Mo’ Borat

Still, kinda interesting when you think about it.

Borat, a.k.a. Sacha Baron Cohen, makes a film in which he says that all . . . ALL . . . Americans are racist, blood-thirsty, warmongering, anti-Semitic, materialistic, bigoted, brain-dead, Neo-Nazis with big bombs and small wing-wangs . . .

And America . . .

Responds by making his movie number one at the box office.

Whoa.

What’s the line by Yakov Smirnoff? “What a country.”

Borat the Bully

So, am I the only person on the planet who thinks that the movie Borat is a wretched excuse for entertainment and that Sacha Baron Cohen, the alleged comedian who plays the title role, is a bully and a moralizing, anti-American prig who should suffer extreme civil penalties for invasion of privacy?

Uh . . . anyone . . . out there?

Maybe it’s just me.

Sigh.

Election

So we woke up this a.m. to discover that the Democrats had swept the House, made big gains in the Senate, and dominated many local elections. In fact, the word “landslide” comes to mind.

That’s a LOT of votes. And most of ‘em, at least, even got recorded. Hanging chads, “lost” ballots, intimidation of voters by neocon bully-boys, fraudulent recounts . . . all (mostly) missing from the scene.

Gosh. Has anybody checked? I mean, Karl Rove is all right, isn’t he? Not sick or anything?