Month: March 2006

George Clooney, in his acceptance speech upon receiving Best Supporting Actor for his role in “Syriana,” referred to the latest conservative talking point — that the films being honored at the Oscars were just another example of how Hollywood was out of touch with ‘Mainstream America.’ He said:

“We are a little bit out of touch in Hollywood every once in a while.

We were the ones who talked about AIDS when it was being whispered. We talked about Civil Rights when it wasn’t really popular. This Academy gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939, when Black people were forced to sit in the back. I’m proud to be part of this Academy. I’m proud to be part of this community.

I’m proud to be out of touch.”

Preach, brother.

One of the things that kills me is that conservatives will bitch about “Hollyweird” and how it’s pushing a “liberal agenda”, etc……..but yet those same conservatives still line up and go see the latest brain-dead action-packed blockbuster crap that Hollywood produces….even though it’s produced by those damned liberals.

They criticize and rant and froth at the mouth…..but they still participate and consume.

Yet another example of conservative hypocrisy.

From the minds that brought you “The Chronic-WHAT?-cles of Narnia”:

Natalie Portman.

I’m strangely turned on. :)

EDIT: The link is no longer valid. The video is now available via NBC.

Domino’s Pizza founder Thomas S. Monaghan is bankrolling construction of a new town in Florida that will be governed according to strict Roman Catholic strictures. He calls his efforts “God’s will.”

The town, Ave Maria, would feature private ownership of homes, but all commercial space controlled by Monaghan and his partner — so stores will not sell pornographic magazines, pharmacies will not carry condoms or birth control pills, and cable television will have no X-rated channels.

At the groundbreaking of construction on the town, Governor Jeb “Your Future President” Bush lauded the development as “a new kind of town where faith and freedom will merge to create a community of like-minded citizens.”

Gotta love how CNN headlines the story, with a simple “New Florida town would restrict abortion.” Um, NO, fuckheads….it would restrict EVERYTHING according to religious doctrine.

Can’t say that, of course….if CNN drew attention to that, after all, people might start realizing that calling these people the American Taliban *isn’t* really that far-fetched. This town, the effort underway to turn South Carolina into a “Christian Homeland”…..this is what these people actually want. They are exactly like the Taliban. The rest of us had better wake the fuck up…..our disbelief at how “far-fetched” this stuff appears is exactly what allows them to get it done. While we sit back with our comfortable intellectualism and say “but that’s ridiculous….there’s no way….”, they rally their forces, work them into an ecstatic furor, and DO IT.

They’re not kidding when they talk about a “Culture War”, people. When do we actually start taking it seriously, and fight?