The fact that fundamentalist Islam isn’t that old should make it a lot easier to knock it out of the culture, but we’re too politically correct to even talk about how to do so. Unfortunately, though, it is older now than Nazism was in 1945.
Category Archives: Popular Culture
How Do You Say “Realpolitik…”?
…in Klingon? Thoughts on the Hawking alien thesis.
The Slander Of The Samaritans
Oddball thoughts from Lileks. Yes, I’d never thought about it before, but he’s right — unless Samaritans are truly notoriously bad people, “good Samaritans” is sort of like “compassionate conservatives.”
More Earth Day Celebration
Andy Borowitz: “I’m not sure if a gigantic oil rig sinking was the best way to celebrate Earth Day.”
But they’d been planning it for months!
[Update a few minutes later]
On this Earth Day, thank Big Oil.
The Downfall Of The Thousand-Video Reich
First they came for Hitler. And of course, Hitler is understandably upset.
I Have Never Seen A Rambo Movie
Discuss.
[Update after reading comments]
I’ve never seen a Rocky movie, either. Make of it what you will.
You Don’t Know Che
We need more music videos like this one. (Probably needs high bandwidth to view.)
And Here I Thought It Already Was
Especially the most recent three. Star Wars as a comedy series.
Rewriting History
Apparently, Hollywood (and Abu Dhabi) are up to their old tricks again, demonizing and lying about the Bush administration, in a new fictional movie about the Plame affair. This is a consequence of the fact that so much Hollywood money comes from overseas, to make movies planned in advance to appeal to anti-American sensibilities. That’s one of the reasons there were so many troop-bashing and America-bashing movies about Iraq in the past few years, that bombed at the American box office.
It would be amusing to raise some money in America to do the real story, and see which does better with the audience.
Cereal Wars
I found Lileks’ Bleat more amusing than normal this morning. What an eye for cultural detail.