Post 144

Ok... I had this big long post about the guys from American Idol and who I thought looked like who...

But you know sometimes it just doesn't feel right... and this one didn't.  So you don't get to see my post about how one of them looked like Joey Tribbiani and how one looked like John Travolta from 1975 and how one looked like Yukon Cornelius ... Sorry.

Anyway...

Today in apostrophe abuse we have...

Uhh... either the Gold Pro is doing something or the Gold Pro has something...

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So we started watching Torchwood...  I'm only up to Episode 8 so...

For those who don't know... Torchwood is a BBC show that is a spin-off of Doctor Who.  It features a team of operatives of the Torchwood Institute, a secret organization founded by Queen Victoria to deal with extraterrestrial issues after she has an encounter with The Doctor (Torchwood is an anagram for Doctor Who).  This particular team, Torchwood 2, is centered in Cardiff Wales because... BCC Wales is the one that produces the series... actually it's because there is supposedly a time/rift/whatever centered in Cardiff.

Anyway the head of Torchwood 2 is Captain Jack Harkness, an immortal guy who used to travel in time and settled on Earth in the 1940s.  He's very suave, all the women (and a lot of men) swoon at his mere glance and dresses in 1940s style.

In the first episode, Jack recruits Gwen Cooper, a police officer from Cardiff... Gwen is "normal"... she doesn't believe in aliens, is down to earth, has a fiance... Yeah normal is going to change soon...










Other members of the team are Owen Harper, a doctor, who is for the most part an arrogant ass... He's a womanizer who we see in the first episode using alien technology to get a woman to want to fuck him.  When her boyfriend comes along and is about to kick Owen's ass... Owen uses the technology on him to and presumably the three go someplace and do it.  Owen and Gwen get it on with some incredibly sexy dirty talk in the woods in the episode Countrycide.

Toshiko Sato is the tech guru of the team... She secrets is in love with Owen who is completely oblivious of it.  She ends up having some nice lesbian sex with an alien in the episode Greeks Bearing Gifts.

The last of the crew (at least so far) is Ianto Jones... We don't know much about him except he had a girlfriend who was partially converted to a Cyberman during the Battle of Canary Wharf where Torchwood 1 was destroyed.  Anyway, Ianto is the admin of the group...

Anyway Torchwood is is a lot like Doctor Who... except for mature audiences.  It's much more sexual, everyone is fucking everyone else... much more gory, the episode Countrycide involved a village that murdered and butchered strangers for food complete with human carcasses... just much more everything... they're more likely to just kill an alien for no reason other than it's an alien.

Supposedly it gets better after the first season... we'll see...

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So over in Libya they're beating the hell out of each other...  Here's my take... and it may surprise you...

Everyone is saying "ZOMG We've got to do something!!!" but really, in my not so humble opinion, we need to make sure it's a fair fight... and so far the rebels have been doing a pretty good job themselves... they've got like 1/2 the country (at least half of the populated part, half of the country is actually the Sahara Desert)... Have they had some setbacks as Gaddafi's forces have struck back? Sure, but really what did you expect?  And not to defend the bastard, but all this "I can't believe they're firing on civilians?!?!" uhhh... they're trying to storm a military base (well some of them at least) what did you expect the military to do?  If a mass of civilians tried to storm Ft Dix do you think the Army would just roll over and say "Oh you're civilians... take everything you want!"  No... they'd defend it.  Now of course just firing indiscriminantly on peaceful protesters... yeah bad bad BAD.  Firing on protesters trying to storm a secure location... kinda understandable.

Anyway... if it gets out of hand, sure set up the no-fly zone... but right now... let's see how this plays out.

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Charlie Sheen has ceased to be funny and is just annoying now.  Seriously Charlie... you called Duckie a troll?  DUCKIE???

I mean c'mon... you called Duckie a troll because after you got his job taken away from him (one where you make a shit-ton more than him) he had the GALL to not call you and say "Thanks Bro, You know I didn't need that work anyway... after all my resume was PADDED with awesome rolls in between Pretty in Pink and Two and a Half Men.... Have fun with your whores and I'll chat with you later bro... BTW, can I get a cameo on your new online video blog?"

Prick.

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So the Wisconsin Senate passed the anti-union bill... After weeks of insisting the need to end collective bargaining for public unions was only a fiscal matter... and since it was a fiscal matter it required 2/3 of the Wisconsin Senate to be present to vote on it... they decided to do what they had claimed they wouldn't do... the severed the anti-union portion of the bill and passed it 18-1.

Of course now it has to be sent back to the Wisconsin House because they passed the measure when it was part of the whole budget... which they did in another spectacularly shitty fashion a few weeks ago... See the Democrats there were using procedural methods to block the bill... then suddenly around midnight one night the Republicans gave "the signal" and opened the measure for a vote, all the Republicans votes then like literally seconds later they closed the vote before the Democrats had a chance to vote.

Now it'll undoubtedly it'll go back to the Wisconsin House where the Republicans will have to do some more legal gymnastics to get it passed...

Ok... I'm gonna scoot...