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Whacking Archive 1-11-02 The Incredible Shrinking Brain of Ann Coulter While she may be good at getting pious lefties into fits of insane rage, I've generally found Coulter to be a Michael Moore of the right: a self-absorbed loudmouth dingbat with a great talent for witty invective and none whatsoever for coherent thought patterns. Do we really want people like this on our side? In her recent stupidity - DNA evidence exonerates Hitler! - she opens up in full-bluster mode about folks who have the nerve to exonerate death-penalty inmates thru the use of DNA evidence. Ann seems very upset by the prospect of not putting the innocent to death, and howls about "phony new evidence" and "lies" used by defence lawyers. Serious accusations indeed, and worthy of further investigation. A David Horowitz or William F. Buckley could make a decent go of it, but it's a tad beyond Coulter's meagre talents. Sadly (but not surprisingly) Coulter provides no analysis or evidence, and then goes on to describe a series of rape cases that have nothing to do with the use of DNA in death penalty cases. Matter of fact, the avoids the topic for the rest of the article, beyond this kindergarten logic: - rapists bad Now that's what you call thinking with your arse. In fact, it's pretty close to classic Pilger/Chomsky thinking...... 1- start with emotive
accusation What's Ann really given us? - rapists are evil
- wow, she's in revelatory form here folks Ann should leave conservatve
argument to people capable of making it, and go audition for the tile-turning
role on Wheel of Fortune. It's both within her intellectual capacity
and quieter for the rest of us. For reasons best explained by their crack dealers, the producers of Channel 10's Meet The Press have invited failed ex-PM and Indonesian junta cuddle-buddy Paul Keating to be their "special guest". Paul's obviously having a bout of Malcolm Fraser syndrome: a particularly awful affliction which affects former Prime Ministers and makes them do lots of media appearances in a desperate attempt to stay relevant. Perhaps he has a new
book of wisdoms to promote, like maybe "how to fuck up an economy
in 10 easy lessons" or "how to cuddle up to brutal genocidal
bastards in Jakarta", or most probably "how to lose an
election by the biggest margin in history and pretend it's not your fault"
A new addition to
the "dickheads galore" link section: a big thanks to reader
David for pointing out this gem of leftist lunacy: the Green
Left Weekly, this week featuring a
cover story by our old friend and Howard's lethal hypocrisy is the familiar Pilger grab bag of lies, paranoia, irrelevant history and contradictory high-n-mighty principles. Pilger whinges eternally about..... - 600,000 Iraqi deaths caused by "western sanctions": You know, the same sanctions that give Saddam enough money to build lots of presidential palaces and leave nothing over for medicine or food. - He quotes "research" which says 2.5 million civilians killed by western sponsored "state terror". Assuming this figure is correct (and we know Pilger has problems with numbers, particularly Marc Herold's), doesn't this give the western powers a greater responsibility to clean up their own mess? Should we ignore Saddam and let him kill more civilians for the sake of consistency? - Previous collusion with the genocidal Indonesians over East Timor & Howard's racist hypocrisy: you know, how he made the decision to send in troops and save the Timorese. And isn't that what you've been demanding for 25 years, eh Pilgy? Naturally to Pilger and the rest of the Left, Fraser, Whitlam, Hawke and Keating - who brown-nosed this psychotic junta - were still the ones who are more enlightened about "Asia" than racist Johnny Howard. Lefties don't like right-wingers who solve problems, it's just not polite. The Pilger World:
solving a problem is always worse than causing it. Saving lives
is best done in moderation, for it distracts Pilger and his ilk from more
important tasks, like complaining about John Howard and The Americans.
Damian Penny makes
an interesting
observation.
Thingies No blogging tonight, I'm a tad busy cleaning the house for guests arriving tomorrow. For those of you who have sent me e-mails recently (all of them excellent and appreciated), I'll be replying to them in the next few days. In the meantime, please keep the e-mail and beer tips coming: tex {at} whackingday {dot} com I'll be updating The Great American Beer Quest tomorrow, thanks to the many excellent mails I've received on the subject.
If you ever need proof of how socialist thinkers are sorry, humourless nerds with no life, check out the movie reviews section of the World Socialist Website, written by a group of reviewers who really need to get laid. Where else would a film reviewer discuss Reaganism in a Mulholland Drive review? There doesn't actually seem to be much about the actual movies, but there's certainly an abundance of painful agonized waffling about the the socialist spirit of humanity, warped by evil corporate conspiracies, and glossed over by the evil cabal of capitalist hollywood filmmakers. There is much outrage at every instance of a movie refusing to show the USA as the most evil country on earth. The attitude pervails of a general hatred of anything resembling entertainment, which is of course capitalist, corrupt and blinds us from those important "intellectual" artistic works just waiting to bore everybody stupid but which are good for us. Needless to say, one reviewer goes into a frothing hissy-fit over Animal Farm. And the essay on Lord of The Rings has to be the dullest piece of gibbering po-faced misery I've read in the movie journalism universe. Oh, and for some unintentional
laughs, check out the last paragraph in the
review of The Siege. The Good Doctor has
surpassed himself here. (The permalink doesn't work so look for the
post titled "Tackling the greens")
Dave Sims at Clubbeaux
has a wonderful before
and after pictorial. George Will pummels
European geopolitical hypocrisy. Superb.
This is, quite simply the best essay I have read in a long time. You need to read the whole thing, but here's a teaser..
..check out Sasha
Castel's takedown of pious dweeb Richard Goldstein's inept criticism
of ex-leftie "neohawks".
Just completed the loathsome annual exercise of doing my tax return. Thankfully it only took 30 minutes. There is a sorta cute
irony in the fact that our tax returns are due on Halloween. Dale Amon at Samizdata
has an excellent
post on the Russian Hostage incident. Some quality
thoughts on racial double-standards over at Clubbeaux.
Damian Penny has a
truly
nauseating post.
Not that you'd know it from the official site:
No mention of idiotic, boring and farcical? No doubt this dull
event will still attract a huge crowd next time.
It's official: Gore Vidal is insane Yep, it's finally
happened. Vidal's gone
completely yo-yo. Apparently Dubya deliberately allowed the attacks
of 11/9/01 to occur. Even Kerry
Nettle hasn't said anything this stupid.
A new entry in our
Spleen section: reader Steve S. of California
has contributed this bollocking of recent statements
by novelist Phillip Roth re. America's national response the the events
of 11/9/01.
A few days back I
mentioned the http://islam.org.au
site (now featuring a laughable pop-up disclaimer) had removed their charming
essay on preserving the islamic identity in the west, where all non-muslims
were likened to sewer creatures. Well, thanks to reader Peter Q., I've
just found out the essay can be viewed here.
Got a brilliant e-mail from a first-year uni student in Perth. It requires no comment from me, so without further ado.......
Is anyone surprised?
Still, with students like this one, there's good reason to hope for the
future.
Leftie losers and the "still-can't-get-over-it" syndrome In this week's pathetic column, Sydney Morning Herald microbe Hugh Mackay still can't accept the fact that John Howard has won three elections in a row. The reasons for this of course are "luck", racism, intolerance, and blah blah blah..... Get a load of this howler...........
Oh I see. Howard only wins by playing to fear and intolerance, yet the most crushing defeat in Labor history had "almost nothing to do with Howard". Well, which is it? Is Mackay Australia's dumbest intellectual?
"Disgracefully undemocratic" = people voted for the wrong party. In the mind of the sulking anti-Howard weasel brigade, democracy only happens when Labor is elected. Any other result simply must be the result of trickery, right-wing conspiracies, racism and blah, blah. It could never ever be - gasp - voters choosing the coalition.
What happened was Paul Keating suffered the biggest-ever dose of electoral "fuck you, arrogant leftie twat" in Australian history, precisely because the Australian population didn't want the wonderful qualities Mackay masturbates over.
Emerging electoral success? They have three seats.
BWAHAHAHHAHAHA. Yeah, and the Khmer Rouge had some great policies on demography.
Well, either that
or - you know - the candidate sucked. Caught two more DVDs in my home theatre setup.....
Essentially, Hackman and his crew snatch a load of swiss gold from an airport, and whackiness ensues. Most of it consists of oh-so-cool crims spouting witty dialogue at each other. Plot twists galore. Sometimes I just wish Mamet would put more effort into telling an entertaining story and developing characters rather than trying to impress us with his oh-so-clever dialogue. The result is an flood of increasingly weird and irritating Mamet-english and robotic, tedious speech patterns, where every character seems to be trying to outdo the other in coming up with something obscure and cool to say. You just wish someone in the damn movie would answer a question with a yes or no or just shut the hell up and get on with it. The endless plot-twists as exposition gets tired after a while, and leaves you not caring that much about a story that could have been told so much better. Worth a look, but don't expect too much.
It succeeds on a number of levels. It's concise, well-paced, to-the-point and looks fabulous. Credit to the production team and cinematographers. Unusual too for a thriller to be set in such a confined space. Well executed original ideas, good actors, and top-notch suspense. It's David Fincher's best effort since his masterpiece Se7en. The Game was fun but ultimately shallow. Fight Club started brilliantly and descended into almost unwatchable crapola after the halfway point. He's back to just telling a good no-nonsense story with loads of tension. Next time though,
I'm hoping he drops the dark-n-gloomy moodiness and switches tone a little.
Five films now dude: it's time to turn the lights on or film in the daylight.
I've gotten lots of feedback from my American readers after my request for info on decent USA brews. It's rather telling that these patriotic folk all told me the same thing: there aren't any. Actually, that's a half-truth. The message seems to be: any american beer popular enough for me to have heard of it is undrinkable shite, but there are some worthy micro-brewery products worth seeking if I'm lucky enough to source any. Some names mentioned:
There also seemed to be a remarkable concensus regarding the geography of quality american microbrewing: The Pacific Northwest is apparently the jewel in the american beer crown. Philadelphia is a good beer city I hear, and last but not least, Colorado is apparently the ant's pants. James Morrow, Andrea Harris and The Dodge have posted their thoughts on the matter. To everyone who responded:
thank you. Hopefully I'll get around to answering each e-mail. In the
meantime folks, keep your thoughts rolling in, my American Beer Quest
is an ongoing effort: tex {at} whackingday {dot}
com Looking for older whackings? Wanna see my previous rants against lefty, commie, peacenick wankers, plus lots of fun stuff about motorcycles, music and movies?................ Click here for the full past whackings index |
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Street-circuit
racing for cars is usually monumentally tedious, but 
HEIST:
David Mamet's latest. Gene Hackman, Delroy Lindo, Danny DeVito in this
odd crime caper. Highly watchable, with some great moments, yet overall
curiously unsatisfying.
Divorcee
Jodie Foster and daughter move into a seriously expensive Manhattan mansion
with an inbuilt secure or "panic" room. Their first night in
the house, three thugs break in, looking for the loot which just happens
to be hidden in the guess where.
Delerium
Tremens (bwaa!! There's really a drink called this?)