Barack Obama? … OVER IT!

**Sniff sniff**

Anybody else smell that?  You know… the big shit on the constitution that Barack Obama took last week when saying he wanted to expand the Office of Faith Based Initiatives?  You know the SAME OFFICE that is unconstitutional, but somehow managed to get an office in the fucking White House?  Yeah it’s illegal.  Yeah, it’s bullshit.  Government giving money to religion is against the first amendment.  Period.  End of Story.  Don’t try to justify it.

Religion and politics don’t mix unless your goal is to completely trade in the integrity of the Constitution.  Not to mention the fact that this religious pandering, while done very specific and strategically, has caused Obama to trade in his own integrity to better position an election win.  Eh… bumps in the road to victory right?  

Now history has shown that politicians can be very machiavellian when it comes to religious beliefs just like the upper class, nobility, and statesmen of centuries past have been.  Just like our Founding Fathers were.  Obama, just like Bush, Jr., may be a very sincere religious man.  And in being that he also believes in spreading the idealic Christian moral example through “good works”.  After all Faith without Works is dead, the Bible says.  The problem is that not everyone in this country is Christian, or religious at all.  Not to mention that all of this is typical sly tactics religion has been using for centuries in order to get people to convert anyway.  It’s scary shit to think that our government is participating in this.  That Obama wants to expand it!      

So that’s it!  I’m done with Barack Obama.  I’m over it.  In a way I’m kind of disappointed in myself for getting caught up in the hype.  I mean my cynical nature prevented me from being completely in bed with the guy, but it didn’t stop me from slowly shuffling toward that first bedpost.  But now the veil has been lifted, and the bullshit is flowing faster than the floodwaters in the midwest.  

All this pandering, flip-flopping, moving toward the center bugs the shit out of me even more.  It’s like the volume was just cranked from 3 to 300.  I get it, it’s just part of the game.  The media made Obama into this golden child, he’s always been a very pragmatic politician.  He’s always been a very religious guy.  I get it.  I get that we have a very deep rooted systemic problem in our government that gets more and more malignant every election cycle.  I get it.           

And with everyone being an armchair pundit (including yours truly at times) someone always has “the answer”.  Where does this answer come from?  Some from actual life experience, but I would argue the majority is usually bogarted from other sources by people that don’t want to actually have an opinion.  They want others to tell them what to do and how to think.  They get it from some politician, political party, maybe a journalist or blogger with strong opinions, maybe some leaflet in the bathroom at Union Station seemingly based on facts.  All of this makes me realize how brainwashed our country actually is.  They want us to keep ourselves occupied with all this other shit, while they pull the strings, and some religious nut on a crusade to save humanity gets elected.   

But all of it’s a game.  A horserace.  And God do they love it.

But so do you… well some of you. ;]

Just stop, Paul Haggis. Stop!

After finding this news, my first instinct was to vomit.  Having failed to do that, I went down to the dark annals of my psychie to realize why I fucking hated Crash so much.  While, not only was it a movie about racism written by a middle-aged white guy from the hollywood hills, but it was down right insulting. Insulting to my intelligence, and frankly insulting to the intelligence of any thinking individual who actually experiences or has experienced real racism.   It really wanted to be more than it was, and right now it has the chance to do that with a 13 episode order from Starz Entertainment, with Dennis Hopper to head the cast.  

You know Crash would’ve been a groundbreaking movie… 15-20 years ago!  Watching it in the 21st Century just makes it feel like a really long-winded After School Special.

But it won best picture so what do I know, right?   

We’re adults Paul Haggis, you don’t have to shove it down our throats.  

Oh and I HATED the snow!  

Katee Sackhoff is washing her hands clean of BSG

Now I get it.  I really do.  It’s like anything else.  If you’re a genre author, director, or even actor it’s harder definitely for one to break from that  mold especially if you’ve been doing it for a while.  People are just less keen to take you seriously.  Ask the director who wanted to direct a period piece after having a resume of nothing but scifi or horror.  Or the author who wants to write the next great american novel however her resume is nothing but homoerotic vampiric love sagas.  Just ask someone like Dean Stockwell, Jonathan Frakes, Scott Bakula, even William Shatner up until fairly recently (and he still bitches about not getting is due time in the upcoming Star Trek film).  Katee Sackhoff wants to nip it in the bud, and I totally understand.  Philosophically for sure.  I also understand that genre fans, are some of the most loyal and consumer crazy fans out there.  All you need to do is look at San Diego Comic Con to gage any sort of sense on how powerful that fan base is to your celebrity.  Now I’m not suggesting that Sackhoff is unappreciative of her fans and the celebrity she undoubtedly received being in this show.  Nor am I suggesting that she’s unappreciative of Battlestar Galactica itself, and everything that came with it.  Actors, Writers, Directors.  What I’m saying is more bluntly: whether done intentionally or not, she’s dissing the fans.    

Now this is not the first time actors have dissed their fans, nor will it be the last.  Again ask Shatner.  Katee does have hotness on her side, which definitely gives her a little buffer, and she’s also very big in the lesbian community: another buffer.  But aside from all of that, it’s just a lame move.  

Katee, honey, I’m sure you’re a smart enough girl to realize the possible consequences of this.  Yet it seems like you don’t care.  In an industry where image is everything, you’re going to turn your back on the one thing that basically gave you your career?  The fans of BSG.  That is a bold move girl.  And one that will have inevitable blowback.  

People like David Duchovney, Julie Benz, Jeri Ryan, Alyson Hannigan, got their fame in genre moved to other things without turning their backs on the fans.  

Of course the real challenge for her isn’t jumping from BSG to Nip/Tuck like she’s doing.  She can do that, get another show, win an Emmy maybe.  (Although whether she likes it or not, people will initially look to cast her in the tough girl tomboy roll.  A roll that the lesbian community, of course, really likes.)  But geeks are like elephants, they never forget.  It’s what makes them geeky.  The real challenge, for Katee Sackhoff is jumping to the big leagues, ie feature films which I’m sure she wants to do.  I’m not saying it’s just going to be difficult for her, it’s difficult for all TV actors, writers, directors, etc.  It’s harder to transition.  And when you try to transition, with a fanbase out there that feels slighted… well good luck.  After all you rolled the dice and maybe you’ll get lucky.  That is how this town works it seems.  For good or bad.     

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