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SCAN SCAM

Be careful how you scan the news. This morning in the LA Times Ron Goldstein 'got' me with this:
Political Storm Cloud Hangs Over Hollywood.

He starts with a review of the ominous attempts to regulate 'decency' on cable and internet as well as to regulate internet political activity.

He then moves on to talk about the IMax decision not to let any film be shown that has 'darwinism' at its core, lest the creationists demonstrate and hurt business. A film called Volcano has evidently already been put aside.

Then he lists a long list of other harbingers of Hollywood cravenism in the face of the right wing censors. As I read through it, I missed a crucial part. It was his projection of what might happen over the next year if this trend were to continue. In my speed reading, I took it as actual fact.

The scary part was that, as upsetting as the headlines were, I was not all that surprised. It was with a sigh of relief that I realized somewhere in the middle that it was a put on. But is it? Some of it is too close to a possibility to be very funny.

Try the idea of adding a category to the Academy Awards (oh yes and don't forget the trademark ™) for Best Religious Film. They are such awful whores, I would not be surprised.