DEFENDING OSCAR
"Are you as sickened as I am by the prospect of the Oscars tonight?" asks Andrew Sullivan. No, I'm not. If anything, I'm bummed to miss the fashion show. The movies are the great and enduring art of our civilization, the very civilization our soldiers are fighting to defend. The pleasure of the movies is as legitimate in wartime as it is in peace. Sure, the movie stars are mostly geopolitical idiots. But the Oscars celebrate their art, not their politics. Leave the attacks on pleasure to the Islamofascists, Andrew. Hollywood is their enemy, not ours. [Posted 3/23.]