I’m glad to see Breitbart’s new blog Big Hollywood has lots of comic book coverage. I got into comics a few years ago. Always making fun of Aquaman, I got curious of what exactly did he do in his comics. And then I’d thought I’d check out comics from all the superheroes I knew from movies or watching cartoons when I was growing up. And it snowballed from there. I’m just glad they have online sites to get comics so I don’t have to walk into a comic book shop each week.

Anyway, it does seem that comics have about as much as a knee jerk leftism as Hollywood does, so it’s nice to know there are a few writers out there who would have Batman punch bin Laden in the face same as Captain America once punched Hitler. I read comics for the same reasons I watch movies and TV: to be entertained. I don’t do it because I’m desperate for lectures on politics from screenwriters and comic book writers.

I wonder if the Big Hollywood blog is going to cover video games? For the most part, video game have been a politics safe zone, but as plots get increasing complex you can see politics in them more often (I just finished playing Bioshock which sort of explored Objectivist themes). I would argue that video games have sort of a conservative gravity, though. Many games have an easily identified bad guys and the only option given to you to deal with them is shooting them all — hard to make that liberal. And while a game like Wii Sports may seem apolitical, it has winners and losers and rewards skill — so its conservative. Also, someone wanting to make a video game can’t be a pure artists; he has to be somewhat practical as a processor doesn’t appreciate art in its machine code and game play sucks if it doesn’t follow certain rules. Practicality always pushes towards conservatism.

Well, I hope video games remain mainly politically neutral. If I paid fifty dollars for a game and then got beaten over the head with knee jerk leftism, I’d be really pissed.

As the government contemplates spending hundreds of billions of dollars, a lot of people are getting suspicious. Were exactly did the federal government get all this money? I mean, it just doesn’t seem like there is any way they obtained all that legally. Now, if someone’s expenditures is way beyond their reported income, usually that’s something the IRS would go after, but I’ve checked the records and the federal government has given every single IRS employee thousands of dollars over the past year, so there is no way they’re going after the government. So, as usual, that leaves it up to bloggers to investigate.

Now, my first guess is that the federal government is in the drug trade. A pretty big player too. Still, they could be getting every single kid on the playground high and that wouldn’t account for all the hundreds of billions, plus I haven’t got any evidence to support that. I know what you’re thinking: “You’re a blogger; what do you care about evidence?” Well, remember, we’re talking about the federal government. If I start throwing around charges I can’t back up, they’ll come after me.

I did find evidence for one idea of how they get that money: A protection racket. The federal government extorts trillions from its citizens and their businesses on the promise of keeping them safe from foreign countries. We’re talking a huge percentage of everyone’s gross going straight to the federal government to keep us safe from these supposed foreign countries who pretty much never attack us. And what if you don’t pay your protections money? The federal government sends men with guns to abduct you.

Is there anything we can do? It’s hard to say. The police are all on the take of the federal government which regularly sends out money to all local police. We just have to keep the word out.

PJM is shutting down its ads sponsorship to focus just on its portal and on PJTV. Now, I make more money through Google Ads (and merchandising!) than my PJM ads, so it’s not that big a blow for me, but there are a number of bloggers like Hot Air and Ace who went with the exclusive contract and will have to find new revenue streams.

I always thought the best way for a blogger to make money would be to hock merchandise for an online retailer and get a percentage of the take. You can already do that with Amazon.com, but the percentage there is pretty small. I also thought it would be neat if one day some rich guy just said, “Wow! This is a funny site!” and wrote me a huge check. Rich people are always stupid and writing big checks with little thought.

For the first time since I remember, I didn’t watch the Super Bowl. Did I miss any good ads worth seeing?