Scrappy Conservatives

The following is from a Catholic League press release that speaks for itself.
http://www.catholicleague.org/07press_releases/quarter_3/070801_the_ten.htm
“The Ten” is billed as an irreverent comedy (rated “R” for crudeness) that ridicules the Ten Commandments; it opens on August 3 in select theaters. Here is what film critics are saying about it:

• "Only Christians with a very liberal sense of humor are likely to enjoy 'The Ten.' Even lay viewers will need to be tolerant of gags as envelope-pushing as anything in 'Borat.'" [Variety]


• "[Gretchen] Mol stars as a 35-year-old virgin who gets deflowered---in lusty romance novel fashion on a trip to Mexico. Her hunky lover boy’s name? Jesus Christ." [philly.com]


• "The Ten is, I guess, sacrilegious in the strictest sense of the term...." [slantmagazine.com]


• "The Ten is cohesive in the irreverence of its scenarios (in my favorite, Jesus Christ—Justin Theroux as a disheveled, overly hirsute carpenter....)” [notcoming.com]


• "Mol plays a mousy librarian...who travels alone to Mexico and has a wildly sexual fling with a local handyman named Jesus H. Christ (Justin Theroux in long hair and beard)." [AP]


• "They’re almost gleeful in their crudity; grinning ever-wider as they seem to ask the audience just who this bit of blasphemy is hurting." [eflimcritic.com]


• "Comprised of ten blasphemous vignettes, each inspired by one of the Biblical Commandments, [it] goes out of its way to be irreverent and hilarious...." [emanuellevy.com]


• "The Ten is as sacrilegious as 1979’s The Life of Brian...." [filmstew.com]


• "'The Ten’ is comprised of 10 blasphemous and hysterical stories that put the insanity back in Christianity.” [Roger Ebert]


• "(By the way, I did mention that conservative Christians may find this film offensive?)” [independentcritics.com]

Catholic League president Bill Donohue had this to say: "If Hollywood were to substitute Muhammad for Jesus, it is a sure bet that many of these same critics wouldn’t find the humor in it. Moreover, we'd all be watching the fallout that such a movie would engender on the evening news." I couldn't agree more. What do you think?

Labels: insanity, religion

Diane points to a really informative article about declining newspaper circulation. Bad news for those in the old time news industrial complex.

This should be good news to Sheryl Crow:

Crow, 45, writes, 'Although my ideas are in the earliest stages of development, they are, in my mind, worth investigating.

'I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting.'

She writes, 'Now, I don't want to rob any law-abiding American of his or her God-given rights, but I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where two to three could be required.'

She should be ecstatic. Do the math, geometry geniuses! My rough estimate is that one newpaper has got to be equal to tens of thousands of TP squares. Even if only one daily is delivered to a family of, say, 12 people -- and be honest, how many people are there with 10 kids who have time to read a paper -- the pulp consumption doesn't even come close. Even when everyone in aforesaid family has got the runs.

But seriously. My guess is that Sheryl will be eating crow for these comments for quite some time, maybe for the rest of her life. And to think that this comes from the rock star who once had a hit which preached "I'm gonna tell everyone to lighten up."

Labels: Democrat Party, eating crow, humor, insanity

Have a laugh. Highlights of this PC Bible:

• The Organic Garden of Eden
• Pharaoh Has Two Mummies
• What Happens in Sodom and Gomorrah Stays in Sodom and Gomorrah
• Noah Builds Ark to Survive Global Warming
• Jonah Saves the Whale
• David Appeases Goliath
• The Bilingual Writing on the Wall
• The Tower of Babel & The Controlled Demolition Theory
• Uncle Samson & The NY Times Reporter Delilah
• Judas The ACLU Lawyer
• Government Program Feeds The Multitudes with Five "Whole Grain" Loaves And Two Non-Endangered Fishes

I left out a particularly gross one re: the Holy Family, a little bit over the line, I think. But overall, this was very well done; here are some more revisions, with my favorite bolded:

Exactly half of the characters are women (50% of the kings are now queens). Solomon is Shirley. Very few of the characters are Jews. Some of them are mentally retarded; the rest are progressive minorities, with the ever growing Hispanic representation and a vocal Muslim voting bloc, as well as a gay, lesbian, and transgender alliance, mirroring life itself.

Labels: humor, insanity, political correctness