So I finally went to see avatar (this post does not contain spoilers). I’ve actually seen this movie before, many years ago, only then it was called Ferngully and the music was much better.

It was an interesting flick if you could get past the unoriginal plot and the glaring irony of a major corporation producing a movie where the idea of a major corporation is evil. But past all that, there’s something else which began to sink in as I peered through my 3D glasses: the missing villains.

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When I was twelve I had a friend who’s family was fairly well off. I have a lot of memories that showcase the extreme disparity between us, but the time we ate lunch together at his parents’ tennis club is perhaps the most clear. He ordered this plate of nachos and after eating only about 1/3 of it he threw it away. I looked at him as if he’d just eaten the face off a newborn child. “What?? Why did you do that? It was perfectly good to eat!” cried I. He said, simply, that he was done eating and wasn’t hungry anymore.

Anyone who has been to weight watchers knows what the “clean plate club” is, and for those who aren’t familiar with the term I think it’s pretty self-explanatory. We are people who feel a compulsive need to eat every speck of food on our plates. Over the course of my life, I’ve met some people who have this particular conditioned behavior something fierce. It causes them overwhelming psychological pain to see just one bite of food thrown away, even if it’s on someone else’s plate. I’ve witnessed people sit and miserably stuff themselves, sometimes on the brink of tears, because they just cannot bring themselves to “waste” it.

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UPDATE: Brennan had a better caption idea, so I put his on top of mine.

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Chris Matthews, a talk-show host for MSNBC, has been in the news recently for making a gaffe about president Obama while commenting on his state of the union address. Taken out of context, the gaffe sounds pretty bad: ” . . . I forgot he was black tonight for an hour.”

Ouch.

It’s one of those moments where white people everywhere get really uncomfortable while we wait to see how the black community reacts. If they react negatively, we throw Chris under the bus. That’s what’s currently happening, but read his whole comment and see if that changes how you feel about his “d’oh!” moment: (more…)

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