Now, granted, Hollywood exists in a moral vacuum. That doesn’t mean I have to support it. What happened to the good old days when actors stood up for what was right? I recently heard a story about John Wayne and Robert Ryan.  Ryan was a committed leftist back when most of Hollywood was conservative.  And this is during the days of the HUAC hearings. 

Well, Ryan went on the radio and made a big speech challenging HUAC for their activities. It was pretty hot stuff.  So, he drives home a little worried and there in his driveway is John Wayne holding a rifle.  The Duke comes over and says he heard the speech on the radio and that he figured Ryan could use a little help to make sure he got in his house safe.  You know that old line about “I may not agree with what you say, but I’ll fight for your right to say it:”  CLEAR SHINING EXAMPLE!

But I guess I missed that part of the constitution that gave people the right to commit statutory rape on 13 year olds.  Polanski’s no hero and you don’t see me sending checks to all the local sex offenders you can check out online.  I’ll miss what looks like some cool fights, but I’ll feel good about it.

“Stop ******** Supporting Molesters in Hollywood”
Keep it up Hollywood…

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      There are drawbacks, to be sure.  A woman could be fresh from a break-up and exaggerate a guy’s faults.  Or someone could maliciously rate someone poorly as a prank.  But if it helps to reduce the amount of destructive relationships and the consequences of them, it will be worth it.

      One thing that is pissing me off though is that in the messageboard section for men, there are a lot of guys who seem to think this is some kind of dating site, the prime offender being someone who’s looking for abused women in particular.  Just because a woman has been shorted by a guy in the past does not mean she wants to have it happen again.  And appealing that you’ve been in an abusive relationship and are only looking for someone who can relate smacks of so much B.S.  So if your idea of a good time is beating or cheating, just go out now and get your balls surgically removed because it’ll help out the gene pool for the rest of us and besides, you sure as shit aren’t a real man.

1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day

 2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy  a new car.

 3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.

 4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.

 5. Macintosh — would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive — but would run on only five percent of the roads.

 6. The oil, water temperature, and the alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single “This Car Has Performed an Illegal Operation” warning light.

 7. The airbag system would ask “Are you sure?” before deploying.

 8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.

 9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.

 10. You’d have to press the “Start” button to turn the engine off.

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I’m not even going to go into the whole hate crime bill.  See point made above. Okay, on to what started this whole post in the first place.  A while back, I started a library of classics to read to my kids at bedtime when I finally have kids.  I was looking into the Uncle Remus stories to see how they stacked up as appropriate for children.  So, I pick up the copy at Borders to scan through, and after about 20 pages, I realize I’m not reading the Joel Chandler Harris originals.  I check out the foreword in which the author/abridger just prates on about cleaning up the stories so that they can be enjoyed by a modern audience without worrying about racist language, yada yada yada.  It pissed me off. 
I mean, if they’re going to clean it up and fix up the language, why don’t they also use complete sentences?  The format isn’t dialogue like the originals, but they still have sentences like “Tar Baby don’t say nothing.”  That’s right, that’s the actual sentence used, not a fragment made by me.  And why do they still call him BRER Rabbit?  Don’t they know Brer was how Harris heard Brother?  The originals are a remarkable ethnographic example of regional dialogue.  Not just Southern, but Caribbean also.  Do they really think that people are stupid enough not to realize that the stories arent’ how black people speak today?  The impression I got from the new edition is that no matter how educated or upstanding the person is, he’s still inferior. 

What’s up with that? 
 I can’t go on.  I’m too upset.

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    First off, the assumption that this is a liberal community is far from correct.  Sure,there is a university which many people strictly label as a haven of leftist politics (I didn’t see that when I was there.I saw a wide variety of opinions.Some people were willing to listen to opposing viewpoints, others weren’t) and a good number of theHollywood community could add to that belief.  However, the sheer amount of money floating around these parts indicates those with the money might be more likely to vote conservative.That is certainly how my former boss felt since he wanted to keep as much of the $100,000 he made each year as a veterinarian.

    Now, I’m not really sure which issue in particular might have this guy pissed off at Bush, but let’s assume it is the war since that is always a hot topic.  I’m not sure if the display is still going on, but for a long time every weekend for the past few years, there was a protest of the war by a guy who just put up crosses on the beach for everyU.S. soldier killed in the war on terror.  And there was also a lot of controversy about it from local families of soldiers who felt that this was an insult to their relatives who had died overseas to be used in such a way.  Let’s not forget how popular fleet week is around here either.  So, there is no major consensus on the war here.

    On to the part that really got me mad, lumping all Texans into one group.  Texas is a HUGE state.  To think that there is only one type of person in the entire population shows just how closed minded one is.  We’re not all cowboys or shitkickers.  Not all of us consider football the greatest thing on God’s green
earth.  Hell, we don’t all even have the same accent.  And we don’t all agree on Bush.

So listen up leftists.  If you want to march in lockstep to what the image of Berkeley used to be, fine.  But remember, it’s just an image.  This country was founded on the basis of a free-thinking people who were
open to take in all viewpoints in thoughtful discussion before making decisions and that’s not going to change anytime soon if I have anything to do with it.

Consider this blog the last holdout for exchange of opinions like the salons of old France.

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