Germy

In general, I don't like watching television. There are very few shows (scripted or otherwise) that I've been exposed to that have warranted even a little bit of my attention. It seems that most of the programming on television is carefully designed propaganda (I'm looking at you, every piece of news programming today, national or local) or meticulously constructed (usually obnoxious) efforts to separate me from my money. However, there have been a few shows that I've felt connected to, so that even now, I will take the time to watch. One of them is  Third Rock from the Sun , which is a show that has survived and passed the test of time. The other one is perhaps my favorite television show I've ever known:  Northern Exposure , and to say that it has passed the test of time is to do it a disservice. The fact that I was in my formative years when both of these shows aired is significant, if only because this was a time when I did watch a lot of television, and a...

As is the usual course of action concerning this blog, I am about to provide the wholly satisfactory and comprehensively thorough answers to the burning, insurmountable, unavailing questions that the world is consumed with. In   Star Trek, Generations , Captain Picard is in the Nexus, and Guinan explains to him that he can go back to any point in time, as the Nexus is "timeless." Why does he chooses to enlist the help of the long dead Captain James T. Kirk (who for un-addressed reasons is also in the Nexus) to go back to the moments before Dr. Tolian Soran fired the missile into the Nexus thingy? Are we really supposed to believe that Kirk is the only other person to have made it into the Nexus? If he really could have gone back to any moment in time, Picard could have gone back to when Soran was on the Enterprise and had him locked up. This would have not only have saved the Enterprise from destruction in the battle with the Klingons, but  countless lives in the dis-art...

The gauntlet has been thrown. Today, while discussing various things, my med school advisor says that he will buy me a beer, of my choice, if I can maintain a 96% or higher in a certain course that has been known to cause me trouble. I can't wait for that cold one, on a cold December night.