This WSJ article is the best concise explanation of the causes of Great Depression II that I've seen. Why, oh glorious exalted masters, must we continue to endure F-you and F-me?

Farouk!
Farouk!
Farouk is on fire!

Hehe... underpants.

It seems this French dude, some French dude named Pierre Morel has been enlisted to direct the next Dune remake, another Dune remake on the strength of his film Taken. Which seems weird to me as Taken is a very different kind of movie from Dune. This is like asking David Lynch to make Dune on the strength of Blue Velvet. What a strange notion! And I'm not sure we need another Dune; I'm actually a fan of the Sci-Fi Channel's miniseries version, which gave the story enough time to develop properly (not to mention a great soundtrack). Another theatrical version will have to be condensed, squashed, flattened, and made squishy. That's just an injustice to the source material. How about just making an advertisement with some person, some Frenchman maybe, going, "You know what's a really good book that you should read? Dune."

And lo we did behold the high priest upon his altar, flanked by his trained beasts: the gargoyle to his left, and the troll to his right. And we did consume of fermented spirits upon signals from the beasts: as the gargoyle nodded his head to words issued by the high priest, we did consume; and as the troll exuded smirks is a self-satisfied manner, we too did consume. And as the gathered crowds of demons, the blue demons of the sky, and the red demons of the earth, did clamor in approval, and did grumble in censure at the words of the high priest, we did consume. And there was great consuming, and the state of our drunkenness was strong. But lo we did not rest easy that night.