The New Road

W is Bat Man

Who knew? Bush is Batman, as well as the gay dudes from 300, Spider Man, Frodo from Lord Of The Rings, and that lion Narnia. Awesome!

There seems to me no question that the Batman film "The Dark Knight," currently breaking every box office record in history, is at some level a paean of praise to the fortitude and moral courage that has been shown by George W. Bush in this time of terror and war. Like W, Batman is vilified and despised for confronting terrorists in the only terms they understand. Like W, Batman sometimes has to push the boundaries of civil rights to deal with an emergency, certain that he will re-establish those boundaries when the emergency is past.

Wow. Yeah. I saw that right away.

This stuff comes out with ever superhero movie. Conservatives consider themselves the ultimate un-heralded hero. They are going to change the world from their keyboards. Right after they move out of Mom's basement.

Turns out the guy who wrote this editorial also writes thrillers. Check out this review of one of his books.

In the following chapters, Klavan wallows in demagoguery masquerading as satire, his extremely unlikable protagonist incapable of keeping an opinion to himself, most of which he addresses in an irritating spate of Capital Letters: The End of Civilization. As We Know It. ... I kept waiting for this novel to make sense, to justify finishing this book. Implausible events lead to an outrageous conclusion, followed by an anticlimactic happy ending. ...

What is it with conservatives and rants in CAPS anyway?

After watching Hellyboy II (which was great), Yvonne and I got to talking about why there are so many more comic book movies out nowadays. It used to be that you would get one a year. Now it's one or two a month. We had no answers. But maybe the answer is that the country has shifted conservative. The moral clarity (?) of comic books appeals to the conservative mindset. So we get more of that in film. Ugh.