seeing the following two headlines, side by side, was a bit unsettling.

Bush admits he went to war on faulty intelligence

Bush says Iran a ‘real threat’

partly, because bush doesn’t admit many mistakes. but also because of the whole credibility issue. i didn’t believe iraq was much of a threat before the war began. hello? we have assloads of nukes. whatever saddam had (or obviously didn’t have) in his arsenal, was beside the point. unless the american people needed to be duped into launching a military offensive on the country.

so when bush says something is a real threat, i say, “nukes.” there is no way in hell that any country would be dumb enough to be a threat to us. until we start invading countries, and that’s when every country and their mother seeks nuclear weapons technology.

do you see how this works? it’s called deterrence. any country without nuclear weapons will be democratized. or, as i like to call it: spreading freedom with a gun.

today marks the release of the new king kong remake. here’s why i don’t want to see it:

• too much hype. who died and made peter jackson the king of all directors? oh yeah, j.r.r. tolkien, that’s who. just because peter jackson delivered an impossible movie trilogy, doesn’t make him the messiah.
• king kong, schming schmong. i was never really a fan of that big ape and his molestation of that poor lady. this new remake has all the ball-tingling special effects you’d ever want, but do i really care about the story? not so much.
• and finally, the #1 reason i don’t want to see it: running time. 3 hours and 7 minutes! say what‽ this is not an epic about hobbits and rings and massive wars. it’s not even a giant ship hitting an iceberg and sinking. it’s an ape movie. big ape thumps chest, molests lady, climbs skyscraper, and punchs plane out of the sky. in my opinion, that sounds more like 2 hours and 7 minutes worth of film.