Not much is known about the forthcoming Captain Harlock movie, except budgeted at $30 million, the most expensive ever in Toei Animation, a vague Fall 2013 release date for Japan, and a few of the people slated to be involved. The 45 second teaser trailer is the first official public clip, though clips from a 2010 pilot were shown first at Tokyo's International Anime Fair in 2010, which has a strict no photo policy. A 3:22 long camera recorded trailer clip was posted online in 2010, which might have been (one of) the clip(s) shown at early previews. Leiji Matsumoto's official Japanese website is dated, and the most recent Harlock press release from Toei Animation is from 2010, so the future of Harlock is fairly vague at the moment.

There is a narrative that runs pervasively through the conservative movement that combines the diseased threads of racism, worship of Ayn Rand, hatred of the social safety net, and gun fetishism. In this narrative, the violent and delinquent "takers" in minority urban communities are rendered lazy by the crippling dependency engendered by the modern form of slavery known as the social safety net, which is funded mainly by the "makers" in white suburbia. But when the takers start to outnumber the makers, as Paul Ryan likes to say, then there won't be enough money to fund the entitlement checks. When this happens, the social order will break down, and the desperate people of the urban inner city will invade white suburbia, which will have to defend itself and, in the words of Neal Boortz, litter the landscape with dead urban thugs.

The Political Science Department at Brooklyn College is co-sponsoring a panel discussion about the BDS Movement (boycott, divestment, sanctions) against Israel this Thursday February 7th. The event features Omar Barghouti, BDS co-founder and Judith Butler, prominent philosopher. The college has come under widespread attack for its hosting of the event, with a coalition of New York City councillors threatening to defund the school.