What do you do when your candidate (in my case, Wesley Clark) is eliminated b/c he didn't have the backing of Iowans and New Hampshirites? I live in Ohio, and thus couldn't care less who is popular in those states. And don't bring up 3rd party politicians, b/c even The Simpsons touched on how futile their efforts are:
Kang: Go ahead, throw your vote away!!!
Now that we're down to Dumb and Dumber in November, it looks like this election is going to be like 2000, no matter who wins, we all lose (and, I didn't vote in that election for that exact reason). Mickey Mouse is looking like a better candidate every day.....
That's going on the assumption that the law is about justice, which it is of course not, at least not in the U.S.
Law enforcement here (particularly as it relates to traffic laws) is nothing more than a business. They will never raise speed limits, not b/c they care about your safety, but b/c it's too good a source of revenue for them.
If these road markers are going to clock our speed, then I certainly won't shed a tear if any of them are vandalized. With the exception of that little gotcha, I think they're a great idea, though probably not economical (not that being fiscally responsible matters to the gov't).
First off, I refuse to call Mutant X "sci fi", b/c that's insulting to all of the great sci fi shows that exist(ed). Andromeda was more like VIP, if I didn't feel like thinking (at all) for an hour, I could handle it, but you were never going to see anything worth mentioning.
I've never seen Firefly, as watching 2 minutes of Dark Angel had me convinced that the big four networks were incapable of putting out any good sci fi. If it's as good as everyone says, I may have to check it out.
B5 was pretty good, and I'm already sad over the impending end of SG-1 (especially if they screw up Atlantis, which I have a feeling they will), but I was rather suprised to see the end of Jeremiah.
Granted, they covered in one season what I thought should have been at least a 3 season arc, and then kind of lost their way, but it was a far superior show to either Mutant X or Andromeda. It was a rather dark show w/ interesting characters. I thought that Perry and Warner were very good, especially considering the cheezy crap that they've worked on previously. And almost every episode has at least one cool moment (Perry laying on the gas filling the semi trailer w/ exhaust to try to kill some punks, Astin talking a guy into grenading himself and his thugs, etc.). The only entertaining moment from Mutant X was from an early episode when Vicky Pratt was fighting w/ someone. They zoomed in on a kick she threw, but only showed a close up of her ass. I laughed about that for quite some time.
I wish they'd bring back shows like Jeremiah, Family Guy, Futurama, Farscape (though I didn't get into it until nearly the end) for starters. Shows like Andromeda or Mutant X should go the way of Odyssey 5, dead and stay that way.
I watch the news whenever I can, and it's rare that I see them address any real issues like this. On the rare occasions that I do, it seems to be pro-CEO like this one. 99.9% of the time, I get bombarded w/ non-news like the continuing investigation of that college girl in Wisconsin (she's been found, let's move on), which means nothing to anyone outside of Madison (I live in Ohio, so it's now meaningless to me), or how John Kerry uses botox, or Janet Jackson's nipple. You know why? Because people like Ms. Mieszkowski (the news media) are in no danger of losing their jobs to someone overseas. I'd say that the news media puts out a lower quality product than any other profession, so if I had a choice, I'd gladly watch an Indian on the morning news delivering ACTUAL NEWS. Wouldn't that be something?
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What do you do when your candidate (in my case, Wesley Clark) is eliminated b/c he didn't have the backing of Iowans and New Hampshirites? I live in Ohio, and thus couldn't care less who is popular in those states. And don't bring up 3rd party politicians, b/c even The Simpsons touched on how futile their efforts are:
Kang: Go ahead, throw your vote away!!!
Now that we're down to Dumb and Dumber in November, it looks like this election is going to be like 2000, no matter who wins, we all lose (and, I didn't vote in that election for that exact reason). Mickey Mouse is looking like a better candidate every day.....
That's going on the assumption that the law is about justice, which it is of course not, at least not in the U.S.
Law enforcement here (particularly as it relates to traffic laws) is nothing more than a business. They will never raise speed limits, not b/c they care about your safety, but b/c it's too good a source of revenue for them.
If these road markers are going to clock our speed, then I certainly won't shed a tear if any of them are vandalized. With the exception of that little gotcha, I think they're a great idea, though probably not economical (not that being fiscally responsible matters to the gov't).
First off, I refuse to call Mutant X "sci fi", b/c that's insulting to all of the great sci fi shows that exist(ed). Andromeda was more like VIP, if I didn't feel like thinking (at all) for an hour, I could handle it, but you were never going to see anything worth mentioning.
I've never seen Firefly, as watching 2 minutes of Dark Angel had me convinced that the big four networks were incapable of putting out any good sci fi. If it's as good as everyone says, I may have to check it out.
B5 was pretty good, and I'm already sad over the impending end of SG-1 (especially if they screw up Atlantis, which I have a feeling they will), but I was rather suprised to see the end of Jeremiah.
Granted, they covered in one season what I thought should have been at least a 3 season arc, and then kind of lost their way, but it was a far superior show to either Mutant X or Andromeda. It was a rather dark show w/ interesting characters. I thought that Perry and Warner were very good, especially considering the cheezy crap that they've worked on previously. And almost every episode has at least one cool moment (Perry laying on the gas filling the semi trailer w/ exhaust to try to kill some punks, Astin talking a guy into grenading himself and his thugs, etc.). The only entertaining moment from Mutant X was from an early episode when Vicky Pratt was fighting w/ someone. They zoomed in on a kick she threw, but only showed a close up of her ass. I laughed about that for quite some time.
I wish they'd bring back shows like Jeremiah, Family Guy, Futurama, Farscape (though I didn't get into it until nearly the end) for starters. Shows like Andromeda or Mutant X should go the way of Odyssey 5, dead and stay that way.
I watch the news whenever I can, and it's rare that I see them address any real issues like this. On the rare occasions that I do, it seems to be pro-CEO like this one. 99.9% of the time, I get bombarded w/ non-news like the continuing investigation of that college girl in Wisconsin (she's been found, let's move on), which means nothing to anyone outside of Madison (I live in Ohio, so it's now meaningless to me), or how John Kerry uses botox, or Janet Jackson's nipple. You know why? Because people like Ms. Mieszkowski (the news media) are in no danger of losing their jobs to someone overseas. I'd say that the news media puts out a lower quality product than any other profession, so if I had a choice, I'd gladly watch an Indian on the morning news delivering ACTUAL NEWS. Wouldn't that be something?