As the American people appear all but prepared to end our war on marijuana once and for all, the federal government is busy doubling down on the even-more-mindless battle against people who use the drug medicinally.
But the mindless political battles over immigration are slowing this rebound, because immigrants are a major driving force behind this country's innovation.
Our final winner belongs to a group of native nations that have been battling the mindless Canadian government as it seeks to prioritize industrial greed over long-term social and environmental safety.
At a mining colony on the planet Mars, a group of cops led by Ms. Henstridge and a crew of bad guys fronted by Ice Cube do battle with a mindless pack of human miners possessed by the spirit of the planet.
The sometimes impressive visual effects make these battles entertaining, in a mindless way, but it's impossible to work up any feeling about them.
In the movie The Dark Knight Rises, Batman is a heroic figure that battles the forces of anarchy and mindless violence to protect the people of Gotham.
The talent, knowledge, and ingenuity required to make just one of the battle scenes in that film, or one mindless James Bond chase sequence, interchangeable in memory with almost any other Bond chase sequence, would drain the resources of many universities.
With no big ideological battles to fight any more, politics would just become one mindless thing after another.
You get to drive a tank and lead your forces into battle, and this is enough to make for some mindless entertainment.
They were public enemy No. 1 in his relentless battle against what he was fond of calling "the filth, sewage and mindless bloodletting of the popular entertainment industry".
