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‘Idiocracy’ a Fine Film for Friday’s Brand of Fun

By Jason Dick
Posted May 22, 2015 at 11:30am

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crdao-yNAIA  

Filibusters and FISA got you down, Senate watchers? Look no further than a fine piece of film masterwork for solace as you contemplate yet another busted recess weekend.  

Mike Judge’s “Idiocracy” has enough prescient political and congressional satire to make even those who had a beach getaway coming up feel a little better about what’s up in the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body. As President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho would say, “I got a solution.”  


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