So, I decided today that I should actually start using my livejournal. I'm gonna blog. Well, probably about as well as I stayed on that last diet, but we'll see.

So I had a conversation today with a friend. He asked if I was going to go see Don't Mess with the Zohan. Now, first off, no. Mostly because it looks stupid, and I'm pretty sure there's too big an opportunity for Sandler to miss for sticking in vaguely homophobic jokes masked in a "we're only joking, it's cool to be gay, just, you know funny" facade that will annoy me, but also make me look like a huge bitch with no sense of humor when I point them out. So, yeah, I'm not too excited.

But then there's also the fact that when it comes to the Palestinian/Israeli issue, I'm fairly well known for my pro-Palestinian leanings. I mean, I'm pretty sure Montana would be mad if I just showed up one day and told them that God wanted me to have their state and to piss off. By the way, Montana folk, I'll be needed the infrastructure too. Leave your TV. So I told my friend that I just didn't want to sit through the movie.

His response was to laugh at me. And I quote: "You're not going to an Adam Sandler movie because of your politics?" So yeah. I laughed too. It seems ridiculous when you look at it like that, but I think I have a decent point. Most people in this country have no real concept of why Palestine is mad. I'm from the South. We had to deal with carpetbaggers and are still vaguely pissed about it. I just think that I would be annoyed sitting around watching a theater full of dumbasses laugh about a situation that they have no actual idea about.

I don't think this makes me a bad person. I mean, don't get me wrong, I don't think it makes me a better person than others either. I just think that being an educated adult is a responsibilty every human being has. And we don't get the give that up just because it might be a little funny.

I mean, seriously, it's like the guy at the dinner party telling a joke about rape. It's just really not funny, dick. Shut up, already.