Indiana Jones DVDs due in November

This is a political blog, and I really wasn’t going to mention this, but as a personal favor to my best friend Maverick, I’m throwing it in as the last post of the day. (Mav, this is your official Carpetbagger birthday present)

As the headline explains, the long-awaited DVD set for the Indiana Jones trilogy will be released in a special box set on Nov. 4.

Like you, I asked my friend Maverick why this obviously entertainment-related news item should be included on a site that deals almost exclusively with politics and government. He explained there are, in fact, several good reasons, including:

* There has been a grassroots campaign working to get these DVDs released to the public, and my friend argues, grassroots campaigns are, by their very nature, political.

* George Lucas, as Mav put it, “is a huge Carpetbagger Report fan, or at least he will be when he reads it.”

* Two of the three movies deal with Nazis, whom we fought in WWII, “which involved foreign policy making decisions.” Apparently this is relevant because “we just finished another war.”

* The 2nd Indiana Jones movie was set in India. This apparently ties in, again, to U.S. foreign policy.

* The DVD set will cost about $50, which as Mav explained, is “how I’ll spend my Bush tax cut.” (My favorite reason of them all)

* And lastly, Mav has promised to purchase more than one of the DVD sets if Bush’s dividend tax cuts plan get passed and he makes lots of money in the stock market.