful thinking. I listen to all kinds of right wing radio and I never hear her name mentioned period. Poor thing. And by the way. LIAR.

If you watch his eyes, he is also blinking in the quadratic alphabet used by prisoners: "There is a car battery attached to my testicles, please help me."

I too wish I was coming of age these days because it seems as though women have so lowered their standards that even unemployed comic book geeks are now getting some. I just hope I get another go-round in another life before they come to their senses. Something tells me that as long as the public school system keeps working its magic, I will have that shot.

Say it ain't so, Joe! The end of Blazing Saddles alone is enough to warrant the designation of this hallowed ground as a national monument. All right, if this is to happen, I say we pull a Howard Roark and blow the place up before they can get their grubby hands on it. The Mission Impossible music is fading up as I begin to smear on the black face paint. C4, check, blasting caps, check, iPhone (iDon't go anywhere without that) check. Wait, this just in, Canters is closing in June and they're putting up a Quizno's.... Aaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

The God of the Bible sure seems to WANT people to believe in him. He's constantly telling people he's here -- sending floods and destroying cities (on time as predicted I might add), and even Jesus' apostles did not believe who he was until he showed them some miracles. Why be coy now?

For my part: Their claim is that the planet is indeed warming AND it will cause calamity AND we are causing it AND politicians can fix it if they only have a budget big enough to break the bank of every country in the world. All of these things need to be true and too many respectable experts are at odds with one or all of them. If the planet had never experienced global cooling or warming long before humans existed that at least would be one thing on their side....but they can't even say THAT.