Katie Holmes sucks, in case you didn't know

Shan and I saw "Thank you for smoking." It was, in a word, awesome. Katie Holmes, however: riDICulously miscast. She was described as smokin' hot with AMAZING tits. And as we all know, Katie Holmes attractiveness (which has gone to shit in light of recent events, quite frankly) lies in her cute girl-next-door qualities and she has no tits to speak of (although, I imagine they're quite full in preparation to nurse the spawn of Satan). Her acting was terrible but one does feel an obscene amount of joy when . . well, I won't ruin it for those of you who must see it.

In other news, I've decided my TV watching must revolve solely around the Law and Order franchise (not including the god-awful Conviction) and Meg Ryan marathons on TBS and, it should go without saying, daily Seinfeld screenings at 6:30, 7:30 and 11pm. I don't have much cable, as you may know. Oh, and I do enjoy some GDL on Food Network as well.

But I've decided our government is part of a vast conspiracy that includes pre-packaged teen tartlets and their eventual demise: Hilary Duff, Britney etc and the creation of those pre-packaged teen tartlets (American Idol) and other reality tv programs: Unanimous . .dear god.
Reality TV is just that: the reality to which our government hopes we will subscribe. And it completely pays for itself with product placement, which in turn makes American citizens fatter while the shows in question make us dumber. It's quite brilliant, actually, in a supremely fucked up sort of way. Anything fat and dumb won't attack you. Even a brilliant wild animal, when adequately fed, won't feast on a human .. .but make that animal obese (and thus immobile), stupid, and incapable of proper decision making beyond a mass vote in a faux reality via text message .. . well . .

And then there are the wedge issues that our government presents as a flavor of the month, be it gay marriage, or as the case of this month, illegal immigrants. Sure, while we continue kill off our troops in Iraq, let's send the National Guard to the Mexican border! Makes unbelievably perfect sense to me. Forget that labor by illegal immigrants provides a huge part of our nation's economic success or that, perhaps, just maybe, we should be focusing on the war in Iraq instead . .or, if we want to shift focus to homeland issues, why not look at the soaring numbers of teenage pregnancies and children born outside of the realms of a committed, loving relationship? (note, i didn't say marriage.) which perpetuate a vicious cycle of crime, lack of education and in turn, more welfare mothers. But instead, Bush, let's focus on the Mexicans! of course!

Fucking A.