Steak sauce!

Last night’s SNL’s 30-minute “Weekend Update” special included a hilarious rendition of Hall and Oates’ “You Make My Dreams Come True” redone for the 2008 presidential election.

Seriously – this is “greatness” defined.  Kudos to Will Forte and Fred Armisen!

The blind doth protest

A soon-to-be released movie about blindness, aptly titled “Blindness,” is not receiving rave reviews from the National Federation of the Blind.

Dr. Marc Maurer, President of the NFB, has lambasted the movie as portraying the blind as “incompetent, filthy, vicious, and depraved. They are unable to do even the simplest things like dressing, bathing, and finding the bathroom. The truth is that blind people regularly do all of the same things that sighted people do.”

I haven’t personally seen this movie. However, I’ve seen the trailer, and I have read some background information about the plot.

The movie (adapted from a novel) is about a virus that overtakes the citizens of a city and suddenly makes them lose their vision. The movie shows how society falls apart in the wake of this destructive disease.

The intelligent viewer understands that the movie is not attempting to portray blind people in a negative light. Instead the filmmaker shows how society falls apart after a lethal virus quickly and suddenly takes over a city’s population. If an entire area succumbs to any type of epidemic that requires a quarantine (such as in this flick) and exercises such damage on human beings, one can assume that widespread chaos and hysteria would ensue. This is no slight to the blind. The disease in the movie could have portrayed the loss of any of the five senses and the result would have remained constant.

The problem here is not the movie itself, but the overabundance of political correctness that society faces on a day-to-day basis, which is getting awfully burdensome and tiring. The NFB is quick to raise an issue where no issue truly exists. Everybody is quick to take offense for the silliest of reasons today, all in the name of political correctness – which is the real virus that is plaguing American society.

If the blind aren’t happy with this movie, they simply shouldn’t go see it.

Uh-oh, will the PC police arrest me for that?