Terrible television

I'm always surfing for something interesting, or at least amusing, to watch on television. For some strange reason, I almost never enjoy a program during its initial prime time run. There have been a few exceptions, and one of those is Monk.

Monk was one of my favorites for the first couple of years it ran. I even liked it alright in it's third season, but it was noticeably weaker without Monk's original assistant. The new girl is pretty, and I suppose a decent actress, but the tension just isn't there. Anyway, I'm watching it right now because I have absolutely nothing else to do. Unfortunately, I have to say that it is now a pretty terrible program. I don't know where they went wrong, but I suspect it's the writers. It's just not very funny anymore. I can't imagine it lasting more than one more season, unless something changes for the better. Tony Shaloub is great. It's just that the stories aren't very interesting. Or have I just grown sick of it?

I've also watched the show that immediately follows Monk on USA Network. It's so terrible I can't even think of the name. It's pointless and I doubt seriously it'll run even one more year. Others that are to bad to watch, but I watch them anyway, are Blade the series and Nightstalker. Nightstalker is especially terrible. The moral of the story is, don't watch Nightstalker, Blade, Monk, and whatever the show is that follows Monk. You'll be glad you don't.

Dick Cheney full of shit enough to be commander in chief

I don't read the Washington Post but this headline, War's Critics Abetting Terrorists, Cheney Says, popped up on my homepage and I bit. God Cheney is an asshole

Vice President Cheney offered a veiled attack yesterday on critics of the administration's Iraq policy, saying the domestic debate over the war is emboldening adversaries who believe they can undermine the resolve of the American people.

Really? I guess the bastards are just going to have to be emboldened then. This is the god damn US of A Dickhead.

Cheney unapologetically defended the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, saying the administration would have done "exactly the same thing" even if it knew before the war what he acknowledged knowing now -- that Iraq did not have stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.

No, asswipe, it wouldn't have because the American people wouldn't have stood for it. I don't pay much attention to the "Bush lied, people died" crap, but this kind of bullshit from Dickhead almost makes me wonder. Come what may, 2009 can't get here quick enough for me. It's just a shame Bush and Cheney won't be held accountable in any sense other than the historical. The Democrats bear a huge amount of responsibility for the ongoing debacle. They didn't offer Americans a viable alternative in 2004.

Sandy "Sox" Berger for censorship

It's pretty funny to watch the Clinton people, Sandy "Sox" Berger in particular, cry over a mini-series, The Path to 9/11, to air on ABC Sunday and Monday nights. It makes me wonder why they're so touchy? To my way of thinking, only one thing matters where Clinton and 9/11 are concerned; Clinton failed to get Osama bin Laden. In Clinton's defense, we didn't have quite the grasp of just what bin Laden was capable of on his watch. Little Bush doesn't have the same excuse.

Funny weatherman's on-air roach encounter

I saw this last night on Leno. It's a not-too-macho weatherman's on-air encounter with a cockroach. Very funny stuff.

Jessica Simpson has big ones!

I've never paid much attention to Jessica Simpson. I like the Allman Brothers, James Taylor, Van Morrison, Bill Monroe, Mark O'Connor, John Mayer, and the likes, so my musical taste preclude me from taking her seriously. Ms. Simpson does, however, have a bodacious rack. I'm watching her on Leno and she's a gorgeous girl. Utterly devoid of talent, but what the hell. If I had a beaver that looked like that I could probably act right, more or less, for a couple of months.

DirecTV

Trading Comcast for DirecTV was a good idea in theory but it may not have been too smart in practice. I live in the rainiest city in the US and since DirecTV is proving to be iffy, at best, when it's raining, I'm thinking it may be a long year. Yes, I signed on with DirecTV for a year, and that's another good reason to consider not going with DirecTV. Still, I'm enjoying the extra religious and Spanish language channels I didn't have with Comcast. ;^/

Last Days on Earth

20:20 is running an episode entitled "Last Days on Earth" tonight. According to the local television preview rag, it's about a group of scientist discussing the seven deadliest threats faced by humanity. I haven't seen previews or read anything on the web, but I'm guessing those threats to be, in no particular order: rap, today's country music, liberals, conservatives, christians, muslims, and China.