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At its best, Fox is a mix of scripted and unscripted, high-brow and low-brow. "The Simpsons" can comfortably co-exist with "COPS," [Fox entertainment president Gail Berman] said.

*giggles*

I mean, not that The Simpsons doesn't have hidden depths...

Hmm. Maybe it's just me, but I don't find - While the panel led by Schlesinger blamed top Pentagon civilian and military leaders for contributing to a climate that led to the sadistic treatment of detainees, Schlesinger said U.S. forces in Iraq had behaved far better overall than in previous wars, including World War II, Korea and Vietnam. - quite so reassuring. Especially in an article about "ghost prisoners." The whole concept scares me.

The whole world scares me, lately.

But this is funny.

But Enough Politics. You know what else is scary? Supervillians trying to nuke the city you live in. Well, not scary so much as WTF, but there you go. Comics are *strange.* (What? It doesn't count as spoilers unless I say where I read it...)

Also, is anyone else reading Ex Machina? Judging by how overstocked the store was, I'd guess no. But I grabbed the first three issues, and it was really interesting. They dumped a superhero into pretty much our world, and had the world react to him as it so very much would. Well, close enough, anyway. And then they wrote recent history around him being there, and man. That last page was powerful.

I don't want to give spoilers unless I'm actually going to do a decent job of thinking of clever meta, so I've probably said too much. *Is* anyone else reading it?

Anyway. I should go and write something else. I've still got maybe a dozen and a half fics I owe various places. Le sigh.

I find it impossible to take seriously any news article that contains the phrase: the governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

It's the sort of thing futuristic fiction writers would put in their novels as a sign of the absurdity of their created world. I mean, really. My mind can't handle him as a politician - I half-expect him to reach behind his back and pull out gigantic laser guns in the middle of a boring conference, and then there'd be third rate special effects and the mexican representative would be killed by sniper fire. So Schwarzenegger would stand up, and yell, (and somehow not get shot) and then, like, go shoot some aliens or something.

And, ya'know? What would aliens think, if they were learning about us from our TV, and could only see the pictures? I think they would run far, far away. (Come to Canada, guys! We'd be all respectful of your alien-y-ness and give you free Mountie Hats!)

Um. Yes. I can't decide whether the articles I've read always have the whole thing - the governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger - because the newspeople find it as funny as I do, or if they honestly think people are going to forget; and be all, "Pfft. What do we care what an actor thinks about healthcare. Haven't even seen any of his movies on TV lately."

I'm just saying.