Politics

How does Hollywood (not known for its belief in American exceptionalism) bring Captain America to the big screen in a way that isn't so much about America, but really about everyone. Director Joe Johnston was quoted by the LA Times recently:

Perhaps you've heard of the plan to build a mosque within one block of Ground Zero? I wasn't sure how I felt about it at first. On the one hand, yes, this is a free country and we should be tolerant (there's exactly zero chance that you would be able to build a cathedral in Riyadh) but I finally decided it was in bad taste.

An Indianapolis parish decided to create a 'teachable moment' by staging an altercation between two black men while an unwitting white police sargeant tried to break up the fight. The sargeant was injured during the 'teachable moment'.

According to the report,

The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) has recently called for the Tea Party Movement to renounce racist elements of their movement, in a move obviously designed to make the grassroots, very loosely organized movement appear racist.

Yesterday, Andrew Breitbart at BigGovernment.com posted video of one Shirley Sherrod, USDA Georgia Director of Rural Development, speaking at the NAACP Freedom Fund dinner in Georgia. She's a past recipient of an NAACP award, and her speech is rambling, stupid and overtly racist. 

So I don't normally write a blog about other issues anymore because mostly been focusing on writing movie reviews and trying to get better at them, but this has been on my mind since the last time I went to Wal-Mart.

I live in a small town where Wal-Mart dominates everything and I do not go there often, but one day I decided instead of driving 15 miles to the bookstore in High Point, NC, I would just go to Wal- Mart to visit their book section and check out their selection. I was searching for something specific and if they didn't have it I could always order it from Amazon.

What I saw there puzzled me.

 Here we go again.

Supermodel Claudia Schiffer is in deep racist waters over a photograph that depicts her as a black woman, complete with an afro wig, and dark foundation. The photos were taken by Karl Lagerfeld back in 2007 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of a fashion magazine.

Predictably, some black people are in full freakout mode.

Follow the jump to see the oh!-fensive image for yourself.

In keeping with the apocalyptic theme from my last post, here's some interesting news:

Douglas Hughes, darkhorse candidate for governor in California has declared on his website that, if elected, he would propose a law giving convicted pedophiles the option of either leaving the state forever, remaining in jail for life, or being exiled to an island off the coast of California.

The Fallout series of video games are known for mixing apocalyptic visions of the future with a dash of humor. In all of the games in the series the player assumes the identity of the 'vault dweller' -- an ordinary person who survived a nuclear holocaust by growing up in an underground shelter. In the games the vaults were created by a company called 'Vault-Tec' and their chirpy advertisements can be found littered throughout the Fallout games.

Now there's really a company that does what 'Vault-Tec' did in the games!