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UrbanOutfitters: Voting is for Old People Tee

Tell that to my son who’s pissed because he doesn’t turn 18 until 8 days after the election.

Like I always say, if you don’t vote you have no right to complain. And I’m a complainer.

[ via Chari ]

In my little mini-rant about the commercialism of The Passion of the Christ, I was only partly sure that Mel had participated in the icky passtime of the selling of Jesus. I mean, he probably legitimately made the movie to fulfill a spiritual need of his own and to evangelize to the rest of the world. And you can’t really avoid commercialism when you’re trying to sell a movie. Right?

But, good grief, nail pendants and coffee mugs?

CBS News | If Anne Frank Only Knew …

If you think some members of the Left have been overzealous in equating George Bush with Hitler, you haven’t been to North Korea. According to a Dutch news team, the indoctrination of Korean children in to the anti-America cult has reached new levels of bizarre.

The journalists were allowed a rare visit in order to witness North Korea’s use of the most famous book out of Holland–The Diary of Anne Frank. What they found was a world where Anne’s struggle to survive in hiding from the Nazis has become the rallying cry for Korea’s youth to resist “American Nazis” and avoid her fate.

“For world peace, America will have to be destroyed,” adds another student. “Only then, will Anne’s wonderful dream of peace come true.”

Somehow, Anne’s words like “I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart” have been twisted into: “After reading this book, I had a hatred for the American imperialists.” and “As long as the warmonger Bush and the Nazi Americans live, who are worse than Hitler’s fascists, world peace will be impossible to achieve.”

Yikes! These kids have been hanging around the Democratic Underground too long!

Seriously, though, simply chuckling at the (to us) silly notion that our country is filled with concentration camps and is led by an evil dictator takes us off the hook in a way that we cannot afford. How can anything be more dangerous than a nuclear-armed and starving North Korea? And what are we doing about it?

The President needs to focus his attention to important things like this. Harping on gay marriages, morality in the media or hot new TV shows isn’t making me feel any safer.