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usda forbids mad cow testing because of industry implications. Your tax dollars at work making you less safe, and some pigopolist richer. Vote republican for similar health benefits, and even more compassion.

Tom Lee is looking for movies that have a bomb defusal scene in it. if you know the name of a movie that features a bomb being defused or disspossed of, post to comments, or email me or Tom

duh. sorry Tom, i forgot to post this, i just found my miss filed note…

just saw the trailer for a new japanese movie which looks good. looks good is here defined as “has real cool set design, and retro future cool camera work too.”

I also just finished another Farscape marathon with Chris. Wow. You either love or hate this show, it’s never sure if it’s fantasy or SF, and never sure if it’s a comedy or a horror series. It’s also never sure if it’s a vehicle of true multiculti understanding or a sexist plot. It certainly can’t make up it’s mind if the future has dirt or not. And it does feature cute Aliens on a regular basis. It does have the best cinematography, Aliens, and set design of any SF series. (Babylon 5 still holds the best fight choreography prize in my book). Against the amerikan kabuki formalism of the Star Trek Clones, it’s a breath of fresh air, Bad guys kill bad guys. Good guys kill good guys. Space ship’s throw temper tantrums. Everyone has a foul mouth and is mean and self serving from time to time. Guns jam and blow up. Everybody farts, pisses and blows snot, and ends up drunk in the bar. The Spock knock off is a priest and a plant (anybody remember Ficus?) I keep writing about it because i like it, despite it’s myriad flaws, and yes it has flaws–from plot holes you can drive a planet through to deus ex machina, with stops for interspecies hybrids, some really clumsy plotting and segue-ways. (my favorite to date is the “i came on board the ship to tell you something very very important to the story arc, and have waited for an entire episode to tell you, because if i had told you when i came on board the ship, the entire episode wouldn’t have happened, and it didn’t anyway by luck of the space time continuum.”)

The flaws are more then made up for the stories and eye candy. Plus the animatronics (muppets, no really, they’re muppets) blow the snot out of Kermit and Yoda. Go rent or buy a few DVDs of it, at the very least to see how in space, everyone knows when your muppet has farted, what next years crocodile fetish wear will look like, why you should always wear condoms when screwing another species, how to deal with infant warship’s mood swings, why you should avoid hanging around Alien species whose males all look like the Crow, how to achieve photogasm, why talking to yourself isn’t always a bad thing, proper care and feeding of your plant based sidekicks, and why you should never allow ancient races to implant wormhole technology in your head…

Congressman Edward J. Markey raises valid questions (read that as obvious real fscking terrifying and easily exploited with out any effort right now). HEHEHEHEEHEHE. Kiss your privacy, and identity goodbye!

clearchannel has dropped Howard Stern from all it’s stations, out of fear of a new indecency inquisition by congress or the FCC. They also dropped their miami shock jock team, whose names escape me (i heard it on WBBM in the shower this morning). the Powell that runs the FCC should be very happy with the current media consolidation. Not only does it give him fewer and fewer masters to obey, it makes all the media outlets more and more the same, so that he doesn’t have to get off his fat ass to change channels, because they are all sounding and looking the same now.

Stern blames his being dropped on backlash from the Janet Jackson nipple baring at the superbowl.

This and the proposed anti gay marriage amendment almost certainly give shrub the election. The Dems will come across as smut peddlers, perverts and godless heathens for fighting either.