Belgravia Dispatch makes a powerful argument. I’ll respond in detail soon. I should say that, despite the assertions of others to the contrary, I haven’t endorsed Kerry – and the fact that I haven’t, after my dismay at the staggering mis-steps of this administration, is an indication of how troubling I find his record in foreign policy. I take all Greg’s points in this regard.
TEAM AMERICA – FUCK YEAH: Parker and Stone are now indisputably the comic geniuses of their generation. The point of the movie is not nihilism – it’s sanity. Sanity against the moronic ra-ra pro-Americanism of many in the Bush camp, who seem blind to any empirical evidence, prudence, or skepticism in their attempt to protect us from Jihadist terror; and sanity against the moronic Sontagian left that fails to see any danger in the first place (except that from president Bush, of course). I doubt if Alec Baldwyn, or Arec Bardwyn as Kim Jong Il calls him, will ever recover from this brilliant skewering. Or the dumb-as-a-post Matt Damon. Or Hans Brix. The scene between the Swedish do-gooder and the little NoKo nutjob should be mandatory in every introductory class for international relations. I nearly bust a gut in the movie theater, to the consternation of the hairy one and a couple of companions. But then I’m a sucker for “r” and “l” jokes and I was brought up on “Thunderbirds.” The song, “Everyone has AIDS,” deserves to win an Oscar. And I say that as someone just a couple hundred T-cells away from AIDS. Fuck yeah.
MORE INCOMPETENCE: The evidence of how the administration has screwed up the management of the war in Iraq continues to mount.
The Dish 