Every once in awhile, I like to check on my friends at the Nation Review Corner online to see what the right's take on the world is. So today I logged on to see what they had to say about the news that Bush just went off and ruled that people can be spied upon without any sort of legal niceties, something I have a hunch just might be against every precept of American constitutionality. And there reaction? They're more outraged that somebody leaked it and that there are no calls for an investigation. Not only that, it's the height of hypocrisy that we're making all this kerfluffle over the outing of Valerie Plame and not the outing of illegal torture cells in Europe or illegal wire tapping.

It's a matter of national security, of course.

At this point, one has to wonder what the reaction would be if it's ever leaked that Cheney and Rumsfield themselves went to Gitmo and sodomized terror suspects in an effort to get them to talk. Would they finally acknowledge the wrongness of it? Would it be just a central question of there being ass-fucking involved? Or would they be more outraged that the story is leaked than of the ass-fucking?

I also noticed that somehow, the Culture Wars have ensnared "King Kong" as everyone is rooting for Kong to fail and for Narnia to shake the Box Office moneymaker this holiday season. The reason is because Kong is a godless, secular, Hollywood flick that makes the military out to be the bad guys (they kill Kong, after all). "Narnia" is, of course, a good wholesome, Christian flick because it's supposed Christ-y ness.

Now, first of all, does everything have to be sucked into the blender of the Culture Wars? And second of all, while I haven't seen "Narnia," I'm pretty much sure Kong is better movie. Ferocious dinosaurs and giant apes on top of tall buildings is always more cooler than talking Beavers.

But mainly, is "The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe" that big of a Christ allegory? Yeah, Aslan sacrifices himself to save people, then gets resurrected. That's Christ-like, but it's not exactly like He's cornered the market on sacrifice/resurrection stories. If that makes the movie "Christian" then you can say the same about Buffy. She sacrificed herself, she died, she came back to life. Hell, so did Obi Wan Kenobi for that matter.

If just that makes the Christians get all wet and spend tons of money to they can stare at the God-head, then sign me up-- I wanna write a movie in which somebody sacrifices himself and comes back to life. Then I'll market it to all the churches, make tons of money, and blow it all on hookers & blow.