Let's see. What's on:

Police Academy (one of the worse movies ever made)
30 Most Outrageous Celebrity Feuds
MSNBC Guys traps another guy on IM
Top 10 Las Vegas Pools (Don't miss it!)
Flip This House (Because the housing market is just booming)
At the Movies With Ebert & Roeper (Even though Ebert hasn't been on in like 10 years)
MTV Special (Cause you know if it's on MTV it's Special!)

And to think there are people in this world who live without cable!

It's interesting to watch early episodes of COPS in which the producers tried to present squeaky clean looking cops who kissed their girlfriends and played with their kids then went out into the big bad evil world of policing.

It's interesting because while the producers try to humanize these folks and try to make us go, "Aw, he's a real type of guy." We see them at work where often they and their attitudes are the primary source of provocation in dealing with suspects and known criminals. it's hard to sympathize with a jack-booted thug who is causing his own problems. It wouldn't surprise me if proper follow ups were available to see that the injury rate of these officers was high as well as complaints against. It would be interesting to see how their kids grow up adopting these same attitudes. The high school bully and the teenage rapist come quickly to mind.

The producers quickly discovered that this approach was flawed and changed it after the first season. They knew that it was obvious to viewers that these cops with attitudes were the problems and were doing things that if they weren't hiding behind a badge would be considered battery amongst other crimes. COPS quickly moved to the talky non-threatening cop who moralized just the right amount. COPS never had the courage to show the police breaking down doors of little old ladies homes and harassing someone because of their age and skin colour or car who didn't have drugs. COPS has always white-washed the police activities and the growing violence used by cops against citizens guilty of nothing more than being in the same vicinity as the cop.

The police is a breeding ground for bullies and thugs with guns and batons whom a public falsely scared about its safety has given more and more leeway into thuggary and abuse.

Everything about the Olympics seems a sad and sorry story.

Let's face it the athletes are freaks of nature. They do not represent the average man and woman or even citizen of a country. Their contribution to this world is suspect and specious. So you swim faster than some others? Big deal? How does this improve my life or the world generally?

The media criticizes the Chinese for enhancing some visuals and having a girl lip synch to the voice of a plainer looking girl. But both these things are standard Hollywood fair and practice. Hollywood is all about false smiles and good looks and appearances clean and plenty. Even janitors live in million dollar houses on TV!

Then there's the most laughable and pitiful and saddest criticism of them all. It's all about Chinese politics. This from the same news media, if they can be called that, that worshipped every move George W Bush made. Every violation of civil and human rights. This is the same media that ignores that the biggest companies in this country encouraged the Chinese to block organizing labour in the construction of Olympic facilities, even threatening to pull money if they don't suppress labour! This is the same media that suppressed for years dissent and embedded themselves as PR reps for the US military in Iraq.

Yes, we don't like to think that we are like the Chinese when we put political protesters behind barbed wire or blocks away from political conventions where their voices will never be heard by those whom they would protest.

Yes, somehow when we suppress dissent, torture people, violate people's privacy and civil rights and even try to change the Constitution to suit a Political-Religious agenda, we think we are different. It's OK for us but evil of them.

Take a look around. See where this country is heading. Ask why politicians and justices whom are charged with upholding the Constitution treat it as no better than soiled toilet paper.

If you don't care about yourself, ask yourself if this kind of Corporate Governed Police State is what you want your kids growing up in.

And don't wait too long. The boulder is already in motion and it's getting harder and harder to make it stop. It soon will crush us all.