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Seems like everybody and their brother are linking to the Associated Press run-down of our curtailed rights that appeared in Newsday.

I’d like to think that this will go somewhere…that the collective outrage of the population will shake the foundations of the Bush “presidency”…but you all know as well as I that nothing will come of it, except maybe another shiny bauble thrown to distract us: another scandal, another “leak”, another season of American Idol.

Bread and Circuses, folks. Bread and Circuses.

The American people have the attention spans of goldfish, and the political awareness of a gnat. Given the fact that we rolled over and put up with an illegal coup without complaining (or have you forgotten that the Emperor Has No Votes?) we can hardly be expected to get upset when our Constitution gets just a bit more crumpled later down the same road.

You’ve got nobody to blame but yourself, America. You clearly communicated back in November of 2000 that you had no outrage left within you. You clearly communicated that you were complacent sheep…it’s a bit late to act surprised when the folks that you let walk into power are now trampling on the very document that you told them you didn’t care about in the first place.

9/11 has become our own Reichstag Fire. Go ahead and do a google search on that, America, since I’m sure most of you have no bloody idea what I’m talking about.

GMS

Well, crap.

Looks like the Sci-Fi Channel has demonstrated YET AGAIN that they have absolutely zero sense: Farscape has been cancelled.

They’ve demonstrated a singular lack of ability to showcase the program since they’ve had it: “Hey! Here’s an idea: Let’s take a tight-continuity show with an arc plot and show it with a huge mid-season break and absolutely NO reruns between seasons!” The critical acclaim and success that show has had is entirely IN SPITE of the way Sci-Fi Channel has botched its handling.

“Let’s give them more reruns of Jon Edward and back-to-back episodes of SG-1 instead!”

Feh. Stupid corporate bastards. It doesn’t even make financial sense. If they go ahead and produce a 5th season, that will take it over the magic-number 100th episode required for syndication deals, and then they could rake in the bucks…a fact that I will remind them of in the letter I’m sending to the addresses listed on the above-linked website.

It probably won’t help at all, but what the hell–stranger things have happened than a brain-dead television exec actually paying attention to their target market.

Wow. Participating in a letter-writing campaign to save a television show. My Geekometer just went off the bloody chart.

GMS

Looks like it’s going to be evening and weekend updates on this thing–I found out today that my filter at work blocks blogger, and when I try to use Anonymizer.com, it doesn’t work either, because java is disabled while using it. Gah.

Got this today from my Dad: The Mansong. Funny stuff, and all too true.

Today was my fiance, Laura’s birthday. Happy Birthday and I love you. (Cue the “awwww” chorus here, folks.)

Today was also the first day of 7th grade for my oldest daughter, Allie. At this point, I’d add “I love you, too,” if it wasn’t for the fact that I’m sure she doesn’t read this blog–because what could possibly be lamer and more boring than your dumb old dad’s weblog? Hell, it mortifies her enough when some of her friends say that I’m cool because I write games and I once showed up with 3 friends to do a presentation for her Social Studies class in full plate armor.

Somewhere along the line I turned into Embarrassing Dad. Not sure when that happened.

Worked a bit more on the novel today. It’s coming a little bit easier now, and I’m still jazzed. I think I’m getting it back.

GMS