What the hell is wrong with people? Or is it just politicians? No one seems to know what is important anymore. They are just getting fired up about crazy, mindless stuff. Look at New York. I mean, New York of all places. First, they ban trans-fats – effectively destroying centuries of cannoli baking. Then they try to remove salt from restaurants. Salt! Didn’t the cavemen use salt? Tribes in every underdeveloped country use salt… and strangely don’t have our health problems (they have other issues). Now people are pushing for the state to tax “sugary drinks”. Except politicians are so stupid that they don’t know that most sodas are NOT made with sugar. And all this is to protect “The Children”. They scream – “The Children! The Children! Someone protect The Children… since we as parents are too damn busy. Plus it’s really, really hard.”

Yeah… But the worst has been this whole “cigarettes in movies” horseshit. All these whiny people are out complaining about AVATAR. Are they complaining about the plot? No. Are they complaining about the extreme use of computer graphics? No. Are they complaining about the color blue? No. They are complaining about the scene in which a 61 year old actress smoked a cigarette. Why? Because it was glamorizing cigarette smoking for all The Children. Because OF COURSE children would pay more attention to the five minutes in which a SIXTY-ONE YEAR OLD woman is smoking, rather than the other TWO HOURS of the rest of the colorful, 3-D CGI extravaganza. Yeah… that sounds right.

Well, it gets worse!! These evil, whiny, PC bastards are trying to change history. Yes – HISTORY! Someone is going around excising cigarette smoking from already existing movies! Especially those from periods in our lives when most EVERYONE was smoking. Like war movies. Tonight I was watching one of my favorite WW II movies – Kelly’s Heroes – on the AMC channel. I’m watching a scene where Telly Savalas talking to his men. The camera cuts to one of the men and then back to Telly. There is smoke coming out of his mouth. Then back to the men. Then back to Telly and smoke is coming out of his mouth again. HOWEVER – you never see a cigarette. Anywhere. In the whole movie! Now I have seen this movie hundreds of times and I don’t remember Telly Savalas spontaneously combusting! Honestly, people – men smoke in a war. That is why they show that in war movies! And what Children are you protecting?? What group of twelve year olds watch old war movies? Do we now remove cigarettes from Bette Davis’ hands in all her films?!

Just knock it off! You PC people suck. NO ONE is watching old flicks on TV to learn how to smoke or get some vicarious thrill… not when porn is readily available. Get a clue and leave my movies alone.

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