Still True 

So it's August and I am FINALLY updating ! I've been doing NOTHING all summer and I highly recommend it ! The Presidential race is heating up, yet , while both candidates talk incessantly about security, neither one seems to have an interest in sealing the borders. Maybe it's because I became a citizen legally , but I don't see a problem with enforcing the laws. I keep hearing that there are jobs that Americans won't do, but, as a transplanted Southerner, it sounds suspiciously like an argument which might have been made in my region of the country a couple of hundred years ago when discussing picking cotton.
I do know a lot is being made of both candidates' military records (in large part because Kerry is actually running on his), but I'd like to think that what a person did in the last , say, five years, might be more relevant than a record from thirty years ago. I never served, but if I'd known that military service came with a camera crew, as Kerry's seems to have, I might have contemplated it. As a recovering addict/alcoholic, I have more in common with President Bush, which is why it's frustrating to me that he wouldn't simply say that his life has changed from what it was thirty-some years ago, and let it go at that, rather than releasing meaningless records.
If only we had a viable third party! Instead, we get loons like Nader and Perot (I actually voted for him, but I was drunk, so I have an excuse!). Maybe it's time for the Whigs to make a comeback?
Finally read 'The DaVinci Code' that everyone has been talking about, which was good, except that I had read a few years back a book on Mary Magdalene by Susan Haskins, which covered a lot of the same ground (and there was the LONGEST death scene in literary history, where the dying character accomplished more while expiring than I usually do in a week! That should be fun on film!). No movies this summer for me, as I am hooked on cable TV! And not even Premium, but basic! The FX Channel alone takes up much of my week, with 'Nip/Tuck', 'The Shield', and 'Rescue Me', all excellent shows with above par writing and casts!
While "Smallville' 'Arrested Development', and 'The O.C.' are on hiatus, there's 'Big Brother', 'Amazing Race', and 'Stargate:Atlantis'! All fun in their own ways. I actually keep giving 'Summerland' and 'North Shore' a chance, but they are populated with the dimmest and least likeable people I've ever watched! If only they weren't so pretty! (Both shows work extremely well without sound, though I have a theory that the supposedly-deceased parents on 'Summerland' actually faked their deaths in order to be rid of their creepy offspring!)
Still hooked on "Tough Crowd" and "Dennis Miller", two shows with extremely engaging and witty hosts. And looking forward to the marionette movie "Team America" by the creators of 'South Park', a flick I'll leave home to see!
Joss Whedon doesn't have any shows on TV at the moment, but he's writing one of the X-Men comics, and it's not bad! Still liking "JSA" and "Teen Titans" from DC, while "Another Nail" by Alan Davis was a nice look at what the Silver Age DCU might have been. "Supreme Power" , from Marvel is off to a great start, written by the guy who wrote 'Babylon 5', but, unfortunately, both major companies are convinced that the best way to increase readership, rather than offering interesting, tightly-plotted stories, is to kill off and/or maim as many characters as possible, as DC is doing in 'Identity Crisis', and Marvel with 'Avengers Dissasembled' (or, as I refer to it, Avengicide.)! Glad these same writers aren't handling all comics companies, or we'd have Archie in 'C.S.I.:Riverdale'!
The Olympics start this week! I'm actually pretty excited about that! Good TV! And, more importantly, August 28th is my Mother's Birthday! August is good.