Mood:  spacey

so, miss spider just played the spiders-need-to-eat-their-webs-so-as-not-to-make-a-horrible-mess bit and i was doing my best to ignore it, but damn it if i heard that crap about how the web stuff had to be eaten to clean up. and, before i get on with my point, it was very clear in context of the show's structure that it was a silly take on recycling, not something actually useful. that being said, apparently spiders will sometimes eat pieces of their web (broken bits and whatnot) to conserve silk

but, damn it, it's still not good to let all the dogs out of the pound at once (a la dora the explorer) and fish should be allowed to eat one another (again, a dora reference)...

and, these shows need more episodes so they don't repeat all the same ones so often. hell, i swear this miss spider show only has like four half hour episodes so far (amounting to eight half-episode stories). maybe new shows should be regulated to once a week instead of the five days a week schedule

yeah, i'm talking about cartoon schedules on nickelodeon, but remember i've got three kids, two of them here right now watching their morning cartoons (usually dora, blue's clues then miss spider or another dora (if i manage to get the channel changed to noggin before miss spider comes on (kieran and saer refuse to acknowledge the crappiness of miss spider))

anyway, nothing much to say today about worthwhile things. politics are quiet, as the election is over and no one cares anymore. protests won't do anything to get us out of iraq at this point and no one can think of any good way to get bush out of office now that he got reelected (and kerry conceded). and no one is willing to contemplate violent rebellion cause they'll be struck down before they've even amassed a good stockpile of weapons (a la ruby ridge or waco (yeah, i reference such obvious examples. so sue me)). i wish i could find the original source of a line someone referenced in the weather underground documentary (and which i'd heard reference before): if you make peaceful revolution illegal then you guarantee a violent one. of course, the Left isn't full of as many reactionaries as the Right; i mean, of course, not so many that would resort to violence. the Left would rather sit around and hope for a better chance next election. the Left is fine with sitting around watching reality shows multiplying like rabbits and simple kids cartoons grabbing onto politically correct crap (that the Left helped engineer, of course, though it's certainly gotten a little out of control) and wait for next time, even as the Right gains more and more power and has put itself into a position to rule the world. if history is any teacher (and, it would be nice if more of us thought it still was), then we can be assured this Empire will fall like all those have come before. thing is, won't things get worse before they get better? a popular vote (exaggerated or not by electoral fraud) just got the big bad bush reelected. foreign countries were supposed to be okay with america still because it seemed we didn't all support this guy and his imperialist ways. but, now more than half of us want him in power, apparently, and the other half are too lazy to do anything about it. so, didn't it just become opne season on america? if any terrorists (cause, we're supposed to believe they're hiding all over the place, aren't we?) were harboring any doubts about whether or not we were all explendable, didn't we just erase those doubts?

our administration will lie or blur the facts to support any part of their cause they like. and, we let them get away with it, because there's a little bit of truth in each lie (a little like i'll forgive that web-eating on miss spider now that i know it can happen in real life (how's that for coming back to my opening?))

how much more will we be willing to accept before we either do something or really all run off to canada or whereever? if we've got four more years in the direction we've been going for the last four, what will it take to recover?

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watchlist for today:

• jeopardy - tonight's the night, supposedly, ken will lose finally
• the rebel billionaire - seriously endangering contestants has been fun so far. i'll keep watching
• amazing race 6 - more fighting, more bad map reading and stupid decisions
• house - loving this show so far, though to be fair i'm not sure if i'll actually get to watch it tonight. will be recording it when it's on and watching it later
• veronica mars - loved how they didn't let the notion that veronica's dad isn't her dad linger and just had someone say it outright after only an episode since the initial clue. like house, though, i'll be taping this and watching later. i can tape two things and watch a third, and amazing race isn't worth keeping, so that's my "third"
• the daily show - back from vacation again and funny as always
• and i've got the saddest music in the world here to watch sometime too