August 27, 2007

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Globalization Strikes Again

Wizbang's Cassy Fiano flags news that the theatrical G.I. Joe is going to be a lot different that the cartoon version: "G.I. Joe is now a Brussels-based outfit that stands for Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity, an international co-ed force of operatives who use hi-tech equipment to battle Cobra, an evil organization headed by a double-crossing Scottish arms dealer. The property is closer in tone to X-Men and James Bond than a war film." Fiano comments:

Of all things to turn into a liberal fantasy, why did they have to choose G.I. Joe? From what it sounds like, they are taking everything that was great about it, and the Real American Hero line, and ruining it. I mean, this is worse than making G.I. Joe an "eco-warrior" in the early 90s. It is a sad indication of where our country could be headed when making a patriotic movie featuring a Real American Hero is considered a tough sell, and shelved so easily.

LEST WE FORGET: Spartan Pride

The Plank's Jonathan Chait points us to a not-for-family-publication comment responding to Radar Online's ranking Michigan State as the worst school in the Big Ten. A cleaned up version of the Spartan defense includes:

Let me just say to whatever [expletive] pansy wrote this review that he has no [expletive] idea what he is talking about. Drugs, alcohol, sex, and violence, in a beautiful campus setting, makes for pretty damn good education in my book. I am sorry that we aren't some liberal art school where the biggest problems facing male students is how to come out to our roommate and convince him to let us go down on him. Or maybe some west coast, hippie, save the [expletive] whales, follow phish, do-gooders that want to complain about this country all day instead of doing something about it. ... Furthermore the arrest statistics should take into effect the size of MSU (45,000 students), but that doesn't matter. Know why? Spartans like to get arrested!!! It is a rite of passage! The 3rd best Halloween party at MSU every year is in the East Lansing Jail.

Posted by Conn Carroll at August 27, 2007 12:49 PM