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News The Morning News
Posted by Unpaid Intern on Sat, May 9, 2009 at 9:17 AM
Post by News Intern Alexander P. Brown
Always Gotta Be Following US: Canada has first swine flu death.
It's Lonely In Them Hills: Afghanistan quarantines nation's only pig over flu concerns.
Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!: Seattle teachers' union plans to sue superintendent.
End Of A Dream: Chuck Daly, legendary NBA coach, dead at 78.
And in More Bad News: US unemployment rate highest since 1983.
If Ever A Reason For Morgan Freeman And Al Gore to Team Up...: Polar bears to remain "threatened" on Endangered Species list.
Burning Bright: Santa Barbara fires in blazes on for fourth day.
Maybe It Is Really A Strategy to Save Trees: Postal stamps to increase by two cents.
Because The Debate Will Rage On: As to whether the new Star Trek movie is good enough for all the die hard fans, here's a glimpse of what Gene Roddenberry used to cook up.
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I am a big trek fan, of everything except the original series. The movies are watchable, but the series is down right horrible. Bad acting, silly plots, Shatner, ect.
I loved the new movie though. It was what the original series could have been if not for the blatant suckery.
I loved the new movie though. It was what the original series could have been if not for the blatant suckery.
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I didn't realize I'd just been fired. at the end of teacher appreciation week, too. thanks dr. g-j, you're sweet!
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Yeah, some of TOS was pretty hokey, nearly to the point of camp (e.g. "Spock's Brain", "Turnabout Intruder" for starters - I doubt many fans would disagree with the position that things really went south in the third season, for a number or reasons), but some of it - for it's time - was pretty though-provoking. Plus, whereas most SF did, and frankly has continued to project a dystopian, post-apocalyptic view of our future, Trek was refreshing in its depiction of a future where we actually solved our problems, and moved forward: socially, politically, technologically, and morally - by 1960's standards at least. But then, what other standards would you expect a TV series created in the '60's by people living in the '60's to have?
And there are always going to be that handful of insufferable purists for whom even the smallest deviation from their adamantine perception of "the way things are supposed to be" constitutes grounds for blanket condemnation. Screw-'em.
And it feels sort of belaboring the point to note @5, that Roddenberry & Co. COULDN'T have produced something like this film: not with their technology, their budget, the puritanical censorship restrictions under which they worked, the constant interference from the network suits - frankly, they were lucky to have gotten away with the amount of commentary on contemporary culture they did - which, was really why TGB chose the SF genre in the first place. He wasn't trying to tell stories about the future so much as he was using the future to tell stories about the present - stories he wouldn't otherwise have been able to tell because of the general squeamishness of network executives and advertisers.
And there are always going to be that handful of insufferable purists for whom even the smallest deviation from their adamantine perception of "the way things are supposed to be" constitutes grounds for blanket condemnation. Screw-'em.
And it feels sort of belaboring the point to note @5, that Roddenberry & Co. COULDN'T have produced something like this film: not with their technology, their budget, the puritanical censorship restrictions under which they worked, the constant interference from the network suits - frankly, they were lucky to have gotten away with the amount of commentary on contemporary culture they did - which, was really why TGB chose the SF genre in the first place. He wasn't trying to tell stories about the future so much as he was using the future to tell stories about the present - stories he wouldn't otherwise have been able to tell because of the general squeamishness of network executives and advertisers.
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I despise the post office and their habit of raising the price of stamps by 1 or 2 cents every six months or so. I stopped using snail mail some time ago, and just bought some forever stamps in case I needed to mail something. I used the last one a while back and need to mail something again. I still have a bunch of old stamps and have no idea how much postage is anymore.
What a dumb and obsolete thing the USPS is.
What a dumb and obsolete thing the USPS is.
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Well, Kirk never has to worry about Spock trying to kill him during a mating ritual on Vulcan any more. Oh, Spock, guess Mother's Day is going to be really tough on you this year.
But seriously, Star Trek was about the characters that Roddenberry created and the interaction they had. The new movie worked simply because the characters are still the same on a basic level. Give the newbies a movie or two and you won't even miss the old cast.
But seriously, Star Trek was about the characters that Roddenberry created and the interaction they had. The new movie worked simply because the characters are still the same on a basic level. Give the newbies a movie or two and you won't even miss the old cast.
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Filing a ULP complaint with PERC is not the same as suing someone. (It's not in court, for one thing.) Furthermore, the complaint the union apparently plans to file is vs. the employer, not vs. the superintendent. To say "union plans to sue superintendent" is wildly incorrect.
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@9: Well, yeah, that's why the prices keep going up: home and personal use of the postal service has dropped through the floor. Business still uses the USPS heavily, though, and as long as that's so it won't be outdated -- it will just keep going up 2 cents a stamp every 6 months.
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if Vulcans are so logical, why did they make their weapons and gongs out of delicious but breakable rock candy?
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