Balance

By Lex

Posted on April 21, 2006

This is the sort of thing that’s going to happen when you let a conservative columnist write for the LA Times (I can almost read the anguished letters to the editor now):

Consider the trailer for “An Inconvenient Truth,” Davis Guggenheim’s documentary about (Al) Gore’s green crusade. The movie’s poster shows penguins walking across a desert. The trailer says, “If you love your planet … if you love your children … you have to see this movie.”

So you see: The producers – uniquely, for Hollywood types – don’t really care that much about turning a dime on the movie. They care about your children. Is all. Those of you who don’t love your planet or your children are of course free to take a pass. You bastards.

But – WAIT FOR THE IRONY!

Credo

"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me."

— John Paul Jones

"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature"

— George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."

— Edmund Burke

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— Leonidas

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— Neptunus Lex