When Judith Warner mentioned the 2005 film Idiocracy in her March 7th New York Times op-ed, I knew that I just had to order it from Netflix. Last night I watched it with someone I know, and the tears were streaming down my cheeks from laughter. Mike Judge & Co. made Office Space, which satirized corporate life. This is just as good. It takes on the contracted-out, super-sized, incomptent nightmare that is America under President George W. Bush through a Swiftian parable of time-travel to a world 500 years in the future--which is, of course, Washington, DC today...I can't begin to describe it--just watch it, and enjoy.
