Where Do I Sign the "Fuck Cannes" Petition?

The media is in a self-righteous huff when trying to take down sleazy bishops who move pedophile priests with decade-old cases around.

But when its an entertainment figure like Roman Polanski, Cannes filmmakers circle the wagons to protect him and try to get his case dismissed because it was decades old. Of course, this further proves how useless filmmakers are. At least, even sleazy bishops preside over vast works of charity. And sleazy bishops can be confronted. No, its only these self-important filmmakers who are above moral indignation.

And where is the media in all this? Where the fire-breathing hatchet jobs, the thundering op-eds and the call for boycott of these preening auteurs? If the media were as consistent in their treatment of all who abet child abuse as they were in their Catholic scandal coverage, maybe I'd believe their scandal coverage more. As it stands, they'd try to get a doddery old priest tried and hanged, but these assholes would let Polanski walk in a heartbeat.

A thought on open-mindedness: the New Atheists tell a story of Man and claim that it is the only story. The Christian, on the other hand, claims that his story of Man is not the only one. It is merely the greatest one.

More Street Fighter

Apparently, the resurrected video game series has been getting a lot of fan love.

Here is Street Fighter: Beginning's End:


And here's Street Fighter Legacy:


Both have surprisingly good production values, especially Legacy. But I think Beginning's End has better fighting.

Overall, quite amazing. 

Psyching Myself Up

For the next six years of misrule by the country's most glorified mama's boy man-child.

We're in for the shitter now.

Apparently, There is a Saint Ahmed

Saint Ahmed the Calligrapher of the Eastern Orthodox Church...

There are just some names you don't expect to see attached to the title "Saint"...mainly names from a non-Christian culture.

Saint Ahmed was probably as unexpected as someone who'd be Saint Mohammed, or Saint Vishramani, or, Saint Gaga.

If there are ever aliens out there, I'm waiting for St. Kal El. (And no, I do not mean Nicolas Cage's son.)

An Example of Stupid Political Correctness

Some American publisher decided to slap this warning / disclaimer label:

This book is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as it would if it were written today. Parents might wish to discuss with their children how views on race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and interpersonal relations have changed since this book was written before allowing them to read this classic work.

On a reprint copy of the United States Constitution.

Yeah, let's not discuss these ideas as ideas, but rather as a quaint manifestation of more backward times.

No wonder recent American presidents think the US Constitution is more of a suggestion than anything else.

I think that when Green Day decided to sing about the "American Idiot", they didn't realize who the real American idiots were. The rednecks aren't the problem. It's the elitists who fancy themselves book-read who are. After all, no redneck would dare do something as monumentally stupid as slapping a chronologically snobbish warning label on the US Constitution.

Dumb Politicians

Yesterday, I spent ten minutes inside a hot tricycle waiting for a politician's motorcade of paid supporters to pass by. I don't know where this Anthony Suva got his education, but I do hope somebody somewhere taught him to never piss his potential voters off two days before an election. After all, that gaggle of kool-Aid drinkers he paid to cheer him off won't carry the election for him.

Moron.