Posted by
Paul Wamack on Tuesday, January 08, 2008 8:41:12 AM
I don't know about everyone else, but I am weary of all of the mean-spirited Bush bashing. I thought it would lighten up as time passed, but it hasn't. It's irrational. It offers nothing to the discourse. It's quite boring and tedious by this time. But that hasn't slowed down any of these seething people who blame everything on George Bush.
It's becoming a running joke in my house. The price of eggs is too high? That's George Bush's fault. Paycheck got messed up? That's George Bush's fault, too. Shootings downtown someplace? That surely would be George Bush's fault as well. We don't need to know how. We don't need to know why. That man is on a dark mission out in the night secretly resetting the price in the pumps at all the gas stations across the map. He probably has enlisted Santa to help him cover so much ground so quickly.
Recently, I went out to a website about the new Star Trek movie. I wanted to see what was going on with that, whatever teasers and tidbits the advance-promo folks wanted to throw to me. I was reading down the page ... and in the comments was more Bush Bashing! No joking! I don't know how or why George Bush has anything to do with this movie. I don't think he is part of the production crew, or that he auditioned for one of the acting roles. If there is a part in the script for an intergalactic megalomaniac, but I can think of some others that would be better suited for that role.
I just sighed and clicked off the website. I'm more weary of the Bush bashing than I am curious about the new Star Trek movie -- and that's pitiful. I expect all kinds of odd fantasy comments from Trekkies. I expect people to be wrapping themselves in aluminum foil and bleeping. I look forward to it. But this has no creative spark, no unbridled imagination. Maybe if the Bush bashing was in Klingon, perhaps that would have been better. Same tedious pap could have a new twist. But this same old tired material has no thought in it whatsoever -- creative or otherwise. Maybe George Bush has gone ahead, where no one has gone before, and is resetting the prices in the fuel pumps on the space stations. Yea, that would work.