The Kansas City Star has a new article on a guy who just doesn't get it. Jedi John points out the article, and here's a clip:

"Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones" opened this week. You probably already know this. There was, after all, some advance publicity.

The Star Wars series is obscenely profitable and popular. The movies have sold about $1.5 billion in tickets. Add billions for trinkets. And the experts are predicting "Clones" will add to these numbers by more than a billion dollars.

So, who isn't bubbling over with all this? Probably no one on the planet -- except me.

In my opinion, Star Wars has become the most over-hyped media event since Y2K. The movies have been consumed by Star Trek groupies and pocket-protector pencil necks -- the same people who collect action figures and store them in a glass-encased bookcase, along with their Beanie Babies and rare Hot Wheels. These people have closets brimming with inflatable light sabers.

If I have just described you or your son, then repeat after me: It's a movie. A fictional movie. It's not real. Deal with it.

If you remain skeptical that this is a national obsession, just point and click to any one of a multitude of Web sites dedicated to the craze. Visit eBay, for example, where recently there were more than 37,500 items for sale relating to Star Wars. That number has no doubt grown by now.