The answer, of course, is that our nation's most precious citizens couldn't reach their full potential until now because they were oppressed by the evil Bush administration. Who has time to smile at your neighbors and be a great parent and find a cure for Alzheimer's and whatnot when you're looking out for unmarked black helicopters full of jackbooted commandoes scouring the neighborhood for dissidents?
As usual, Zo's right on point. Have you ever spent time around children? I did, before the court order. When a little kid doesn't get what he wants, the adult who has thwarted his will is, to borrow a phrase, the Worst Person in the World. But the second that kid gets what he wants, everything is suddenly wonderful. It's like for the last 8 years, Bush was the mean babysitter who didn't let Ashton Kutcher and Ashley Judd eat ice cream for dinner and stay up past their bedtime. But now they've got a new babysitter and he's so cool and he's promising all sorts of amazing things and oh isn't everything just totally super awesome?
It's been said that Hollywood is just high school with money. Obviously, whoever coined that phrase was spotting them 9-10 grades.
Anyhow. I second Zo's pledge not to see anything with Ashton Kutcher or Demi Moore in it. Not that there was any danger of that anyway. Matt Damon? That one's tougher. He's a jerk who's not even half as smart as he thinks he is, but he's made some good movies. Well, I couldn't sit all the way through Gerry, so at least that's something.
Posted by Jim Treacher at January 28, 2009 12:30 PM