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Monday, July 15, 2002



Big Brother is watching you; you are watching "Big Brother 3"


I just learned of the existence of this new program from the Federal government, the Terrorist Information and Prevention Service, a name which I assume tested better in focus groups than Secret Police. They want to start with one million people? That's about four percent of the U.S. population right there. They can't even train that many people to watch UPN on a regular basis.

Something like this was a plot line in "Gasoline Alley" a few months ago. Spurred on by their teacher, the schoolkids in that strip formed an anti-terrorism watch group called the Home Guard. They became suspicious of the new boy at school, and when spying on him, heard him discussing guns and bombs with his father. An army of cops showing up at their house later, it turned out the father drew a syndicated adventure comic strip (presumably one more adventurous than "Gasoline Alley") and was discussing future plots. Despite their complete failure to uncover any terrorist activity, the Home Guard got a congratulatory letter from President Bush anyway. The strip then moved on to other things, such as the over-100-year-old Walt Wallet getting lost while walking through a cemetery and ending up in an open grave. Yes, I'm probably the one person under 50 who reads "Gasoline Alley."

Anyway, we have always been at war with Eastasia, and the ol' clock struck 13 a while ago, so good night.




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