RE: Unattractiveness

Boasting about one's ignorance on a subject they profess to care nothing about smacks of low self-esteem and - well - ignorance.

Something tells me you missed the irony in Ann's opener. At the risk of being condescending, Ann is illustrating that one need only know a minimal amount of information on the nominated films to predict the outcome. The academy, and its "far-left agenda" make this possible.

But as usual, Ann does the best job of defining the far-right agenda as anyone I could possibly think of. Ignorance is bliss.

Simply illuminating the agenda of the left in popular culture does not completely define the agenda of the right. There is a little more to it than just opposition. However, it would be understandable if that was all those who are opposed could detect.

Maybe that's the thing that is missing in a discussion of Ann's writing between people from opposite ends of the ideological spectrum. One would need to understand the goals of the right to catch the more nuanced aspects of what she writes. If one occupied the left hand of the spectrum and only knew the right's "agenda" from what the leftist press and punditry told them, Ann would be about as subtle as a brickbat to the head.

And finally, to suggest that the goal of the right is ignorance is just plain silly. It is those on the left who are so enamored of government-run schools.

BTW, I had not even heard of Junebug, but on your recommendation alone, I'll be sure to look for it.