Lost

I triied to watch the "Lost" season finale tonight, but as it did early in the year, it lost me. I was bummed by the unconscionable number of commercials and useless fodder in the screenplay. I was constantly aware that I was watching a TV show. The writer's manipulations were just stupid. There is no integrity of character; everyone changes thier behavior every week. The plot went very quickley from cliffhanger to "Jump!"

So much for TV. A vast wasteland and worse. I hear the Fox was the leading network this season. That about sums it up.

I started a new job this week. The only drawback to being a contractor is that the regular, stiving ass-licking employees see no benefit to eating with the hourly help. This would be no problem for me, except that due to the inclement weather, I have been stuck going to the cafeteria with a programmer who is from the great liberal bastian of Florida. He gets red in the face just thinking about the unreasonable Dems who are trying to block the appontment of conservative judges. It got a little scary at lunch today - I thought he was going to have a stroke because I said that the Republicans were every bit as evil as the Dems and have played thir own tricks to block nominees in the past.
He couldn't recall anything as heinous as the current Democrats who coyuldn't understand that the dictionary defines democracy as Majority Rule. If you ain't in the majority, tough titty.
I could not wait to flee the lunch room and get back to my cube.
Maybe the weather will clear up tomorrow ad I can go for a walk instead of getting harranmged by some fat southern redneck conservative.
(I might as well be having beers with George, for cripes sake!)
It dawned on me that those whose brains demand black and white answers tend to be conservative. Creative minds - with a high tolerence for ambiguity and an inability to accept binary choices - tend to be liberal. The comforting thought is that despite the current lack of character in moderate leadership - conservatives always lose - at least they have so far in the history of intellectual, artistic and political experience.
So maybe it is only some who are Lost.