Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Sarah Palin Makes Steven Seagal Relevant

Since I have been talking about this scene for years and most people respond with some combination of disbelief and disinterest, I am happy to finally have a reason to show everyone the now-not-so-insane-seeming last scene of "On Deadly Ground," in which Steven Seagal gives an environmental rant in which he accuses Detroit of hiding water-fueled car engines from us for the last 50 years. With the nomination of Sarah Palin, a self-directed 1994 movie by Steven Seagal in which he fights on behalf of Eskimos against a corrupt oil company led by Michael Caine now seems relevant and almost not like one of the very worst movies of all time. Because Palin is a particular type of conservative--an Alaskan who thinks that we don't need to protect the environment because there's enough to go around. And because this movie is one of ten things I know about Alaska.

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