This essay simply confirms my initial opinion of Mr Moriarity's writing here at BH.

The man is nuts. I'm sorry. I tried really hard to settle on "quirky" but this one is just over the top nutso.

Moriarity is the type of conservative the Olberman's of the world see under their beds.

Conservatives could do a better job in this respect. Robert Spencer should be a household name in this country. But more than 8 years after 9/11 he is still almost unknown. Conservative blogs, websites, and radio hosts could do much to give people like Spencer the attention Islam deserves.

Why don't they? Because whether they like it or not, or whether they want to admit it or not, conservatives are simply too afraid of being politically incorrect. When it comes to accusations of racism conservatives are self editing. They care much too much what liberals will write about them.

Read any good conservative blog and you will see that they go out of their way to present the other side's arguments even before they are made. They anticipate what will be said. So they say it first. The problem with this practice is that it assumes the other side is reasonable when reading their own views. It doesn't work that way with liberals. That's why they hate being quoted.

I guess I don't know what a "redemptive moment" is. To me, the end of Shampoo is a you-reap-what-you-sow moment. George falls in love with a female version of himself. He is nothing more to her than any of the other women were to him.

I hated 28 Days Later. I had read so many great reviews that actually sitting through the movie was almost like an out-of-body experience. The story was actually pretty good, but its politics ruined it for me. There's really nothing worse than a good zombie movie with politics.

A deadly zombie virus sweeps England and who do the real bad guys turn out to be? The mad scientists who created the virus? No. The clueless animal rights activists who unleash the virus on the world? No. The real bad guys are 9 British soldiers who go postal because they haven't gotten laid in a month.

After watching it I looked it up on IMDb and discovered that it was filmed after 9/11 and that just added to my disgust for everyone who made the movie. When the military are the bad guys in a zombie movie you know there's not much hope for this world.

Sam Blaze
1987-August 16, 1999

He was my baby boy. I miss him still.

I, too, was completely moved by the ending of Tender Mercies. The entire movie is filled with such scenes, and I always thought that the people who found it boring, or slow, or that it lacked a plot, just never got it. I'm the only person I know who actually liked it. Hell, I loved it.

But that last scene? It's what life is all about. Hope and the future, even if you just take it 10 minutes at a time. How many of us grow up and forget that it's that afternoon spent tossing a ball around that we remember when we're old?

I was born in 1959 so I'm a child of the 70's. I saw It's A Wonderful Life dozens, if not hundreds, of times over the years on the UHF channels we could get from Boston. I lived in Warwick, RI and we got channels 38 and 56 clear as a bell. I used to spend pretty much all day Sunday watching old movies from noon to 6PM. Then there was The Movie Loft with Dana Hersey that aired week nights. I saw a lot of old movies, and one I had seen countless times was It's a Wonderful Life.

But as many times as I had thought I had seen It's a Wonderful Life, it wasn't until I was in my twenties that I really saw it for the first time. I was at a K-Mart in 1986 when I came across a VHS copy of it and bought it. I was pretty much amazed when I read the jacket and discovered that the movie was 2 hours and 20 minutes long. That can't be right, I thought. I had never seen it in aired in more than a 2 hour time slot with commercials. There was no way this tape was just the movie. I popped it in the VCR and started watching it.

This was not the movie I remembered. While every scene was familiar, I realized that I had never actually seen the entire movie before. Not in one sitting, unedited, with no commercials. It was much darker than I remembered it to be. Much more depressing. George really was beaten down by life. A good man who did the right thing, always, but had very little to show for it.

Or so he thought.

My favorite part of the movie is when Clarence tells George that all the men on the transport would have died if not for him. Harry wasn't there to save them because George wasn't there to save Harry. That's when I start crying. By the time Harry says "to my big brother George, the richest man in town" I'm a blubbering idiot.

It's A Wonderful LIfe is not only the greatest Christmas movie of all time, it's the second greatest movie of all time. Only Casablanca is better.

I know. It gets really comical if you pursue their arguments. For example, I'm an atheist who objects to gay rights for reasons that have nothing to do with religion. Gays hate that. They absolutely can't understand people like me. They would much prefer that all objections to gay rights be based purely on religion. Then they have an argument. With me they don't because I don't care about religion. I object to gay rights laws because I think I should have the right to judge people based on their behavior. Which is really all being gay is. Gay rights laws are nothing more than legislating the reaction to a personal habit. Being homosexual is a self defined condition and anyone can do it. Call yourself gay, and you're gay.

Nice, huh? Gays are actually closer to being a religion than they are to other minorities that are based on birth or skin color. Sorry, no, but gays can't claim the birth thing because then they'd have to be pro-life and they're not. And, again, bisexuals screw up their whole "nobody chooses to be gay" argument.

Want to have a really good laugh? Just argue with a gay person long enough about how nobody should be forced to accept anyone else's behavior, especially sexual behavior, and they will say that being gay has nothing to do with sex.

Oh, yeah, they will. What else are they gonna say?

I will never understand anyone who thinks their sexuality is their defining characteristic. But gay people do. Who else would write something like this:

"Excuse me? As a white gay man, even I know that male caucasians are no longer anywhere near top of the totem pole in guilt-ridden, Euro-phobic America. Consequently, I thank God everyday for my homosexuality - the one weapon I have to survive in the PC jungle. "

Huh? You're glad that you are attracted to other men because of the political capital it gives you?

Oh. OK.

I'm bisexual. Not really, but as a white female I need that advantage, you know?

Oh, wait. Homosexuals really don't like bisexuality. They have to include them under their umbrella (you know, the Harry Hay school of gay rights) but they really, really hate any depiction of bi's in pop culture. Oh, no. A Meredith Baxter can decide in late middle age that she's a Lesbian, but heaven forbid a Julie Cypher or Anne Hecht decide that they're not really Lesbians after all.

Why do gay rights people hate bisexuals? Because they know that bisexuals screw up their argument.

The biggest myth about Saturday Night Live is that it was ever funny. It wasn't. Not even during it's first season. I was a 16 year old high school sophomore who had to watch it every Saturday night to survive school the following week because to NOT watch it was to immediately be viewed as terminally uncool. So I suffered from 11:30PM to 1AM every Saturday night a new episode was on in case there was a 2 minute bit that would be the talk of school the next week.

There rarely was a funny live bit. The pre-taped stuff was usually pretty funny. The fake commercials were always good for a laugh. Mr. Bill was funny the first couple of times. The beginning of the show was OK. You just basically had to wait for Chevy Chase to fall down. Weekend Update was usually fairly funny, accept for when they beat the dead horses like Emily Litella. If Dan Akroyd was in a sketch, it was usually very funny.

But it was very few and far between. Most of the show was simply painful to sit through. If you added up all the funny bits from the first season of 90 minute episodes, there is no way you could find 15 funny minutes of live material. No way.

Man, oh man, I couldn't wait until 1 o'clock so it would be over.

I used to look forward to that one weekend a month when Lloyd Dobbin's show was on. That was much better, and funnier, than SNL.