Don't hurt me....

The good news? "Arrested Development" is returning. "Whoopi" is not.

The bad? So's "Tru Calling." And kauricat will be peeved to see that there's no sign of "Alias" on the 2004 ABC schedule. What the...? (Okay, apparently it's going to be held until mid-season to give one of their crappy comedies a higher profile. Still. Fek.)

Maybe it's not time to upgrade the TV yet.

Just the bad and the ugly

First the ugly: "Star Trek: Enterprise" renewed. I don't have active disdain for this show like I do "Tru Calling," but of all the Trek series, this one has certainly left me uninspired. Maybe because the genre feels pretty much done, maybe because I thought the whole premise was moronic from day one, maybe it's the damned theme song, I dunno. But I still think the franchise is dead, whether or not it's churning out episodes or not.

And by way of Joe, the bad. How high school poetry has gone afoul, and trust me, I've read bad poetry before. If they really want to crack down on bad poetry, forget the political subversion and go after the doggerel. It's not like it's hard to find.

Anyhow, short version: students aired dissenting political opinions through art. Principal ordered them silenced, art destroyed. Teachers backed them up. Teachers get fired. No child left behind, indeed.