re: #347 Feline Fearless Leader

Saw an amusing FB post mentioning that the United States has spent an exorbitant amount of money rescuing Matt Damon repeatedly:
- Saving Private Ryan
- Interstellar
- The Martian

Maybe they should just leave him there the next time.

Not after The Martian, where Damon plays the ultimate ‘Purple’ character. Think about it: His character, Mark Watney, has the self-reliance and devotion to duty that decent conservatives value and seek to teach, he has the science skills dear to the hearts of decent liberals, and he has the resourcefulness and creativity that the decent of both parties treasure.

The only people who don’t like the Mark Watney character are Luddites who hate space exploration and Creationists who hate botany’s role in the development of science of genetics and from there the vindication of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution.