Saturday, February 19, 2005

So Why Help Pay Their Bills?

I don't go to movies much. It's hard to find one nowadays that doesn't just completely suck, I think.

But there's the reason I don't go to pro sports events, too -- prices are far too high for what you get, and the performers are paid ridiculously just for fooling around! Sorry, my cash is for more important things, like beer and bicycle stuff.

Just as with my point months ago about universities, if people don't like the politics of an institution, why do they give it money? The lockstep-left-wing "institutions of higher learning" survive on alumni donations. Why fork over the cash to support the self-important and childish worldview of the typical socialist college prof?

Same with Hollywood. As this Fox News report says, the politics of movies is equally one-sided as in our universities. So surely your money can go to more worthwhile causes, like purchasing firearms.

And why provide a paycheck for the shrieking anti-American actors of today? If the actor Sean Penn, or the actress Leo DiCaprio, want to belittle the US, that's their right as Americans -- more power to 'em. But you're the one responsible for the fact that they're doing it from hillside mansions in Malibu, with an endless string of hotties on their arms. Those two should be delivering pizza and dating heifers.

Go here to read about the real heroes of Hollywood -- people who could not only act, but could also put their wealth-accumulating aside and take up arms to defend freedom. Their kind, like the elves at the end of Lord of the Rings, have passed from this land.