I'm voting for Dr Who (Guardian)

[struggle4progress]

Only the dependable doctor can save us from Wolfowitz, Bolton, Blair and all the other political Daleks

<snip> Because that's what the Doctor prevents: I remember. He's ecological, he tries not to kill things - even nasty things. He has at least one assistant with whom I can identify and he saves the world. Now, am I the only person who sits down on a Saturday evening and listens to that dibbidie-dum signature tune and thinks: "Given that most things are buggered and humanity is on the way out, wouldn't it be good if our only visible hope wasn't a fictional character?" <snip>

I would have thought there are certain types of behaviour - like buggering innocent strangers and beating people to death - that we might want laws to restrain, but apparently that would be wrong and pandering to a form of terrorism.

Soon we'll have Paul Wolfowitz at the World Bank and John Bolton at the UN, both of them devoted to delightful agendas which include privatising rainwater, encouraging illegal logging, the use of torture and disappearance, above-ground nuclear testing, pre-emptive warfare for profit, the US's right to the pre-emptive use of nuclear weapons, the single-minded appropriation, exploitation, and combustion of all hydrocarbons on earth by the US and the end of life on earth.

It may be that, eventually, the vast majority of US citizens will notice that their rivers are full of mercury and arsenic, they can no longer sue their doctor for malpractice, their economy is owned by China and balanced on a bubble of unsustainable debt, but by then it will be too late to unseat their government without a lot of unpleasantness. And way too late to save the world. <snip>

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9115,1448966,00.html

[Briar]

1. Only he can save the world...

sadly, this may be true.

Look at the US media, still whipping up the Terri Schiavo furore, and ignoring the murderous messes in Iraq and Afghanistan to do so, let alone the threat to our environment.

And presumably this is in pursuit of ratings, because this is what the average American couch potato wants to see on his or her tv.

But I hope Kennedy isn't serious about the razors...we need more people like her (and no Bliars and Bushes).

[yodermon]

2. AAUGH!

I had no idea Dr Who was back!!
Augh! :bounce:
Augh! :bounce:
Augh! :bounce:

(and, yes, that whooshing noise is the sound of the point of the OP going right over my head.)

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Reviews are generally good

see http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=191x2490
but the new actor has already announced he's not going to do the sencond series - see http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=191x2456