Elegant Distractions

Godshatter comes from the Vernor Vinge Novel, A Fire Upon the Deep. In that world, there are extremely intelligent beings that live on the edges of the galaxy. They cannot travel to the center so they send normal beings who they use as emmissaries. These human beings have much of the superintelligence crammed into their head and their real personality is thus shattered.

I highly recommend the book by the way. If you want some hard science fiction with an amazingly detailed and alien world, check it out.

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I happened to be watching MSNBC this afternoon. I don't frequent that channel (perhaps because of stories like this) so I don't know which show it was. The hosts were Ron Reagan and some woman I didn't recognize. Anyway, the subject was reality television. They talked about the American Idol expose tonight on ABC and then began to complain about how the media was wrong to cover things like reality TV instead of real news, "especially today with the news regarding Al Quaeda" (in case you didn't see the memo, we caught the 3rd highest ranked Al Quaeda member today). Pot...Kettle...Black. How can you, with a straight face, impugn the media for doing something that you--a member of the media--are doing at that very moment?

Moral of the story: Watch Fox News. When I flipped the channel I found John Gibson interviewing former secretary of state Lawrence Eagleburger about the Al Quaeda capture.

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