Enterprise S3E8 - "Twilight"

This is one of those "what if" episodes where everybody dies (including earth) but we never believe any of it will stick for a second.

RATING: 69%

Identity Politics

White males have it super easy. When the ephemeral, utterly transient nature of the lives and happiness of the people I love gets me down, I find solace in what’s truly important: the skin colour of the group of clueless, struggling, suffering, slowly dying assholes I happened to have been born into, and the particularity of my reproductive plumbing. This one time the good ole’ boys in the government sent me a white cake in the mail. It was fucking awesome.

RATING: The privileged 50% of the privileged 74%

(Image from eeyore.astro.uiuc.edu.)

Wilhelmina Murray

As anyone who read the 20 bajillion comments I left on Glenn's recent post can probably guess, I'm totally in love with Alan Moore's Wilhelmina Murray. I think she's an even better study of the kind of radically feminine strength that Moore tries to showcase in Promethea, precisely because she's physically and emotionally vulnerable and can't just turn bullets into moths or teleport into other dimensions.

I believe that if we succeed at getting homo sapiens settled down and happy in the 21st Century without wiping ourselves off the map, it'll probably be because we come to better recognize in ourselves exactly the kind of qualities Moore has embodied in this character. Especially soul.

RATING: 98%--"She'd be cuter if she was a redhead," said the man-ape.

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Pessimism

A lot of people right now might be pretty pessimistic about things, but that's probably justified, who am I, Dr. Science? Anyway, what I like about pessimism is you're either always right or pleasantly surprised. You can be pessimistic about small things (Oh, I bet this brownie will have sprinkles and I hate sprinkles) or big things (Oh, I bet the United States will suffer a debilitating economic crash due to undertaxing and the funneling of money into the military and I hate debilitating economic crashes), so pessimism as you can see is very versatile, kind of like beer.

RATING: 77%

The End of The World

So let's not kid ourselves, at some point it's going to happen. Maybe it will be tomorrow and maybe it will be in five billion years when the sun finally dies out. Either way a lot of us are having fun trying to figure out how and when it's going to happen. On the other hand, a lot of us are going to be pretty bummed out when it happens, and that's really going to suck. Hopefully by that point we'll be living somewhere else in space and it won't matter anymore, until we find a way to blow that one up too. I'll miss gravity and probably a lot of other things on Earth that are really good.

RATING: 9%

Mind Reading Computers

Well there goes the planet.

(Yes I get all of my news from Hotmail's logout page.)

RATING: 26%