Where does the quote end and the joke begin

I understand that this clip isn't as funny as the Palin-Clinton sketch, but watch it. Watch all the way through the really, really awkward parts.

Now, a lot of that was excruciating. Because half of it was directly quoted from the Couric interview.

Look, the bailout thing? I get it. It's complicated. We're not sure what the right step is, even as we move quickly to do what we hope will fix it all. However, the least I ask of the people who want to be put in charge of things is that someone types them up a cheat-sheet in near-grammatical English, not LOLcat. No, really. I don't care if she just said, "I think the bailout should happen because rich people should never have to pay for being fiscally irresponsible." At least that would be with the ENGLISH-making.

SIIIIIIIGHS WITH CONTENTMENT

I haven't watched last week's Smallville yet, even though the review is now days overdue. I couldn't not watch Dexter with feiran last night. I liked it well enough, though it didn't have that immediate punch of season two's opening, and I'm far to familiar with the series to be as blown away and sucked in all at once like I was with season one. Mostly, I was just so pleased to be rolled back into this world. There really is nothing like it. Battlestar Galactica has got the acting chops and genre interest for me, but Dexter absolutely owns every single aspect of fiction. The setting is alluringly familiar and alarmingly alien all at once, reassuring and unsettling all at once the way Dexter himself is. All the characters are part of the fabric of the show--you can't imagine the place where they exist continuing to function without them. (I do miss you-know-who from last season, though.) And then there's Michael C. Hall, who seems to have become a producer. Interesting.

I had to laugh at the end of this first episode though because ( spoiler! )

Superheroes!

Because the real news is too depressing!

-While I realize there's a lot of ghoulish fascination at work here, it's also pretty fucking cool: Blu-Ray covers for The Dark Knight. The cynic in me sees the prominent Joker cover as a means of milking more money by wringing it from Heath Ledger's premature corpse. The realist in me recognizes that he was the star of the film and putting him on the cover makes sense in that light. (You can argue that Harvey Dent was the equal twin-star--heh, funny--but no one is saying that Batman was the focal point of the film.) I also love the editing on the back cover. :)

-Kenneth Branaugh directing Thor!? Well, he's in talks, anyway. I...honestly have nothing to say about that. So long as he doesn't then cast himself as the lead the way he did with almost every Shakespeare film adaptation he did, that's fine. (Don't get me wrong, he was good as the leads, but it got old.) Anyone knows more about Branaugh's directorial skill than I do wants to weigh in?

-Iron Man design art! The DVD is out tomorrow, probably with all these on there, but still, FYI. I love how very many of these drawings are pretty much realized exactly in the film. Except--and this is endlessly meta-fascinating--the one of the Mark II armor with the mini shoulder cannon. Because the only way Iron Man works as a sop to Tony Stark's I'm-not-making-weapons-any-more (except I totally am) newfound conscience is if you can't see the weapons. Yes, armor is a recognizeable part of warfare, but it's not a weapon out-and-out to most people. (It's more of a tool.) You have to hide the guns and the energy weapons (inside the wrist plates and as part of the flight stabilizers, respectively) if you want to swallow that fiction.

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gakked from droidguy1119: THE CONTROVERSIAL SURVEY

Otherwise known as Trinity tells you what you already knew from reading her rants, only this time in convenient, Q+A format with shorter answers! Win!

The Controversial Survey!
( Question 1: Are you a big, fat liberal who runs at the mouth? Why, yes! I am! )

No surprises there, I think.