Mitch McConnell accused the Dems of being obstructionists until he found himself in the minority and became an obstructionist himself. I’m sure he’s got some uncovincing explanation on how its all the Dems fault, as is every other evil known to human kind, up to and including using the last cup of coffee in the senate break room and not starting a fresh pot.
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Garfield is still on this kick where they think that being hell bent on being lazy and uninterested is somehow funny after 30 years. And it works! Yes! Ha ha ha ha! He’s lazy! A lazy cat! And he doesn’t even care! How funny! Tell me more ways that he’s lazy! He’s so cool because he doesn’t care! Haw haw!
We got a new comic called “Daddy’s Home”. Suburban dad with kids. I get the impression from the title that he’s either a stay at home dad or that he works from home. It’s not bad, it’s not good. What would really punch it up is if he had a talking cat. Especially one that was lazy.
Rex Morgan hasn’t seen a patient since 2006. He wrote a prescription and gave him a referral to a specialist. In that respect, he’s like a rock star who takes 36 months to put out 60 minutes of music, and it usually sucks anyway.
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I don’t know if you’ve ever followed the “24” saga. It’s pretty good, like an extended movie and less like a serial for TV. I’ll update you in the style of Joe Namath on “No Football? No Problem!” The action starts at midnight, and it’s nearly 6:30 AM, so just a little past the first quarter. But those bad guys have been playing a good game. They came in with a good plan and have been executing it well, taking the good guys by surprise almost every time. There’s about five separate but interwoven plot lines, and the bad guys are dominating in all aspects of the game in terms of body count and tactical advantage. Not to say that the good guys haven’t made some heroic stands. There was a small good guy victory on one play, but those gains were quickly erased due to that invaluable double agent on the bad guy side. The double agent is the odds-on favorite for game MVP. Not high profile, but very consistently crucial in the outcome of a wide range of plays both offensive and defensive. Until the good guys can get the bad guy out of their huddles, the bad guys will continue to lead. Coming in to half time, Coach Bauer really has to rally the troops and switch up his assignments on the good guy team, starting with figuring out who is actually on his team. He really hasn’t developed any formal strategy that is going to work against the ruthless and as-of-yet-unstoppable bad guys. But there’s still just under three quarters to play, and I’m sure we’ll see a good guy rally late in the 4th.
That’s one thing that always gets me about action movies. The good guys can make a hundred good moves and kill 50 bad guys, and still the sinister plan will still be accomplished if not for a last second extra effort and some luck on the part of the good guys. Using a football analogy, it would be as if the bad guys were in the 4th quarter with only one or two guys left on the field and were still not only keeping the lead but continuing to score touchdowns.
All those shouting bosses who want the action heroes to get off the case never bother to re-assign anything. They never say “You’re off the case. Go investigate this double homicide in the projects.” “You’re right, Captain. I should get off the e-Vil Corp case. It’s just based on wild hunches anyway. There are serious criminals in this town that need to be apprehended. Of course, I still harbor a deep suspicion that someone at e-Vil killed my partner.”
And, can’t one single sidekick ever, ever, EVER stay in the damn car when they’re told??? “I’m coming with you!”
“You’re staying in the car! That’s final!”
Yeah, right.
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