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06
Jan

Gamers to PETA: “Ethical? You’re doing it wrong.”

By The Oversneer 18 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists and PETA

UPDATE: PETA responds to the controversy in EDGE, saying that Fable II’s chicken-kicking “is done in a light-hearted manner. I don’t think anyone’s going to go out and start kicking chickens in their yard because of this game.” (Maybe no one will go vegetarian either.)

Wired notes today that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals — did ya ever notice that the “e” for “ethical,” is the only lower-case letter in their Logo? — anyway, PETA has picked a Video Game of the Year.

It’s Fable II, which you XBOX maniacs already know well.

True, eating meat in this game makes you slovenly and portly, and chomping on vegetables makes you lean and quick.

But …. erm, … PETA? It’s a video game. There are no real vegetarians in it. It’s all (*whispered*) imaginary!

Last year Simon blogged about how Mothers Against Drunk Driving was all upset over Grand Theft Auto IV because the game’s characters could drive drunk:

“[W]hen you’re sitting at home pretending to drive drunk in a video game, you’re not out driving drunk. You probably haven’t even left the house for days. You are a menace to nobody but yourself.”

Same deal here.

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06
Jan

Tom Cruise Is Done Talking About Scientology (in America)

By Holly Won't 25 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Movie Stars, Newscasters, Scientology, The Religious and Writers

When Tom Cruise told Matt Lauer last month that he was going to back off the Scientology rhetoric while promoting movies (such as the I’m-shocked-it-didn’t-bomb Valkyrie), we breathed a collective sigh of relief.

Lauer: How do you deal with [the press backlash] emotionally?

Cruise: I learned a really good lesson… I understand the spin of it. I’ve lived 25 years of this kind of stuff. Certainly things were also twisted and misrepresented. I just take responsibility for it… good lessons. I’m here to entertain people. Certain issues and things… have a time and a place and proper environment. When I’m promoting films… that’s what I want to talk about.

Lauer: It’s my understanding you decided don’t want to talk about Scientology any more.

Cruise: That’s actually not true. It’s something — I’ve been a Scientologist 25 years… I think there’s a time and a place for it. Things can get misunderstood and twisted. When people are tuning in to hear about my movie… that’s what I’m here to talk about. If I don’t talk about it, it’s like ‘why aren’t you talking about it?’ If I do talk about it, it’s like ‘you’re proselytizing.’ I’m here to entertain people.

It almost seemed like he’d developed a little self-awareness, doncha think? Turns out that only holds true for press junkets in America:

Actor Tom Cruise said Scientology teachings helped him overcome childhood dyslexia, a Spanish magazine reported.

Cruise was quoted by Spanish magazine XL Semanal as saying he was diagnosed with the learning disability when he was 7 years old.

Cruise said he was often anxious, frustrated and bored as a youth and couldn’t concentrate in class, the magazine reported on its Web site Sunday.

The magazine quoted Cruise as saying he was functionally illiterate when he graduated from school in 1980, but learned to read perfectly as an adult through Scientology technology.

What I wouldn’t give for a second Spanish Inquisition…

06
Jan

Norm Coleman is No Longer a Big Fan of Concession Speeches

By The Oversneer 33 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: U.S. Left-wing Politicos and U.S. Right-Wing Politicos

UPDATE: Coleman sues.

It truly must be The End of Days. The United States Senate seems poised to seat a professional comedian. To go along with the dozens of other professional comedians who currently serve in the “august body.”

If you’re from Minnesota, I have to hand it to you. Say it with me: “Senator Al Franken.” It sure beats “Senator Garrison Keillor” or “Senator Jesse ‘The Body’ Ventura.” Well played.

But even if you can’t stomach the idea of Stuart Smalley sitting on the Senate Armed Services Committee, you have to appreciate the delicious hypocrisy that Norm Coleman and his camp are now showing after the whole re-count fracas.

What a different two months can make!

November 5, 2008:

U.S. Sen.  Norm Coleman today gently suggested that Democrat Al Franken concede the U.S. Senate race to him, thereby beginning the healing process.

“The prospects of overcoming 725 votes is extremely, extremely, extremely, extremely remote,” said Coleman, speaking at his campaign office in St. Paul late morning.

“If you ask me what I would do, I would step back,” said Coleman …

“My hope is that we would begin the healing process today,” said Coleman of closing the political divides in the state and nation.

Coleman lawyer Tony Trimble at a January 5, 2008 press conference:

“The process is far from complete. There can be no confidence in the current results of the United States Senate recount. We will file a contest within the next 24 hours to prompty correct those problems and inaccuracies.”

And Trimble again, speaking yesterday to the Associated Press:

“This process isn’t at an end. It is now just at the beginning.”

Oh, goodie. It’s truly too bad Saturday Night Live is on hiatus.They could have brought Franken back to play himself, complete with the tasteless rape jokes from Playboy. I’m calling Bill Hader for Coleman.

Seriously, though. Pundits on both the Right and the Left are advising Coleman to give it up. If not for the chance to be Minnesota’s next Governor, then how about for the chance to avoid being written about on Deceiver? Or the chance to watch Al be Al for six years? If nothing else, maybe we’ll get to see Mick Jagger impersonations on the Senate floor.

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