As someone who mostly enjoys the various Treks as cultural funhouse mirrors, I just want to note that miniskirts, phasers set to kill, and action heros getting beatings (instead of dishing them out) are in. And of course, sex as the primary metaphor for cultural exchange. Or, once you go green, you never go back. And: Ohhhhh, green sugar, how come you taste so good?
A couple of questions:
Why doesn't anyone on Earth or Vulcan just shoot at the dang drill? It looks pretty flimsy hanging up there in orbit.
Man, that dude is quick to get mad at Spock. If he just took his time and blew up Earth, he could totally have killed Spock later. It's not like anyone was ever going to shoot down his giant, slow, flimsy, industrial space-mining drill.
Wouldn't a black hole started right next to a planet wipe it out just as thoroughly as one dropped into the planet's core? Why mess around with a drill at all, even? Just drop a black hole bomb, then go kill Spock.
Finally, I saw previews for Terminator 8, Transformers 8, and GI Joe. They all kind of looked the same, and then, I remembered what movie I was seeing. Are we really that drained of filmable Science Fiction ideas?
Last week I was being appalled by the police response in Denver, and the treatment of protesters by the Democratic party. Well, it's ideologically reassuring to know that the Republicans can always be more repressive. That's the pressure of going second, I guess... you always have to do more.
What do you bet...
Libby appeals, remains out of jail. Appeal process takes at least 2 years. Bush pardons him in January of '09.
Any takers?
I just want to say that the Making Light posts on emergency medicine fall right into my "most forwarded webpages" queue. I think they're fascinating. Though I am not an EMT or a frequent customer of Emergency Medicine, I can't help a fascination to what I would do under stress, in a pressure situation, and these posts call that kind of crisis up vividly.
I should add, "... without making me feel all alt.tasteless voyeuristic."
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