Even though I didn't watch the big "State of Union" speech last night (puh-lease), I did hear that Bush named Iran, Iraq, and North Korea as our biggest enemies. Trying to rally the nation, he called them the "Axis of Evil." What a dumb-ass name. It's not just that it's not in the slightest bit subtle, it's just that it's, well, so uncreative. I mean, it's like the name of bad guys in a really bad sci-fi or fantasy movie, the kind of movie where the writer were so uncreative that he couldn't come up with a good name for the bad guys. It's like those movies where the bad guys are called "the Forces of Darkness" or "the Brotherhood of Evil" or even "the Empire."

I mean, if you're gonna rally a nation for some big, huge epic type conflict against some Big Bads, you at least should makes sure that the bad names have a bad, evil sounding name. Just look at WWII. Part of it's epicness is that we fought people called the Nazis. Nazi- that just sounds evil. Nothing called Nazi could possibly be all sweetness and light. There's no way Nazi could be used as a name for, say, a really cute puppy or brand of ice cream.

That's why Bush should of given them a cooler sounding name, like Legion of Doom. Now that's a cool sounding, evil guy name. Maybe the coolest ever. Or hell, maybe even the Trio of Terrorism. Just something that stirs the soul a bit more than "Axis of Evil."

In a way, that's why fighting terrorists are so much easier. They all have evil sounding names. Like Al-Queda. Or Hamas. Even the KGB. All those names sound threatening. It's easy to say "let's go kick some Al-Queda booty" or "watch out for the KGB!" There's not nearly the same effect with "let's go kick some Axis of Evil booty" or "watch out for the Axis of Evil!" It doesn't even work it's way into a cool acronym, which is what all evil organizations should work as. Like the KGB. Or SMERSH (the bad guy organization in all the James Bond flicks. We just got AE or even the AoE. Ooooh, we gotta go fight the AoE. the AoE are on the watching you.

Yawn.