What I think: The Eddy Berson Special Edition

It has been brought to my attention that my blog may be, at times, a miserable recital of my disappointments and complaints about law school and UBC in general. With that in mind... I bring you the Eddy Berson edition of What Darren Thinks... which will contain no further references (beyond this introductory paragraph) to UBC, the law, lawyers, or anything related to the aforementioned subjects. This entry may be very short.

Strange, but when I don't talk about the things that I'm not supposed to talk about I can't think of much to say. Maybe that should send up a red flag that my life is becoming too concentrated around one thing. But... in my defense... it's hard not to focus on something that takes up ninety-nine percent of my time. There are, actually, a lot of other things I could talk about.

Like politics. I can't say I subscribe to a particular ideology... I find myself arguing with idealistic head-in-the-clouds ultra left wingers as often as I argue with rigid evil paranoid conservatives. One funny thing about politics is what the two sides say about the media. I know some people who argue from the left. They say that public perception of the left and their issues is skewed because the right wing conservative media doesn't give them a fair chance. Some other people I know, who argue vehemently from the right, say that right wing issues aren't given a fair chance in the media because it is controlled by left wing liberal types. So which is it? The interesting thing in these arguments is the underlying assumption. The arguer, it seems, has it all figured out, while the public is either too stupid or too preoccupied to see what the arguer sees and instead has fallen into the evil clutches of the media, which is always working for the other side. You never hear someone say: "Yeah, the public just doesn't agree with me on this one, and it's too bad because the media is really portraying the issue fairly."

Like religion. Don't even get me started. Lately I've been reading Pat Robertson's website. Why? I can't really explain it. I can only liken it to people who slow down on the freeway to look at the horrible twisted carnage of a car accident. It's terrifying and sickening, but some deep instinct forces them to bear witness to the depravity. In this age of consumerism I can only conclude that God Himself has become the ultimate commodity, whose favor is bought and sold among certain right wing groups. Do not presume to know the will of God? Yeah right. These groups not only claim to know it but also claim to be the only ones who can tell you what it is. They will tell you who God hates. They will tell you who is going to be punished. God is a tool for these people to prop up their bigoted, narrow minded points of view. Pat Robertson's website says very little about love. It is almost entirely devoted to hate, warfare, punishment, fear, and persecution of groups on his list of evil doers. You apparently have to go to this man to find out how our creator feels about everything from Supreme Court nominees to Hugo Chavez to gay marriage. Pat Robertson, who calls himself a Christian, acts nothing like Jesus nor does he try to emulate him. This, my friends, is the true face of evil. Amen.

But enough about politics and religion. The new TV season is starting up and there are a lot of good shows out there this time around. These are some of the shows I usually watch:

Survivor. It's good so far, but I'll keep you posted because it has a tendency to tank after a couple episodes. This is usually because of stupid team strategy. One recent stupid strategy: Hey let's vote out all the young, strong people so they won't be a threat to us after the merge. Yeah, good plan, but if you're going to make it to the merge you need those young, strong people to beat the other team in the challenges (FYI the team that did this was pretty much obliterated before the merge).

The Amazing Race. I'm usually pretty happy with this show but I have to admit that this family edition thing is putting a damper on the excitement. Yeah this time around each team has like four people and they're all families. I don't see the initial appeal of watching stressed out parents drag screaming, tired kids around the world with them. Contestants on the Amazing Race spend a lot of time waiting in airports, running through cities, and they constantly have to adjust to new time zones and different hours of sleep. And now we get to watch kids do all of this? I think the season will be able to be summed up like this: *sob* *sob* MOMMY ARE WE THERE YET? MOMMY? I WANT TO GO HOME! *sob* *sob* Yeah. Go CBS.

Lost. Darren and I just watched the whole first season on DVD and the second season starts on Wednesday. I can't wait.

House. This show is funny. He's mean but we like him.

Grey's Anatomy. This is another good good good show. Sunday nights.

The Apprectice. How do you pluralize this? Apprentices? Apprenti? Anyway I'm going to watch Donald Trump's version for sure and to be honest I'll probably tune in to Martha Stewart's as well. She's just so scary. I think she'll probably have a naughty list of everyone out there who didn't watch.

Okay so this concludes the Eddy Berson edition. Come back in a few days for more about... the thing I can't talk about.