A funny thing happened when the creative types behind Scrubs decided to give up hope for the show’s popular success and instead just let all the weirdness hang out…
The numbers went up. And what was envisioned as an in your face last hurrah has turned into an almost certain next season.
The Bush Administration, while publicly advocating diplomacy in order to stop Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon, has increased clandestine activities inside Iran and intensified planning for a possible major air attack. Current and former American military and intelligence officials said that Air Force planning groups are drawing up lists of targets, and teams of American combat troops have been ordered into Iran, under cover, to collect targeting data and to establish contact with anti-government ethnic-minority groups. The officials say that President Bush is determined to deny the Iranian regime the opportunity to begin a pilot program, planned for this spring, to enrich uranium.
Taken totally out of context, one could make the argument that this is a somewhat reasonable strategic course. Gather intel, get human resources on the ground, plan for any eventuality…
But given the mindset and past performance of the Bush inner circle, this is incredibly worrisome stuff.
“I was shocked when I heard about the alleged rape. But I can’t say that I was surprised to hear that 15 of the 47 players on the Duke lacrosse roster have arrest records that are laced with alcohol-related crimes.”
Given the generally good times we’ve had out here in internet land, you’d think the folks you’d run a across would be pretty grateful that they live in a place and/or a time when and/or where they could participate in such a cool revolution.
You’d also think you’d run across a lot of people who have been seriously humbled by the amount of dough they’ve been able to accumulate in a very short time due in large part to the incredible luck of the moment.
You’d also think that in an industry that spends so much time considering communication and social networks, that you’d run across a lot of folks who are pretty cool and friendly when you meet them in person.
And you’d even think that, to a certain extent, since a lot of us were nerds who weren’t all that popular in the pre-web days that there’d be a pretty serious effort to treat others with a bit of dignity.
Ah Yeah, you’d think.
According to this story scientists have found “fossils of a 375-million-year-old species of ancient fish found north of the Arctic Circle [that fills] an evolutionary gap in the transition between water and land animals.”
They still haven’t been able to find any evolutionary link between the rest of us and Kansas.
