Mike Lester for February 27, 2018

The Rump watches those shows and gets dumb ideas of arming teachers.

Trump lives his life vicariously through those movies but makes fun of true war heroes like John McCain.

Yes, let’s return to the grand old days of movies where cowboys and Indians frolic.

While we’re at it, let’s do some strong roles for barely clad women.

Did you like “The Astronaut Farmer?” It was about a fellow who had to drop out of the Original Seven, in order to save the family farm, but went on to build his own Mercury/Atlas system, and then made it into orbit against US government opposition.

Too unrealistic, hunh?

OK, so will you be promoting “Early Man?” It’s a stop-motion animation by the same studio that made “Chicken Run” some years ago. Silly and uplifting, about the value of teamwork.

Oh, you don’t like soccer. Sorry.

Well then, how about the upcoming “A Wrinkle in Time?” Madelaine L’Engle was a celebrated, explicitly Christian, author. Surely you’ll be touting that?

No? You don’t like Oprah Winfrey?

fusilier, who wonders if you mitched and boaned about remaking “Ghostbusters” with guuurrrrls ….

James 2:24

Meanwhile the right wants to attack the survivors of gun violence, by making assault style weapons available to the general public.

Isn’t it too soon to talk about gun violence in the movies?

Oddly, they watch those same movies in Europe & Australia, yet kids there aren’t shooting up schools.

Appears to be a rather feeble effort from Mr. Lester on a very tragic issue.

According to data found in Wikipedia, compiled from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Violent Crime Rate peaked in 1991 with a rate of 758 per 100,000. It fell steadily in the succeeding years, bottoming at 361 in 2014. As of 2016, the rate was 386 per 100,000.

The question really should be, what were we doing right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States

When I attended a Chicago public high school 40 years ago, the JROTC fired live ammunition on the school range.

The NRA killed more children today, and the GOP Congress delayed, and got paid.

For once, a real “reality” show.

Whether or not you believe that the movies are one of the causes of the violence, this is what “we” do. That award ceremony could be jointly sponsored by Hollywood and the NRA.