IntenseDebate - ChronicPaine

13 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Hollywood’s Soviet S... · 1 reply · +5 points

With the faintest scintilla of encouragement, I would happily drop everything for the next six months to write a screenplay for D. Keith Mano's THE BRIDGE: a dystopian novel published in 1973 that absolutely NAILS the horrors of eco-extremism taken to its logical conclusions. And by "encouragement" I don't mean some producer holding out a check with a smile on his/her face... No, with my left ear to the rail and a finger plugging my right to keep out the ambience, a butterfly landing on the track six miles down would be all the encouragement I'd need. Sadly, I don't hear it.

13 years ago @ Big Government - Violent Left Fights fo... · 1 reply · +1 points

It occurred to me the other day that these bused-in SEIU protests at people's houses (most recently the Greg Baer incident in Montgomery County, Maryland) could be dry runs/wargaming for some future Krystallnacht-style mass home-invasion pogrom by the left. Grassroots Campaigns, Inc. has been accused of hiring young people for door-to-door issue advocacy, then creating "neighborhood maps" based on how residents respond; i.e. putting big red "x's" on all the conservative households. Could some umbrella group be compiling all this data for some future, possibly violent, use, given everything else we're learning--merging it with data on past political donations, memberships, subscriptions etc. to plan a massive politically "microtargeted" pogrom. Is this potentiality even on law enforcement's radar? Given that D.C. police actually escorted the SEIU buses to Greg Baer's home, and then Baer's local suburban Maryland police, fearing incitement, refused to intervene once the protesters were on his lawn, I think not.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - SHOCK! Rush Limbaugh E... · 2 replies · +2 points

Great thumbnails of the big players. Surely we need one for Mark Levin!

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Do The Warhol—Part 3... · 0 replies · +1 points

I think the secret is to simply create entertainment that respects and exalts the average American, or, in passe liberal parlance "the common man". By simply extolling common virtues in a present-day context, all the excesses of celebrity culture (and just about every liberal-chic cause) is made to look silly and trivial. Enough of this and the whole house of cards comes down. It's called "exposing reality."

Mike Judge's new animated series The Goode Family is a start, although politically speaking Judge takes a more direct approach by simply poking fun at liberal causes and the people who obsess over them. But the Goode's black neighbor and Ms. Goode's SUV-driving, meat-eating, football-loving, father provide counterpoint. Those characters are merely one-dimensional foils and don't even challenge the "Joe Sixpack" stereotype nurtured and sustained by liberals--yet even they manage to make the case for sanity when contrasted against The Goodes' not atypical environuttiness.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Asking the Spirit of R... · 0 replies · +1 points

Just make sure you don't drive your old SUV clunker to the dealership. The sales guys will see you coming a mile away. Wait until you hammer out your best deal, then bring up the $4,500 when you're sitting at the desk, right before the pen hits the paper.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Time for the Amero? · 0 replies · +4 points

Bigger is not better. Decentralization of power and opportunity is the answer--not the opposite.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Her Name Was Neda: A G... · 0 replies · +6 points

NO ONE is talking about material aid, MovieBob, so that is a strawman--but I get the sense that you are at least interested in doing the right thing here. To see why an unambiguous rhetorical statement of support from the U.S. President is not, as you cynically put it, a "meaningless 'end-of-a-Jerry-Bruckheimer-movie' declaration of macho feel-goodness," all you have to do is focus a tiny bit of that much remarked-upon liberal empathy from your full-to-bursting heart on the Teheran protesters in the street. Imagine for half a second that you are there with them, risking your life just by showing up, holding up a sign in English. See? That wasn't hard, was it?

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Governor Palin Accepts... · 0 replies · +7 points

Palin's right to move on from this, but I'm hoping the grassroots pressure on Letterman and CBS continues, if only to make it plain that conservatives are through taking partisan cheapshots like this from the left. Don Imus (no conservative, he) apologized for his offhand but crude on-air comment about the Rutgers Womens' Basketball team, and the zealots demanding his head on a platter only got louder.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Big Hollywood Exclusiv... · 0 replies · +1 points

Keith Lewis is potential gold for conservatives: a veritible archetype of the phony, smug, apish urban serpent who'd just as soon stick a knife in your gut as compliment your shoes--wearing the same unctuous pseudo-smile either way. It's odious back-bencher creeps like this who are the foot soldiers of the new fascism, and they must be held up to ridicule in the same way that nerds and rednecks were in decades past.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Jon David, A Pseudonym... · 0 replies · +2 points

I was scanning the comments looking for something that matched my sentiments, and this comes closest. I'd only add that "I won't apologize," in any context, is not a "warrior's challenge." It does work, however, as a spontaneous, emphatic statement from someone who feels trapped in a corner and believes, in that way that only trapped and wounded animals can, that a stronger, more defiant statement could very well be his last. Which probably pretty much sums up JD's true feelings on the matter.

IntenseDebate Comment System

Connect with ChronicPaine

People I'm following

ChronicPaine