more from the wfmu blog

"This week I watched two films that are frighteningly contemporary in their subtext and declaration of attitude. Idiocracy by Mike Judge is supposed to be just a fluff of a comedy about below-average types Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph conned into an absurd year-long cryogenics experiment, but instead wake up 500 years later to find themselves the smartest people in the dumbest country. The sharp jab to the jaw came in its frightening dead on commentary of where we could be heading, post November 4th. Will we end up with a President who has a highly evolved sense of what needs to be done to undo the damage of the past 8 long, dumb years or will we end up with a family in the White House that includes a teenage mother married to a high school dropout? In short: breed, smart people, breed!"