300: A Rorshach For Our Times

What week would be complete without some drooling inanity from the Guardian. This time it's a movie review sorta' of 300. A movie so terrible that...

The release of the box office hit 300 has already been accompanied in the US by indignation, outrage, an online petition and a Google-bombing campaign by the American Iranian community.

All apparently happening at a theater not near me.

The Spartans behave as the archetypal id of the neo-conservative regime changers' ego - uncompromising and unforgiving. This is the language of the "surge" rather than Baker-Hamilton recommendations. King Leonidis is cynical about diplomatic niceties, slaughtering Persian emissaries against all convention. This is the cartoon version of the way John Bolton behaved at the UN, making it clear that he had nothing but disdain for what he considered to be the double-talking, wheeling and dealing that diplomacy usually is all about.

John Bolton.
hmmm
I think that would be a good look for him. All red cloak and big Lambda on a shield, but I just can't picture someone doing his hair before a battle.