I saw Brief Interviews with Hideous Men today. I don't quite know what to think. I liked it, but it wasn't super amazing or anything. However, I think it's one of those movies that might stick with me for a little while, as I try to figure it out. So who knows. What I do know is that the previews they show at the IFC Center are way different from your normal United Artist/AMC movie theaters' trailers. This was a welcomed change of pace, even if it only served to accentuate my utter ignorance of independent cinema (and documentaries, in particular).

All right, time to get serious (and angry). Two "That's Fucked-Up" stories in the news recently: A Facebook poll asking whether President Obama should be killed and the three (four?) guys who killed a fellow student in Chicago.

First, the Facebook poll. The question is blunt enough. The four answer choices? "No," "Maybe," "Yes," and "Yes, if he cuts my health care." As if this weren't fucking embarrassing enough, we have to throw the whole health care debate into this? People -- stupid, ignorant, fucking idiot people who make polls like this -- listen up: You're stupid, ignorant, and a fucking idiot. What the fuck kind of sense would it make for the president to cut your health care? If you already have health care and you're happy with it, then you're set! No one's going to touch it! How many times do we have to fucking go over this? Honestly. This is for the eighty million (I made that up, but it sounds right) people who don't have health insurance, who can't afford the lovely plans and doctors and medication that you have, who have to foreclose their homes or their apartments or their trailers to pay for the debt accumulated from massive medical bills in the unfortunate instance that, god forbid, something bad happens to them -- something they certainly didn't ask for/care for, mind you -- and they're only trying their best to fucking sustain the people they love. What the fuck is wrong with helping them out? Who cares if they're productive members of society -- are we that fucking callous that we don't care whether or not a human-fucking-being dies? Why? Why should some people live and some people die? No one -- not the successful people, and certainly not the poor and uninsured people -- asked to be born into this world. No one elected their existence. We're just created without any say in the matter, hurled into this life and expected to just deal. And not everyone has the same privileges, the same opportunities, the same comfortable life that you and I had. We're the lucky ones. Seems like the least we can do is pay a little bit more in taxes -- from the jobs that we're lucky enough to have -- to help other people out. But the absolute stupidest fucking idea I've ever heard is thinking the President of the United States should be killed because of this. Goddamn. You make me ashamed to be part of the human race.

I didn't even talk about the other story. Senseless, meaningless death. Awful...

But, oh, right. What should we talk about instead? Roman Polanski? Khloe Kardashian? This Stephen Colbert dog? Please...