So sometimes it is about both...

I don't always have to blog about just one thing, or just two things, but if I do blog mostly about TV and Politics, the two definitely go together. Ever since JFK made Nixon look like a zombie, the two were inseparable.

So coming up this week are the first new episodes of Survivor and The Dollhouse, and I am looking forward to both of them. The Dollhouse because Joss Whedon has a tendency to make a decent series every once in a while, especially when the networks hate it. Already Fox indicated that they were less enthusiastic about the pilot episode they saw, which means only good things for the series. In fact, the new series almost mirrors the way Firefly started out. So instead of what was probably a great pilot episode, we get to start with a chase... again. So as long as Joss ignores the suits and avoids the vampires, I think it could still turn out just fine.
And I am looking forward to Survivor also, just because I am. It is really the best show on television to see an almost real world example of the internal workings of the human mind, but instead of holding back and avoiding doing the horrible things that most people do, it's all out there in the open, with a running commentary on it by each person. It's like an office workplace with alcohol thrown in the mix. People always say too much, backstabbing goes on constantly (but this time we actually get to see it), and people get sent off the island because nobody likes them... or because too many people like them and they are a threat. It is seriously just like the real world for those who choose to see it.

And politics... seriously, I just wish there would be an uprising of the people who are paying all the taxes and are tired of getting nothing to show for it. Personal taxes are about a third of what the government spends every year, and corporate taxes are most of the rest. Corporations are already starting to move overseas since we have one of the highest corporate tax rates of any country in the world, and I can't help but think that individuals are going to start doing the same if they get the chance. I can just see some billionaire going and buying a country, and then developing it to the point that it is easily livable with reasonable infrastructure physically, and then just opening it up to all comers. There would be a mass migration of people with money heading for new scenery where they actually get to hold on to their hard earned money... or for most of the rich people in the world, most of thier great-great-grandparents' hard earned money. They could buy Canada.