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This Just In: Warmists with Frostbite
The ever-brilliant Mr. Moeller writes an adroit and trenchant message for Lenin’s Birthday Earth Day. This just amused me to no end:
I myself plan to demonstrate my regard for the green lifestyle in the usual fashion: by eating a Big Mac in my car with the air conditioner on.
And now, some Earth Day reading:
–An activist planned to travel unassisted to the North Pole to demonstrate the dangers of warming temperatures and vanishing Arctic ice. He promptly developed frostbite and had to be rescued. The best part? He wasn’t the first activist to have to turn back due to cold temperatures on one of these little awareness-raising trips.
–The coordinator of the original Earth Day decries the "holiday’s" growing commercialism:
“This ridiculous perverted marketing has cheapened the concept of what is really green,” said Denis Hayes, who was national coordinator of the first Earth Day and is returning to organize this year’s activities in Washington. “It is tragic.”
If by "tragic" he means "bloody hilarious", then yes. Perhaps the marketers will be visited by the Ghosts of Earth Days Past, Present, and Future, who will teach the true spirit of Earth Day:
Joyless secular Puritanism? Self-righteous nagging? Meaningless feel-good bromides? Neglecting personal hygiene because it’s good for the environment?
Now that would make for a fun Earth Day card.
Go to the Jonathan Moeller website and leave an Earth Day message if you liked this entry. Or, if you just like the threestoogesesque irony of a Warmist false-alarm-ringer getting frostbite, one after another after a fourth.
Planned Parenthood in China
From the pen of Mark Shea China: Planned Parenthood
My comment: “Murder, Inc.” is Mark Shea’s (apt) nickname for Planned Parenthood.
Those who know my recent adventures know why I have a particular love and affection for the Chinese people, and therefore an icy hatred for that gangland mob of satanic thugs currently pretending to be the Chinese government.The adoration of Western intellectuals for any regime, so long as it kills without mercy and opposes the Church, is both puzzling, awe-inspiring, and terrifying to behold, like watching a man strap dynamite to his body. Can a man really be that stupid that he thinks he can wear dynamite without harm? Can a man really be that evil that he would be willing to die in flaming agony just to kill some innocent bystanders? Neither the theory seems satisfactory.
Nothing natural explains the infatuation of the Western Intellectual to iron-shod brutality, sexual perversion, mass-death, utter dishonesty, mass-starvation, and the other horrors that fill their daydreams.
Who Watches the WATCHMEN? I did.
SPOILER ALERT. Many, many spoilers below. I discuss the surprise ending and several plot twists.
CHILDREN ALERT. Do not take any children to see this film. It is not a superhero movie. It is an antisuperhero movie. It is deliberately brutal, gross and bloody where comic books would use sanitized comic-booky violence. It is deliberately lewd where comic books would be sweet and romantic. It is ironic and unheroic and dark and nasty where comic books would be more realistic. Not for kids.
I saw this movie the opening weekend, and I wanted to write a review. My only difficulty is that, for once, I do not have a strong opinion. I usually have a strong opinion about everything, but not this. The attractive things about the movie did not attract me that strongly. The repulsive things did not repel me that much, since I am mostly desensitized to movie gore. My response to the film was lukewarm.
The oddest thing that happened when I saw this film is that I suddenly realized that I was no longer a fan of Alan Moore’s WATCHMEN. I had been a fan for years.
In this, the movie is unique. I do not think I have ever seen a film adaptation that persuaded me to admire the source material less. This particular emperor has no clothes, and his blue penis is showing (more on this later). I walked out of the theater trying to remember what it was I had once liked and enjoyed in this unrelentingly bleak, nihilistic, dark, morbid, cynical and overcomplicated world of Alan Moore’s imagination.
The movie, on a certain level, is well done, and many scenes are visually splendid. The fight scenes are well choreographed and have a stylish violence to them. Other scenes are disgustingly bloody or laughably lewd, however. The plot hangs together without any glaring plotholes, and as a detective story, it reveals the central murder mystery in a satisfactory fashion.
Let me summarize the film, and then talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly.
