"Our COPS is On"

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Last night we found an episode of COPS (two episodes are on every weeknight, FOX cultural ambassador for the United States worldwide) and one of the segments had stuff from one of the Spokane episodes. Ahh, if that doesn't make you homesick... Why is it that they never pull over some fancypants lawyer or CEOs or Vice-Presidents for East Coast Television and Microwave Oven Programming for DUI or causing a ruckus for being fired huh? Instead we get episodes full of mullets, mustaches, motorcycles, AC/DC t-shirts, kitten t-shirts, bare feet, half naked, unintelligible representations of American life. No wonder people expected Ragen and I to be awesome bowlers when we went out a couple weeks ago.

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Speaking of television, "What's the deal with..." game/reality shows? I've always been on the reality tv will become the new opiate of the masses and will spread like, things, that spread quickly... There is always a question of which show came from what country, like Who Wants to Be a Millionaire came to the US from the UK and stuff (actually I guess most come from the UK) and Big Brother came from Scandinavia, I think. We have started to notice that there are a ton of those type of shows made here in Sweden. There is now, Power of 10, Deal or No Deal, So You Think You Can Dance Scandinavia, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Dancing With the Stars (called Let's Dance), Sweden's Got Talent (not really the title), Swedish Idol (also American Idol), Big Brother of course, the Singing Bee, and others I'm sure I can't recall. Oh and we also get The Apprentice UK with the role of the Trumpster being played by some guy I've never heard of (for shame you ethnocentric American). Ok I lost what point I was trying to make about this except there is a lot of those reality/game show shows on here.

In other news:

It's been nice and warm here and in the 50's most of the last few days. Cold back on the Palouse and snowing in Seattle for Opening Day? Crazy. Also we are now on European Summertime so once again we are now 9 hours ahead of the west coast and 6 hours of the east coast. Apparently that means SLU changes their hours as well. Ragen's work day is now 8 to 4 instead of 9 to 5, kind of like what WSU does but this is for like seven months. As far as what I'm doing, I'm starting to get some applications together. I'm really looking at some jobs in the legal department of a subsidiary of the Shinehart Wig Corporation. Looks appealing. I let you know.