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Saturday, May 01, 2010

Yes, 3-D Sucks

Besides making me want to hurl about 30 minutes in to the film, there are other reasons why 3-D sucks.

3-D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension. Hollywood's current crazy stampede toward it is suicidal. It adds nothing essential to the moviegoing experience. For some, it is an annoying distraction. For others, it creates nausea and headaches. It is driven largely to sell expensive projection equipment and add a $5 to $7.50 surcharge on already expensive movie tickets.

Combined with a film as horrid as Avatar, and it teeters dangerously close to a capital offense.

Illegal Alien Nation …

Because so many people lack the intellectual capacity, or, perhaps intellectual honesty, to get it. Peggy Noonan touches on this.

Now, Arizona has drawn a line in the sand just north of the border:

But the larger point is that Arizona is moving forward because the government in Washington has completely abdicated its responsibility. For 10 years—at least—through two administrations, Washington deliberately did nothing to ease the crisis on the borders because politicians calculated that an air of mounting crisis would spur mounting support for what Washington thought was appropriate reform—i.e., reform that would help the Democratic and Republican parties.

Again, I seriously believe that those on the wrong side of this argument are either intellectually incapable of getting it; trapped behind some absurd feel-good idealistic world view, or they are being intellectually dishonest. Of course the lack of intellectual honesty falls mostly upon politicians hoping to leverage an open border policy to their advantage as exemplified in the above quote.

As far as an example of intellectual inadequacy, one need look no further than Britain’s Gordon Brown:

On the campaign trail this week, he was famously questioned by a party voter about his stand on immigration. He gave her the verbal runaround, all boilerplate and shrugs, and later complained to an aide, on an open mic, that he’d been forced into conversation with that “bigoted woman.”

He really thought she was a bigot. Because she asked about immigration. Which is, to him, a sign of at least latent racism.

Believe me, that sort of ridiculous logic is rampant here in the USA.

It is a fact that unchecked, illegal immigration cannot continue in to this country without grave consequences. It’s really as simple as that, and goes no further than that, especially in to the realm of “race”.