AMERIGASM!

As usual, Jon Stewart gets right to the heart of the teabaggers and their dimwit messiah, Sarah Palin.
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Which Version of Reality Do We Get on Tonight's LOST?

LOST is on tonight. Yay! This video compares the original Oceanic 815 flight from the pilot episode with the new way it happened in last week's season premiere. It's cool. (h/t: Orbital Parlor)

Was Congressman Murtha Killed By Doctor Error?

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette had this little tidbit at the end of its article on the death of Rep. John Murtha (emphasis mine): "Mr. Murtha was first hospitalized with gallbladder problems in December. He had surgery Jan. 28 at the National Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md. He went home, but was hospitalized two days later when complications developed. According to a source close to Mr. Murtha -- confirming a report in Politico -- doctors inadvertently cut Mr. Murtha's intestine during the laparoscopic surgery, causing an infection."

Hmmmm...well, I guess it's a good thing Mr. Murtha died before the GOP could institute its' bogus "tort reform" scheme. After all, according to Republicans, doctors NEVER make mistakes and anyone who sues a doctor for negligence or error is just some tool of the trial lawyer lobby. But let this be a lesson. If it could happen to a high ranking member of Congress with top-notch doctors, it could definitely happen to you as well. It is rare, but once the GOP removes your ability to sue and recover damages, it will increase exponentially.

The Only Good Super Bowl Commercial of 2010

This year provided a good Super Bowl. But the Super Bowl commercials left a lot to be desired. But there was one that really got me laughing. This one:

R.I.P. Jack Murtha

Pennsylvania's longest serving member of Congress, Rep. Jack Murtha (D) has passed away at the age of 77. The conservative, hawkish Democrat became the darling of the anti-war left when he (wisely) turned against the Iraq War in 2005. He became a target for the worst that the right wing hate machine has to offer for his candid assessment of the war. He will be missed.

“Jack and I served together for over 30 years, and I have never seen a more valiant defender of the men and women of our armed forces nor a more steadfast advocate for our country’s unequaled national defense. Jack was a true patriot, and the Congress will be a much lesser place without him. His passing is truly a cause for great sadness, and our hearts go out his family and his second family: his congressional staff and the members and staff of the Appropriations Committee." -- Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA).

"While Jack was always known as a military hawk, he became a leading voice in the effort to bring an end to the war in Iraq, and it is in no small part due to his work in this area that America is now on track to removing all combat troops from that country by this summer.” -- Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA)

Attention: I just went ahead and turned off comments on this one.

Dr. Dog TONIGHT at Waiting Room

Philadelphia psychedelic rockers Dr. Dog return to Omaha tonight for a show at The Waiting Room. Opening the show are The Growlers. Tickets are $12.

Been Caught Cheatin'

Wingnut hero and probable GOP presidential front-runner Sarah Palin made a big splash at last weekend's Tea Party convention in Nashville. The 600 or so activists shelled out big bucks (Palin was paid over $100K to appear) to see their facebooking hero wax poetic on her "core principles" and her values. Sadly, Palin has such trouble remembering what those principles and values are that she had to write crib notes on her hand (I guess we know he got through college). Words like "Energy" and "Tax" were listed. She couldn't remember that?

You know Sarah, it's a little odd to criticize the president for reading an entire speech from a teleprompter when you need a cheat sheet to answer a few questions about your own personal beliefs. So, I guess Palin could now be described as a "charismatic gal with a cheat sheet on her hand." I hate to break it to her mindless supporters, but it is not very presidential to write notes on your hand. Maybe she should have just written "Don't lie" on her hand, and she would have done better. But that is just wishful thinking on my part. She always lies. You betcha!

Playlist from New Day Rising 02.07.2010

Here is the playlist from last night's New Day Rising show. The show airs Sunday nights from 9-11 pm central time, and streams at 897theriver.com.

The White Stripes - "Seven Nation Army" from Under the Great White Northern Lights; Warner Bros
The Raconteurs - "Consoler of the Lonely" from Consoler of the Lonely; Warner Bros
Brendan Benson - "Borrow" from My Old Familiar Friend; ATO
Wilco - "One Wing" from Wilco (the album); Nonesuch
A.C. Newman - "Dunno Much About Life..." from Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox; Merge
Spain - "I'm Still Free" from I'm Still Free; Diamond Soul
It's True - "The Bridge" from Cowboy Indian Bear/It's True split 7; The Record Machine
Rogue Wave - "Good Morning (The Future)" from Permalight; Brushfire
Retribution Gospel Choir - "Hide It Away" from 2; Sub Pop
Low - "When I Go Deaf" from The Great Destroyer; Sub Pop
Chavez - "New Room" from Ride the Fader; Matador
Dr. Dog - "The Old Days" from Fate; Park the Van
Dr. Dog - "My Old Ways" from We All Belong; Park the Van
The Lemonheads - "It's a Shame About Ray" from It's a Shame About Ray; Atlantic
Girls - "Laura" from Album; True Panther Sounds
Malachai - "Snowflake" from Ugly Side of Love; Domino
Cold War Kids - "Audience" from Behave Yourself; Downtown
Spoon - "Got Nuffin" from Transference; Merge
The Lost Fingers - "You Shook Me All Night Long" from Lost in the 80s; Tandem
The Hotrats - "Damaged Goods" from Turn Ons; Fat Possum
Kasabian - "Where Did All the Love Go?" from West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum; Red Ink
Elvis Costello - "...This Town..." from Spike; Warner Bros
Guided By Voices - "Hold On Hope" from Do The Collapse; TVT
Sonic Youth - "Cinderella's Big Score" from Goo; DGC

This Is Too Funny!

From this week's Saturday Night Live. I about died.

Podcast #34 Available Now!!

How does old that saying go? "It's better late than never." Well, I'm testing the limits of that concept with this new podcast. Yes, it's February of 2010. Yes, this podcast is the "Best of 2009." Deal with it. This is my first attempt at an "enhanced" podcast, so if you listen to it on an iphone or ipod, you should get some additional images, link, etc.

Enjoy.

Dark Stuff Vol. 34 - "Best Albums of 2009"

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Video of the Day: The Big Pink - "Dominos"

My Super Bowl Prediction

Though I honestly don't care who wins since I don't really like either team, I'm predicting a Colts victory in Sunday's Superbowl. They won't win by much, but I just don't see how the Saints (as good as they are) can beat them.

Who Dresses This Chick?

Her clothes may look like they come from The Gap's Good & Plenty line, but I don't care what she is wearing. Rihanna is the hottest pop star to emerge in, perhaps, decades. I cannot look away. Proud to say, though, that I still have never heard a single note of her music.

As Is Often the Case, Krugman Is Right

Paul Krugman has a great column in today's New York Times about how the right's new coordinated scare tactics and hysteria about deficits are eerily similar to the incorrect warnings about WMD in Iraq (which didn't actually exist). Money quote:

"To me — and I’m not alone in this — the sudden outbreak of deficit hysteria brings back memories of the groupthink that took hold during the run-up to the Iraq war. Now, as then, dubious allegations, not backed by hard evidence, are being reported as if they have been established beyond a shadow of a doubt. Now, as then, much of the political and media establishments have bought into the notion that we must take drastic action quickly, even though there hasn’t been any new information to justify this sudden urgency. Now, as then, those who challenge the prevailing narrative, no matter how strong their case and no matter how solid their background, are being marginalized."

Fits the Definition to a T

Hatefuck: "To have sex, especially in a rough manner, with someone who one finds physically attractive but personally loathsome."

Conservative "author" S.E. Cupp is mine. She is most definitely loathsome, and she's dumb as a box of rocks. But still...

Video of the Day - Minutemen "King of the Hill"

A great song from one of my favorite bands, Minutemen:

Senator Richard Shelby = Asshole

The National Journal is reporting that Republican Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama has taken the unprecedented step of placing a "blanket hold" on every single one of the president's nominations sent to the Senate. He is single-handedly blocking 70 nominations from going forward.

The reason? He wants pork for his state. He refuses to allow anyone to come for a vote until he gets the money for his pet projects in his state:

- A $40 billion contract to build air-to-air refueling tankers. From CongressDaily: "Northrop/EADS team would build the planes in Mobile, Ala., but has threatened to pull out of the competition unless the Air Force makes changes to a draft request for proposals." Federal Times offers more details on the tanker deal, and also confirms its connection to the hold.

- An improvised explosive device testing lab for the FBI. From CongressDaily: "[Shelby] is frustrated that the Obama administration won't build" the center, which Shelby earmarked $45 million for in 2008. The center is due to be based "at the Army's Redstone Arsenal."

So, the deficit hawks and anti-pork forces only seem to care about spending when it's not in their district. Shelby has no principles, no guts, and no brains. What an asshole. And in the interest of full disclosure, shouldn't the negotiations for this blood money be televised? When Shelby holds the entire country hostage so he can get bribed, don't you think we have a right to see this? Shouldn't the teabaggers be protesting outside of Shelby's office? Isn't this what people hate about Washington? When members of Congress put their own priorities ahead of those of the people?

Personally, I think President Obama should put everyone in through a recess appointment. The Republicans would be angry and whine like they usually do, but the American people, by and large, wouldn't really care.

A hysterical blogger who calls himself the Rude Pundit has some words on this situation. Here is a quote (you should read his entire post): "Yesterday, a barbershop quartet of assholes farted in harmony about earmarks. Republican Senators DeMint, McCain, Graham, and Lemieux held a press conference to address their concerns about the very subject, calling for an earmark moratorium and a balanced budget amendment. Said DeMint, '[I]f we have 535 congressmen and senators who still want their earmarks and are not willing to take even a one-year timeout, then we have a huge problem addressing our debt.'"

Podcast Update

Wanted to apologize for the lack of a new podcast for the last couple of months. Last December, my co-host and I prepared two new shows. One of which would feature his Top 5 of '09, and the other would feature mine. We recorded all of the talksets, and then I had to leave town for a funeral. Then we had massive snowstorms. Then something else came up. And you know the drill. Time got lost. When I sat down last week to produce the shows, I realized that what we had recorded in December was unusable. There was a weird static noise on the tracks that made it very hard to listen to, and I could not get rid of it, or even mask it.

So, to make a long story short, we are going to re-cut that "lost" podcast tomorrow, and I plan to have it edited and online by the end of the weekend. I will merge the two top fives into one long show. Again, I'm sorry. But you won't have to wait for too much longer.

But if you have yet to check out my podcast, now might be a good time to listen to some of the vintage ones.

More Party of NO in Action

We have a big development in the world of Republican politics today. The House GOP has released an outline of its budget. Though all of the details are not present (typical), a few highlights have emerged. First and foremost is that according to the budget proposal, we would not reach a budget surplus until after the year 2060. 2060!? Yeah. Weird how President Clinton left the country with budget surpluses a mere 9 years ago, and the GOP can't get back to that position for fifty years.

The big takeaway, according to the Center for American Progress, is that the budget proposes devastating cuts to Social Security and Medicare benefits for anyone under the age of 55. It also resurrects President Bush's failed scheme of privatizing both Social Security and Medicare. Since this idea was soundly rejected by the American people in 2005; and even with both houses of Congress and the White House, the Republicans were unable to advance this scheme, it seems unlikely this idea will go anywhere. For now.

This should serve as a warning to American voters that despite Republicans giving lip service to "saving" social security and medicare, their intent is to destroy them. These non-ideas are what passes for thinking in right wing circles, and proves the fact that conservatives have never met a failed idea they wouldn't cling to and try again. How is the party going to run for election in 2010 on a platform of destroying both social security and medicare, and not getting the budget to surplus for another 50 years? Lie, of course.

LOST: Season 6, Episode 1 Re-Cap

The final season premiere episode of Lost aired two days ago, and it is still sinking in with me. The intricacy and depth of the show's storyline still amazes me. It amazes me not because I didn't think writers were capable of writing such a complex and compelling story, but it amazes me that it has such a large and devoted audience.

At the end of last season, the "Oceanic Six" had returned to the island in an attempt to save all of those left behind. Some were transported to the island in 1977, and some in the present day. The ones in the 70s quickly met up with those who remained. They had joined the Dharma Initiative, and had built a nice life for themselves there. Those Dharma folks - Sawyer, Juliet, and Miles - found a way to get Jack, Kate, and Hurley in, but when Sayid appeared a few days later, he was taken prisoner. Obviously, the appearance of Jack, Kate, et al caused problems for their friends who had established trust with the Dharma people.

By the end of the season, they were on the run from Dharma, and were enlisting the help of the "Others." Jack, Sayid, Richard Alpert and Eloise Hawking (in the 70s) decided to follow Faraday's plan to detonate a hydrogen bomb at the Swan station in order to make everything that had happened (crashing on the island, etc) null and void. Sawyer, Kate, and Juliet opposed the idea, but went along anyway. The very last scene showed Juliet striking the bomb and it detonating.

To me, the more interesting storyline was the one taking place in the present day. Locke, who had been killed at the end of season four by Ben, was suddenly among the living. Ben, who was not supposed to ever return to the island, had returned. And Sun, who only returned to find her husband, soon realized that he was 30 years in the past. Locke quickly re-established himself as the leader of the Others, but his insistence on seeing Jacob immediately shocked both Ben and Richard Alpert. What was even more shocking was that Locke revealed that he wanted Ben to kill Jacob.

In a third parallel storyline, the remainder of the passengers of Ajira 316 (the plane that brought the initial castaways back to the island in 2007), were trying to find either Richard or Jacob to show them what they were transporting. They had Locke's body in a coffin, and needed it to prove that whoever was walking around calling himself John Locke, was not actually Locke.

Fast forward to this season, and we have two separate storylines, only this time, they are not parallel (I don't think they are anyway). In one, the H-bomb detonation worked, Oceanic 815 never crashed, and the castaways never meet. Basically. What you notice is that certain things are different in this version of events than they were supposed to be. For example, Hurley considers himself the luckiest guy in the world, whereas he had referred to himself as "cursed" prior. Desmond was on the plane, and for a time, was seated next to Jack. Locke, paralyzed and in a wheel chair, has a brief encounter with Jack who gives him his card and offers him a consultation on the house. There were other differences as well.

Back on the island, those same castaways are present and dealing with the aftermath of the bomb detonation. Juliet, trapped in a mine shaft, is rescued only to die from her injuries a few minutes later. Before she died, she tried to convey the message that, "it worked." What exactly "worked" is open to interpretation, as they are all still on the island. What year they are in is also unknown.

Meanwhile, Locke had convinced Ben to kill Jacob - and now Jacob is dead. Ben, shocked at what he had done and curious as to what Locke has become, sees firsthand who Locke really is. When the transporters of Locke's coffin storm in to try and save Jacob, Locke disappears, and the "smoke monster" quickly appears. It would seem that when the monster takes human form, it now appears as Locke, whereas earlier, it appeared as the "man in black" (see above middle picture). This man in black is a centuries old nemesis of Jacob, who has spent years trying to find a "loophole" in their agreement that they won't kill one another. The true nature of the relationship between this man in black (now Locke) and Jacob has not yet been revealed.

But is Jacob really dead? Hard to say. He appears to Hurley and tells him that he must get the critically injured Sayid to the temple, and he can be saved. So, on the advice of this phantom, Hurley, Jack, Kate, Jin, Miles and Sawyer take Sayid to the temple. Upon entering, they are met by a number of ancient looking soldiers who are protecting the temple. They take Sayid into their version of holy water and drown him. The rest of the castaways are shocked and begin to wonder whether or not they, too, will be killed. At the end of the episode, Sayid comes back to life and asks what happened. But, is he really Sayid?

Locke, in his current form, emerges from Jacob's statue/home with Ben. The attempt to stop and/or kill him was unsuccessful. Locke makes a comment to Richard that lets him know his real identity. Richard, shocked, is then struck down by Locke in front of everyone else.

That's basically what happened, but there are millions of questions. What year are Jack, Kate, etc in? Are both storylines real? Is Jacob dead? What does that mean for the future of the island and of the Others? Is Jacob now in the form of Sayid? Is that Jacob's "loophole?" Didn't the smoke monster protect the Others from outsiders? What is its real purpose? How do all of the initial castaways reunite? Do they ever? There are plenty more.

It would appear that the final season of Lost is going to be a doozy.

UPDATE: Blogger and communications professor Paul Levinson asks (and then answers) some of the questions on his blog.

Go See IT'S TRUE Saturday at Waiting Room

I'm giving you all an extra day's notice on this one so you can clear your calendar. Omaha's best and brightest, It's True, are performing Saturday night at The Waiting Room.

It's True @ Waiting Room 11/14/09

If you haven't seen the band yet, this is your shot. If you have, then you know what to expect. The band will undoubtedly be performing songs from their excellent, forthcoming full length album, and tightening up their live chops for their appearance at this year's SXSW Music Conference in Austin, TX in March.

Saturday's show is extra cool because Eagle*Seagull is also on the bill. A few years back, it looked like Eagle*Seagull was going to be the breakaway band from the area. It still might happen for them, but regardless, seeing these two bands on the same stage will be a treat. Also playing is Cowboy Indian Bear, and tickets are $7 at the door. See you there.

More Hypocrisy from Sarah Barracuda

I'm beginning to think that there is no greater hypocrite on planet earth than prominent facebooker, Sarah Palin. Ms. Palin called on White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, to be fired after he referred to certain activists as "fucking retarded." Mr. Emanuel apologized for the remark, and is convening a special delegation of advocates - some of which will be people with mental disabilities.

Why then does Sarah Palin say nothing at all when Rush Limbaugh said the following (after Emanuel's remark): "Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult’s taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards...So now there’s going to be a meeting. There’s going to be a retard summit at the White House."

Interesting how Limbaugh's much more offensive statement about "all God’s children with cognitive and developmental disabilities," to quote Ms. Palin gets no denunciation whatsoever. I think I have a theory. Double standards are nothing new to the conservative "movement." It's what the entire so-called movement is about: it's only wrong when a liberal does it. Typical.

Fox News Decides. Then Refuses To Report.

Like most conservative people, the right wing news outlet Fox News has a very difficult time handling information that does not mirror their own personal opinions and beliefs. Facts that don't support the conservative mental narrative are dismissed as "liberally biased" or a lie. This insufferable whining from the right has been a media fixture for the last few decades.

But Fox is clearly feeling the heat from its dishonest editorial stance regarding President Obama. The network has invested heavily in blaming Obama for the myriad of failures from the previous administration: the massive debt, the failure to stop Bin Laden and Al Qeada, the banking collapse and subsequent bailouts, etc. No matter what the problem is, it all started on Jan 20, 2009 according to Fox. The network has been heavily criticized for its disingenuous editorializing during its so called "news" programming, and Fox News president Roger Ailes claimed last week on ABC's This Week that his "war" on the Obama Administration has ended. Uh huh.

President Obama's job approval ratings did take a tumble toward the end of 2009, yet his personal approval and likability remained very high. Fox sought to stop that with a series of personal, below-the-belt attacks. They tried the old "soft on terror" meme, yet that failed because actual facts show that he is having more success killing Al Qeada and Taliban than his predecessor had. Furthermore, he added nearly 50,000 more troops in Afghanistan (a move described by conservatives before the announcement as essential, but after the announcement as "weak.") The network advanced some bogus story about the Christmas bomber refusing to give intel to his interrogators, yet we know as of yesterday, that he has been cooperating the entire time, and has given vital information. Fox, though, criticized this success because no torture was involved.

The attacks on Obama never end, and are getting more insane and paranoid (i.e. Glenn Beck's claim that FEMA was creating concentration camps for conservatives, or Beck's claim that Obama holds a "deep seated hatred for white people"). The network uses the word "socialist" more than president when discussing President Obama. It has been an unprecedented assault on a sitting president of the United States.

Last week, the obviousness of my point was made crystal clear to anyone with an IQ above 70 when Fox cut away in the middle of President Obama's historic Q&A with House Republicans. The conservative Congressmen attacked the president with their factually challenged talking points masked as questions, and the president calmly, rationally, and (most important) factually refuted them. It was a pretty impressive appearance without question. Fox cut away because the president was schooling Republicans and showing the inherent dishonesty in their attacks. That goes against the narrative that Fox has been pushing for the last two years about Barack Obama. So, the "fair and balanced" network stopped coverage of this live event, and instead brought on a panel of conservatives (with no one to "balance" them) to attack the president.

Today, President Obama is holding a similar Q&A with Democratic members of Congress. CNN, C-Span, and MSNBC are carrying it live. Fox is not. Instead, Fox covered important stories like, "Book Reveals Cat's Ability To Predict Death." They really did cover a cat story instead of the President of the United States.

No wonder so many on the right are so thoroughly misinformed. How sad. I guess that explains why the single least qualified person ever placed on a presidential ticket, Sarah Palin, is considered a hero and was hired by Fox News.

Got Those Juices Flowing Early in the Morning

Whoah. I just walked into work after a pretty weird experience at the convenience store a few minutes ago. Every morning before I go into the office, I always stop at a particular Kum & Go which is on my way. I get my coffee (and occasionally a Pop Tart) and head in. But today was different. As I pulled up, I noticed a woman parking her car in one of the handicapped parking spaces in front of the store. She got out of her car and walked in. Didn't seem handicapped to me.

I looked at her license plates, and they were not handicapped. She didn't have one of those visor permits either. This woman chose to park there despite there being a number of other empty spaces. While standing on line to pay for my coffee, the woman came and stood in line behind me. I don't know what came over me, but all of a sudden, I made an announcement to the store. They were witnessing a miracle!

"Look everybody! Just a minute ago, this woman was handicapped. Now she can walk! This is amazing." I continued on like this for another minute. The woman, rather than being embarrassed, got really angry at me, and followed me out of the store. I threw my receipt into the open window of her car. She freakin' lost it!

She began yelling at me and asking what my problem was. I told her that she isn't supposed to park in those spaces because they are reserved for people who actually need them. Her response? "So fucking what. I can park anywhere I damn please."

I corrected her. She cannot park anywhere she damn pleases. I then told her that the space was not for the mentally handicapped, but for the physically handicapped. Her clever response? "You're mentally handicapped." Ouch. Got me.

After another minute or so of mutual yelling and a number of F-bombs being dropped, the store manager came outside and told the woman to leave. He said he didn't want her business and to take off immediately. I smiled at her. She flipped me off. I drove to work.

Cosmo Declares the Thong Is Dead - Let's Get Some CPR For It

According to the new issue of Cosmo, the "thong" is dead. I would like to register my disapproval of this development.

The Republican Party Has Left the Building

As if further proof were needed to convince the American people that one of the two major political parties - the Republican Party - has slipped off the deep end into the never, never land of the extremist right, the results from the newest Research 2000 poll of registered Republicans provides all the proof anyone would need. The party has moved so far to the fringe right, that Tom Delay appears moderate compared to today's GOP (and Barry Goldwater would be called by socialist by this crowd). Those polled are registered Republicans. Here are some of the shocking results:

• 39 percent of Republicans believe Obama should be impeached, 29 percent are not sure, 32 percent said he should not be voted out of office.
• 36 percent of Republicans believe Obama was not born in the United States, 22 percent are not sure, 42 percent think he is a natural citizen.
• 31 percent of Republicans believe Obama is a "Racist who hates White people" -- the description once adopted by Fox News's Glenn Beck. 33 percent were not sure, and 36 percent said he was not a racist.
• 63 percent of Republicans think Obama is a socialist, 16 percent are not sure, 21 percent say he is not
• 24 percent of Republicans believe Obama wants "the terrorists to win," 33 percent aren't sure, 43 percent said he did not want the terrorist to win.
• 21 percent of Republicans believe ACORN stole the 2008 election, 55 percent are not sure, 24 percent said the community organizing group did not steal the election.
• 23 percent of Republicans believe that their state should secede from the United States, 19 percent aren't sure, 58 percent said no.
• 53 percent of Republicans said they believe Sarah Palin is more qualified to be president than Obama.

Honestly, I am flabbergasted by how far to the extreme right the party has gotten. Sixty-eight percent of Republicans think Obama should be impeached or are not sure?! Forty-two percent either support or are not sure if their state should secede from the United States?! Seventy-six percent either think or are not sure if ACORN "stole" the election in 2008?! Forty-eight percent think Obama might not be a US citizen?! And the most shocking...53% say Sarah Palin is more qualified to be president than President Obama?! An unemployed Facebook blogger who funnels money from her PAC into a scheme to buy her own book so she can get rich from the same idiots who support her?!

I'm sorry, but this is John Birch Society style paranoia and craziness. This is proof that there is only one sane political party left in the US, and it most certainly is not grand.

Lost Season Premiere - TONIGHT

Don't bother me tonight for any reason. I will be immersed in the three hour season premiere event for Lost.