Equal and Opposite

Ok, so I'm watching Battlestar Galactica.
And is it just me, or is it f-ing annoying?

It's like Kafka was an 80s emo who played every Wing Commander game and learned to write by watching daytime soaps and hung out at the gym and was British and somebody liked him so much they hired him to write a sci-fi show.

The cast is competent and the effects just get better each season.
The space battle scenes are great fun.

But then they throw in a bunch of Chakotay vision quest religious dream sequence bs EVERY EPISODE and make everyone seem half retarded by having them shoot random people for no good reason every now and then.

And they do that wonderful *sarcasm* spoiler cycle through every scene in the beginning of every episode.

Is Baltar more annoying than Jar-jar?

He certainly gets more screen time than Jar-jar ever did.
Baltar does more damage? This is debatable.
Baltar isn't funny looking and he doesn't really talk weird.
Balter doesn't make strange lurching movements while walking.
He does NOT, however, exhibit any of the mad science prowess necessary
to create any device of reasonable complexity.

Such a great story concept, such a waste.

Please great screenwriter gods, get a few fan-boy opinions on your
finale scripts. Steal somebodies fanfic, just write good damn you.
I can't forgive a few of those seasons, but maybe you can help
me forget.

No more after the jump.

Fun!



Just what I always wanted!

Visual medical dictionary with network graph display of related drugs, diseases and therapies.

Religion isn't dangerous... ignoring reality is.

The other day I was in a bar discussing manga with some Japanese guy. And I asked him if he had any he would recommend. He mentioned some story about a space race with Japan and America and China setting up bases on the moon.

Then he made some comment about Americans being stupid.

I guess in the manga (Moonlight Mile) America makes it into a cold war arms race on the moon. Pretty much mirroring our aggressive foreign policy of present-day.

Thanks Bush.
That's your legacy.
Snide comments in bars and the hatred of a billion people around the planet.

I think the job of president should require a few more standardized tests and a lot of humanitarian work. When I say humanitarian, I mean working and living in foreign countries so you get some perspective on how people view America.

Becoming a doctor requires a ton of volunteer work... why the heck doesn't being president require some of that. Becoming a lawyer requires passing the Bar, why the [expletive] isn't there a basic test you need to pass to become president. Certainly Bush has more power to get people killed than any lawyer or doctor.

Why the doesn't he have to live up to the same high standards of competence and empathy?

Government of the government,
By the government,
For the government.

Just filing taxes wastes 265 billion dollars every year in the US.

16 million people employed by the US government directly, maybe 10 million indirectly. (now that America is occupying other countries)

That translates to maybe 25 million voters with a vested interest in keeping government big and the tax dollars flowing. How can this NOT turn into a downward spiral of bullshit spending...