What happened to cartoons?

Underdog. C'mon.

You need Wally Cox's voice and the human/dog hybrid that is Underdog. Live action versions of cartoons are disastrous. So is CGI. The whole purpose is to make it look REAL as if that's the most important thing. Does anyone remember the way Bugs Bunny would raise his eyebrow? The way the Grinch got his idea? How Bob Clampett put the delightful "You can do anything in a cartoon!" in one of his classic face-stretching, eye-bulging classics?

Cartooning is a lost art. Well, I guess art is a lost art. This is just another symptom of the horrific decline of our national psycho-epistemology. So many people are incapable of dealing with the artistic, meaning the stylized, the essentialized, the suggested. All art has been reduced to naturalistic recording, even when dealing with the sensational.

Give me Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, Friz Freling. Give me Harryhausen. Don't give me your amazing computer-generated special effects. They have no soul.

Who Cares About Hypocracy?

People lacking any solid philosophical foundation (read: today's conservatives) are incapable of attaching this whole Global Warming/Climate Change propaganda machine. They have been attacking all who buy into this nonsense with criticisms of Al Gore's carbon footprint, the amount of electricity he uses, how many plane trips he takes a year and so on. This is not an appropriate response, because it acknowleges as true the premise of the criticized individual.

While I agree that the sight of Al Gore making everyone take a pledge at the live earf concert is revolting, the only way to attack this nonsense is to attack the science vociferously. Many are, but too few.