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Day by Day: On Captain America and Life
Thu, 05 Jul 2007

I'm still around, albeit in the mossy-coated way. Without going into details I must repeat it is truly amazing humanity has survived so well on such a flaky process as our reproductive system. The sheer variety of potential complications before, during and after are staggering.

Anyway, I do have a few blog entries written up quick on my phone but never polished and posted so I'll get them up in crap-form soon enough. Taking care of life is a busy thing of late!

One quickie comment though .. when I heard that They were going to kill off the comic superhero Captain America, my brain went through a few permutations and flip-flops until I ended up on - is this a comment on American culture? Are they trying to say that American Idle and its ilk are the top of what is left of a once prosperous and heroic people?

We had visitors from over-seas and a few times the topic of America came up, and I recall saying that despite their flaws Americans are good people. Sure they're stereotypically loud, but at the same time that loudness is often in show of greatness.. that Americans really are raised to want to do good and play Hero, and despite the governments attempts to lock everyone under a shadow of fear, its still a place of innovation where Joe Sixpack can make some goo dmoney.... without resorting to lawsuits. Well, maybe with the lawsuits.

Mind you, I flipped channels past American Inventor last night, a knock-off of the very good Canadian show Dragon's Den. In DD, folks pitch ideas to some rich lads, who bargain and shoot and usually toss the inventor out but sometimes take them under wing.. buy their idea out, buy shares, etc. It makes sense -- a sales pitch, and the rich lads are spending their own money, and actually make some intelligent commentary. Cool stuff. In American Inventor, its yet another 'Idol' type contest where the show can make a pile of money without having to reward but one person, and its really just a show to parade idiots around. They've distilled the slick out of Dragons Den, reducing it to a platform to play George Forman and The Hoff against each other.

So yeah, in this era of Teh Bush, Captain America really has to die.

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