Sunday, October 10, 2004

I apologize for devoting so much of this log to criticism of dopey media output, but the subject matter's all too easy to come by--and unfortunately it doesn't have a lot of competition. Anyhow, I regettably mentioned this forensics-spinoff show, which nowadays boasts other siblings as well. This time my mistakenly paying attention to the living-room tube revealed a fine target for conservative types to blast away at: This stupid-sode's villain turns out to be a chaplain who's obsessed with the 1950s. There were formulaic details I also found offensive (maybe there always are), but this implied anti-moral--the '50s were evil, & religion is bad--is about as subtle as one of that era's monster films, and about as realistic.