Revenge of the Geekth

Roy Odrosa observes what happens when the nerds at The Corner find everything they ever believed and held dear has been snatched away from their fingertips (despite the stickiness).

It's not pretty.

Springs onto the stage NRO Corner initiate John Podhoretz to pre-empt the fondness of his fellow fantasy worshippers. "Unbelievably bad," he sayeth, "I'm telling you this because movie critics won't," the Commie bastards! Following up he adds: "Evidently 25 years into the Star Wars empire, George Lucas decided he just doesn't like war... Inadvertently, both Lucas and the Wachowski brothers (who wrote and directed the Matrix movies) reveal with their brainless anti-Bushism the essential cowardly vapidity of pacifism." When challenged chapter-and-verse by Star Wars obsessives from the outlands, Podhoretz shrugs and, in the time honored Jonah Goldberg "anyway it's late and I haved to walk the dog" manner, says, "It's almost impossible to wade through all the nonsense on the Web to get to the bottom of this, and to be perfectly honest, I have no interest in doing so."

As someone named Anakin, or something, says, or something: "You're either with me or against me."

What will all these dorks do with all the Star Wars action figures cluttering their bedrooms as they whine, "Luke, Hans, Leia, you wouldn't abandon us, would you?"