Gallagher gets a tin pie plate. He opens a giant can of fruit cocktail and pours it in. He opens a can of some Asian vegetable — water chestnuts, maybe — and pours that in, too. “This is the China people and queers!!!” he screams and takes his sledgehammer to the thing with a fury that is no fun at all.
No fun at all, and no joke at all in using a sledgehammer against a representation of groups of people you don’t like. This is some dangerous stuff being done in the pursuit of comedy.
Posted: July 7, 2010 at 5:21 pm.
Keep in mind again, federal candidates, this was a war of Obama’s choosing. This is not something the United States had actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in. […] It was the president who was trying to be cute by half by flipping a script demonizing Iraq, while saying the battle really should be in Afghanistan. Well, if he’s such a student of history, has he not understood that you know that’s the one thing you don’t do, is engage in a land war in Afghanistan? All right, because everyone who has tried, over a thousand years of history, has failed. And there are reasons for that. There are other ways to engage in Afghanistan.
RNC Chair Michael Steele
And only slightly less well known is this: never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line!
(Also? The war in Afganistan started in 2001, when Obama was a state senator in Illinois.)
Posted: July 2, 2010 at 5:52 pm.
I’m sure there are even worse Sandler movies to come for future generations to view as sociological curiosities. In the present moment, though, in the theater during “Grown Ups,” I felt a deep and abiding sadness every time the audience laughed and the sounds of their chuckles turned into the ringing of the cash register, and all I thought was a sad, simple truth: This, America, is why we can’t have nice things.
Grown Ups (2010) - Critics’ Reviews - MSN Movies
Posted: June 25, 2010 at 5:18 pm.
The true price of oil…
© Mike Luckovich
Posted: June 20, 2010 at 6:49 pm.
Posted: April 24, 2010 at 11:24 am.
HOPE IS FADING FAST
Posted: November 24, 2009 at 1:04 pm.
Posted: November 20, 2009 at 5:47 pm.
It’s almost that time again: The one day of the year when women are allowed to express their true sexiness, and men are freed to dress like giant penis jokes. As Halloween approaches, costume manufacturers are struggling to produce new sexy/penis concepts to satisfy all the sexy/penis demands of sexy/penis-loving Americans. Sure, it’s refreshing to finally find an industry committed to producing low-quality merchandise meant to encourage women to be extremely sexy, and men to be sexually immature.
Posted: October 21, 2009 at 3:13 pm.
Al Franken proposes getting rid of the old “it’s OK if you get raped” clause in government contracts, but 30 Republicans object.
Posted: October 16, 2009 at 11:45 pm.
Wes Anderson. Tilda Swinton. David Lynch. All rape defenders. Heartbreaking.
Now someone needs to start a list of people in Hollywood who believe that being convicted of raping a child deserves incarceration.
Posted: September 29, 2009 at 1:20 pm.
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