Vladi Wizard's Musings

I am not one that watches much episodic television, especially on network television. I don ’ t watch Lost, or any of those competition “ reality ” shows, or mystery or suspense fictional shows, such as 24. However, there are quite a few people that are big fans of 24, especially people in the upper echelons of the government, who see this fictional show as a great way to promote and prove national policies , especially during the previous administration. What I am speaking of is the hard on that the right has for torture. Back when I was in college, and majoring in the liberal ar ts (ah ha!), I learned that the entertainment industry (movies, plays, TV , etc) are primarily a reflection of society. We look into the little silver boob tube and see ourselves, though through the lens of the writer/director, to let us see things as they want to show us. However, with the current on-goings about our policies on “ enhanced interrogation ” techniques, (which are, let ’ s...

"Children are our future! " What a bunch of bullshit!! I know that technically that is correct in that as children grow up that they will be the adults of the future and thus more apt to make decisions and actions in the future. Well... no du'h!! What gets me isn't that it is the kids that we are looking to to save our asses in (fill in the blank here to indicate which field of world-falling-apart that is appropriate), but that we adults are passing the buck off to those kids of the future to do the things that we should be doing now. I am talking in general here, because it would be too easy to get into tangents on specifics which would do more to focus just on one class of problem instead of looking at the over all situation. This is a matter of needing to look at the overall health of the forest and not the specific condition of one tree. Too often I hear people putting great hope upon the shoulders of juveniles that are too stupid to tie thier own shoes. Our s...