This article was linked on the Afternoon Edition of RealClearPolitics.com; just wait until the liberal drive-by trolls come storming in.

When the Audi "Green Police" ad ran, I kept waiting for the punchline to expose it as an intentional satire of the green movement. Then it ended with the Audi getting a free pass from the environmental Gestapo.

Before reading anyone else's analysis of the Audi ad, I could not decide if it was meant to satirize the eco-freaks, or if it accepts the inevitability of an oppressive environmental regulatory apparatus, and uses it to sell cars. Very possibly it intentionally does both.

Regardless of the ad's intentions (beyond selling cars, obviously), I view its vision of a Green Gestapo as a real possibility, but not inevitable.

More worrisome are the left-wing commentators out there who justify and accept the Audi ad's vision of the future--Drudge linked to one such pundit who assumes "every man he knows" would accept the EcoDystopia of the ad as both necessary and positive. Regardless of what the Audi ad intended, the left views the "green police" as both desirable and necessary. They must be stopped.

I actually liked "Gangs of New York". It wasn't a great film, but I thought, as others have said, that it is a pretty good period piece.

"The Aviator" and "The Departed", not so much.

"He then meets Damon at an abandoned building and gets himself shot. Wahlberg shoots Damon and then Scorsese ends with the lame shot of the rat on a window sill -- CORNY."

"The rat stands for obviousness."--Ralph Wiggum

Gotta love "Spaceballs", though.

"F***! Even in the future nothing works!"

"No one wants that more than I do, and it would certainly prove my theory wrong that the first step of a Scorsese comeback must be unhitching his wagon from Leo."

I jumped all over the Top Ten Over-rated Director's list (not Nolte's) of a few weeks ago for including Scorsese, but I can't disagree with Marty's inclusion on this list.

Scorsese apparently views DiCaprio as his New DeNiro and All-Around Go-To Guy, and this is a catastrophic miscalculation on Scorsese's behalf.

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OK, I get the purpose of "Rock The Vote". So long as we need a military (and we always will), we will need soldiers, and the possibility of a draft. Therefore, we need people 18 and up to serve in the military, and if 18-year olds can serve, and possibly die, in the US military they should have the right to vote.

The right of youth to vote can have unfortunate consequences, though, as the 2008 election is showing us.

Hmm, why would the left want to convince young adults to vote?

MTV's 18-25 viewing demographic generally doesn't own property, so they have no reason to care about rising taxes.

Young adults usually don't own their own business, so they have no reason to oppose higher taxes and regulations.

Many 18-25 year-old American citizens are still in college or grad school, and have no real life experience. Instead, their main sources of "knowledge" are left-of-center academics who themselves have no real world experience outside the Ivory Tower.

Young adults, especially in today's celeberity culture, often value style and image over substance, and can be persuaded to vote for un-vetted, un-tested, superficially charismatic candidates whose campaign promises are neatly packaged in vague slogans like "hope" and "change".

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Keep your eyes on the liberals in Congress--Air America's failure will be seized on as an excuse to revive the fairness doctrine as a form of back-door censorship.

The left will never, indeed can never, admit Air America failed because it could not compete in the free marketplace of ideas. Instead, they will blame those evil corporations for brain-washing sheeple like us in to ignoring our own best interests.

After Coakley's defeat in MA, the left is in an ugly mood, and once they get done blaming each other they will turn back to their favorite bogeyman, Rush Limbaugh. I expect to hear more about the fairness doctrine very soon.

I say Keith Olbermann rapes small children.

If he doesn't like it then disprove it. Because he hasn't.