For once I will NOT vote. Why? I can't vote for any of these. Disney simply needs to return to its' roots and appeal to kids; and families who want to have fun and are not buried in their devices. Too many zombie kids in this country now. What happened to having fun?
Which is just absolutely sad. When ever there is a pedo sting in FL, they always or almost always include one or more cast members from Disney. And Teachers too. It is crazy but the pedos go where the prey is.
MSM and Disney today are just making so the kids are confused about wrong adult behavior.
I can't vote either but I still roared with laughter at the poll. Thank you, Don, for another post with great clarity. It's worth saving and studying. I'm pretty busy now that I have more clarity myself on what I'm going to do in the future. But I do think your writings are worth studying. I'm mulling an idea of a class for adults on political clarity. We will see how much time and resources God gives me to take care of all of these great plans I have. The cat and I will mull on this.
Recommended: R.L. Trask's entertaining "Watch The Gaffe," because there can be no clarity, political or otherwise, without rules about grammar and language.
I very much dislike the book's subtitle, the nagging "Penguin Guide to Common Errors in English." This is only partly what the book is about. Most of it is a sustained, positive message about how to speak and write precisely in order to make one's point clearly. Even better, the author's wit is superb.
WTG is confusion's worst enemy.
Buy one and see if it's appropriate for you. Used, inexpensive copies are fine.
UK EDITION only (greenish-turquoise paperback cover).
AVOID the U.S. edition, which is horrible.
The UK hardcover is acceptable, but the copy that I ended up with has a fainter ink density --- a publisher's GAFFE; "pitch-black" dark ink density is absolutely essential, given the book's reduced type size.
[Mind The Gaffe, The Penguin Guide to Common Errors in English, Larry Trask [1944-2004]; Penguin Group (2002 paperback)].
I agree it would have been nice to have at least one unperverted answer. Perhaps he could parody the Dems by making Donkey (from Shrek) the only un-crooked answer: "Donkey the straight ass."
All education and even thinking involve value assumptions about good & evil, right and wrong. Neutral is only an option in theory, because choices have outcomes, and different outcomes have different values.
We need more social support, incentives, for good behavior—as well as honest discussion about what is good and why it’s good.
More shaming of actual bad behavior would reduce the bad behavior, but many are now uncomfortable with shaming the two most common bad behaviors, promiscuity and crime.
Very clever comment! I would enjoy raiseng an elbow with you. As I find that I would with Roseanne Barr, after I watched her interview of Tucker Carlson last week - a revelation to me that reality is as I have imagined it and that there are many more smart people out there than I have dared to hope.
The purifying passage of time has provided the courtroom surety of this, as it has revealed with killing JFK, and a magnitude of Uniparty machinations over the years. Lies come and go: truth accumulates.
Maybe the real problem is that society wants a Disney to instill values. Disney and Hollywood are purveyors of entertainment. Parents need to be the ones to teach values. But if you expect a value to be projected on the big screen, that is one thing, but don't expect that your child will absorb it unless you live your life projecting those same values. And messages are mixed in every story, and even adults can't always discern what they are. If you are looking to Hollywood for values, boy are you looking in the wrong place. Maybe the real goal for our society should be to value the role of the mother and father in raising a worthwhile citizen who contributes to that overall sense of well being that a nation should experience. We should be proud of our place in this world. Policing it? No Leading by example? yes. If you want Disney or any other entertainment group to give your child the key to a good life then I suggest as Dr Laura so wisely said, "Get a cat"; you really don't deserve to be a parent, it is the most difficult and most valuable job that God assigned to us.
Nicely said. The great thing about the movies of the past is that they reinforced the values that the parents instilled in their kids. When outside influences align with traditional family values, you end up with a civilized society that works. On the other hand, if you see the hateful values children in Gaza are taught by Hamas and their parents, you get a society that will eventually destroy itself.
I am astounded that Disney is not recognizing how it - in the past- blended unorthodox family units (Snow White), absent fathers (Bambi) or “differences in appearance “ ( Dumbo) with a positive, uplifting, hopeful message. That was always its genius I thought. Disney management doesn’t even understand its rich legacy and why it worked so well. They took the richness of this dramatic tension, and turned the movie scripts into banalities
Don, you are right about movies conveying a message.
For the last 3 years every time I see “a movie” clip of Joe Biden I see a person who has no clue. My favorite ones are when after he gives a “speech” he turns to leave and has no idea where to go or what to do next.
I’m sure others are seeing the same thing I am seeing and know they are watching a fool.
Hollywood has always been a force in America. During the heyday of movies that today we call classics, the content or message reflected a sense of what it was that made America unique among countries. Even back then, Hollywood was very liberal but restrained in their products by public mores. Today, they are even more liberal but the public is pushing back against their message, and that makes them very angry that they are no longer looked upon as the elite they once were. Just listen to some of the rants Hollywood lefties go on and you will come away with a sense that they are like unhinged little children throwing a temper tantrum because they aren't getting their way than someone who is trying to push a political or social message. They appear pathetic really. All that fame and adoration as well as the wealth it has brought them and yet they appear as hollow humans with no redeeming moral or ethical base at all. Their message: "listen to me you stupid people, I know what is right and best for you because I'm famous". Where have we seen that before in history? I think humans need hero's and leaders to look up too and Hollywood no longer delivers that in their movies. Social justice cannot be an all-consuming message at the exclusion of all else including reason. Today, the left has forgotten that if you have a better idea and you want to change society, it must be debated fully in the light of day, not just jammed down our throats with the message that "all life on earth will cease unless we embrace the message". As for Disney, old Walt would not be pleased. He attempted to create entertainment that entertained and made people see the lighter side of life. He was not trying to change the world thru the lens of politics. He would have fired Bob Eiger before he was even hired and then apologized to his stockholders for even considering the hire. It shows you how far left the company has gone today that stockholders continue to lose money and market share and yet Eiger is allowed to continue thru 2026. As Forest Gump would say "stupid is as stupid does".
The Swamp Fox is the story of an anti-government militia fighting tyranny. They snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. The current owners of Disney are embarrassed by it. It was must see TV in 1959.
I am prout to have a relative who was an officer under The Swamp Fox at The Battle Of Cowpens. A descendant of that relative was a Captain of Tenessee Milita commanded by his friend and neighbor Andrew Jackson, both in Florida, and at The Battle of New Orleans in 1814. A descendant of that Captain continued that tradition and countered Pelosian/Soeterion Mendacity in Washington’s District of Corruption on quite recent January 6 th.
I have ancestors on both my father’s and mother’s side who served in Marion’s Militia. A Captain and a Private. I recommend John Oller’s The Swamp Fox for the history of Marion’s Campaign. (I didn’t know that when I watched the Disney mini-series.)
"On the other hand, Hal Roach slyly made the Little Rascals (nee Our Gang) always included one black kid and he never was a token."
Billy "Buckwheat" Thomas and Eugene "Porky" Lee were friends on and off-stage. Lee was from my hometown, Fort Worth.
Kids don't care a whit about "color". My six-year-old granddaughter will play with any child of any age who wants to play with her. That often includes her 73-year-old grandfather. Thank God! At least some of us, including those who, like me, grew up with institutional segregation, can leave all that behind.
The heat from the board is probably correlated to stock price, so I would like to think there are fireworks behind closed doors right now, not just in the park each night.
Part of that is due to the political stance made by the parent company and part is due to the ridiculous prices for admission and everything else in the parks.
omg, yes. My hubby has a former co-worker that just went. (no taste, I know) They spent at least 10k on a week. Hubby figures more. We just cant even imagine......
The problem with being the opposite of woke is that it is just as unfunny as being woke; it doesn't matter which direction you're going if you are unwilling to be unserious about your position.
For once I will NOT vote. Why? I can't vote for any of these. Disney simply needs to return to its' roots and appeal to kids; and families who want to have fun and are not buried in their devices. Too many zombie kids in this country now. What happened to having fun?
Whatever happened to letting a kid enjoy his/her childhood?
The Disney pedophiles see kids as sex toys, not humans.
Which is just absolutely sad. When ever there is a pedo sting in FL, they always or almost always include one or more cast members from Disney. And Teachers too. It is crazy but the pedos go where the prey is.
MSM and Disney today are just making so the kids are confused about wrong adult behavior.
Socialism in indoctrination schools k-college for the last 50 years.
Disney needs to return to the ground from which it came, dust to dust.....
I can't vote either but I still roared with laughter at the poll. Thank you, Don, for another post with great clarity. It's worth saving and studying. I'm pretty busy now that I have more clarity myself on what I'm going to do in the future. But I do think your writings are worth studying. I'm mulling an idea of a class for adults on political clarity. We will see how much time and resources God gives me to take care of all of these great plans I have. The cat and I will mull on this.
Recommended: R.L. Trask's entertaining "Watch The Gaffe," because there can be no clarity, political or otherwise, without rules about grammar and language.
I very much dislike the book's subtitle, the nagging "Penguin Guide to Common Errors in English." This is only partly what the book is about. Most of it is a sustained, positive message about how to speak and write precisely in order to make one's point clearly. Even better, the author's wit is superb.
WTG is confusion's worst enemy.
Buy one and see if it's appropriate for you. Used, inexpensive copies are fine.
UK EDITION only (greenish-turquoise paperback cover).
AVOID the U.S. edition, which is horrible.
The UK hardcover is acceptable, but the copy that I ended up with has a fainter ink density --- a publisher's GAFFE; "pitch-black" dark ink density is absolutely essential, given the book's reduced type size.
[Mind The Gaffe, The Penguin Guide to Common Errors in English, Larry Trask [1944-2004]; Penguin Group (2002 paperback)].
Skoal!
Ditto ditto ditto
I loved the play on words with Peter the Pansexual. I'll bet James Barrie would have appreciated that clever bit of wit.
I agree it would have been nice to have at least one unperverted answer. Perhaps he could parody the Dems by making Donkey (from Shrek) the only un-crooked answer: "Donkey the straight ass."
Illegal!
"I cannot remember one Three Stooges short that made me think, but I also don’t remember one that didn’t make me laugh."
CURLEY: "Hey Moe, I tried thinking and nothing happened!"
Today he could be a US Senator.
Or even President!
I would vote for Curly for President if they are successful in keeping Trump out of the race with their lawfare. Curly might even scare Xi.
Xi is Curly.
He mentored our entire government by the looks of things.
That obvious is it ?
All education and even thinking involve value assumptions about good & evil, right and wrong. Neutral is only an option in theory, because choices have outcomes, and different outcomes have different values.
We need more social support, incentives, for good behavior—as well as honest discussion about what is good and why it’s good.
More shaming of actual bad behavior would reduce the bad behavior, but many are now uncomfortable with shaming the two most common bad behaviors, promiscuity and crime.
"Promiscuity and crime."
One leads to the other.
sow>reap
What's the message in today's poll? Your cat didn't offer us any good or even amusing options.
Poll it again, Sam?
Very clever comment! I would enjoy raiseng an elbow with you. As I find that I would with Roseanne Barr, after I watched her interview of Tucker Carlson last week - a revelation to me that reality is as I have imagined it and that there are many more smart people out there than I have dared to hope.
SCORE!
What? “Dumbo”, “gay”, “elephant”. A sly description of today’s RINO Party. Well done, Don.
Republicans as RINO are driven by personal accretion of money and power as is the case with Holywood.
C CHRISTY
Gonna need a bigger tent.
Perhaps the animals (as furries) could identify as humans and Bambi could dress like back woodsman.
70 years later I’m beginning to think that maybe that Senator Joseph McCarthy was right.
He was not only right about Hollywood, he was also right about communists in our government.
He was the Marjorie Taylor Greene of his time: Right message Wrong Messanger!
He was.
The purifying passage of time has provided the courtroom surety of this, as it has revealed with killing JFK, and a magnitude of Uniparty machinations over the years. Lies come and go: truth accumulates.
Maybe the real problem is that society wants a Disney to instill values. Disney and Hollywood are purveyors of entertainment. Parents need to be the ones to teach values. But if you expect a value to be projected on the big screen, that is one thing, but don't expect that your child will absorb it unless you live your life projecting those same values. And messages are mixed in every story, and even adults can't always discern what they are. If you are looking to Hollywood for values, boy are you looking in the wrong place. Maybe the real goal for our society should be to value the role of the mother and father in raising a worthwhile citizen who contributes to that overall sense of well being that a nation should experience. We should be proud of our place in this world. Policing it? No Leading by example? yes. If you want Disney or any other entertainment group to give your child the key to a good life then I suggest as Dr Laura so wisely said, "Get a cat"; you really don't deserve to be a parent, it is the most difficult and most valuable job that God assigned to us.
Nicely said. The great thing about the movies of the past is that they reinforced the values that the parents instilled in their kids. When outside influences align with traditional family values, you end up with a civilized society that works. On the other hand, if you see the hateful values children in Gaza are taught by Hamas and their parents, you get a society that will eventually destroy itself.
Positive parental values were also reinforced by our TV shows "back in the day"
My three sons or Ozzie and Harriet?
A-FREAKIN'-MEN!!
Well said Lady C. .
My poll answer: None of the above.
I am astounded that Disney is not recognizing how it - in the past- blended unorthodox family units (Snow White), absent fathers (Bambi) or “differences in appearance “ ( Dumbo) with a positive, uplifting, hopeful message. That was always its genius I thought. Disney management doesn’t even understand its rich legacy and why it worked so well. They took the richness of this dramatic tension, and turned the movie scripts into banalities
Wrecking American just pays better.
No correct poll choices today Don. The only remake that comes to mind is Titanic. Disney hits an iceberg and goes down. There are no survivors.
Thoughts like that warm my icy heart!
Don, you are right about movies conveying a message.
For the last 3 years every time I see “a movie” clip of Joe Biden I see a person who has no clue. My favorite ones are when after he gives a “speech” he turns to leave and has no idea where to go or what to do next.
I’m sure others are seeing the same thing I am seeing and know they are watching a fool.
Agree. As a Senator, everyone strongly suspected that Biden was a fool. When he became President, he confirmed it.
(Not acknowledging the legitimacy of his *presidency*.)
Hollywood has always been a force in America. During the heyday of movies that today we call classics, the content or message reflected a sense of what it was that made America unique among countries. Even back then, Hollywood was very liberal but restrained in their products by public mores. Today, they are even more liberal but the public is pushing back against their message, and that makes them very angry that they are no longer looked upon as the elite they once were. Just listen to some of the rants Hollywood lefties go on and you will come away with a sense that they are like unhinged little children throwing a temper tantrum because they aren't getting their way than someone who is trying to push a political or social message. They appear pathetic really. All that fame and adoration as well as the wealth it has brought them and yet they appear as hollow humans with no redeeming moral or ethical base at all. Their message: "listen to me you stupid people, I know what is right and best for you because I'm famous". Where have we seen that before in history? I think humans need hero's and leaders to look up too and Hollywood no longer delivers that in their movies. Social justice cannot be an all-consuming message at the exclusion of all else including reason. Today, the left has forgotten that if you have a better idea and you want to change society, it must be debated fully in the light of day, not just jammed down our throats with the message that "all life on earth will cease unless we embrace the message". As for Disney, old Walt would not be pleased. He attempted to create entertainment that entertained and made people see the lighter side of life. He was not trying to change the world thru the lens of politics. He would have fired Bob Eiger before he was even hired and then apologized to his stockholders for even considering the hire. It shows you how far left the company has gone today that stockholders continue to lose money and market share and yet Eiger is allowed to continue thru 2026. As Forest Gump would say "stupid is as stupid does".
The Swamp Fox is the story of an anti-government militia fighting tyranny. They snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. The current owners of Disney are embarrassed by it. It was must see TV in 1959.
I am prout to have a relative who was an officer under The Swamp Fox at The Battle Of Cowpens. A descendant of that relative was a Captain of Tenessee Milita commanded by his friend and neighbor Andrew Jackson, both in Florida, and at The Battle of New Orleans in 1814. A descendant of that Captain continued that tradition and countered Pelosian/Soeterion Mendacity in Washington’s District of Corruption on quite recent January 6 th.
I have ancestors on both my father’s and mother’s side who served in Marion’s Militia. A Captain and a Private. I recommend John Oller’s The Swamp Fox for the history of Marion’s Campaign. (I didn’t know that when I watched the Disney mini-series.)
It was a hoot, too.
Mickey’s voice gayv him away…..
"On the other hand, Hal Roach slyly made the Little Rascals (nee Our Gang) always included one black kid and he never was a token."
Billy "Buckwheat" Thomas and Eugene "Porky" Lee were friends on and off-stage. Lee was from my hometown, Fort Worth.
Kids don't care a whit about "color". My six-year-old granddaughter will play with any child of any age who wants to play with her. That often includes her 73-year-old grandfather. Thank God! At least some of us, including those who, like me, grew up with institutional segregation, can leave all that behind.
These Dog Breakfasts always tank…Here is a real honest to Goodness Question. Is there not a Board of Directors they need to account too?
What’s up with that?
The heat from the board is probably correlated to stock price, so I would like to think there are fireworks behind closed doors right now, not just in the park each night.
And people are not going to the Disney parks like they used to, at least in this country.
Part of that is due to the political stance made by the parent company and part is due to the ridiculous prices for admission and everything else in the parks.
"...and everything else in the parks." - including mustachioed guys in dresses and eye shadow "helping" little girls to dress as princesses...
omg, yes. My hubby has a former co-worker that just went. (no taste, I know) They spent at least 10k on a week. Hubby figures more. We just cant even imagine......
Obviously they don't think they have an obligation to the stockholders!
Really outstanding column today, Don. The poll, not so much. But funny anyway - see the first comments.
It did not pan out as I had hoped
Well you could suggest Dumbo as the new GOP elephant. Then they would at least be amusing.
Dumbo does not deserve the insult.
I'll grant you that.
Ouch. Hilarious, but ouch.
The problem with being the opposite of woke is that it is just as unfunny as being woke; it doesn't matter which direction you're going if you are unwilling to be unserious about your position.
It was pun reading it.