Right.

There was a thing that happened at the beginning of the first episode of season 2: when they pulled down the actual USA flag and put up the new ASA flag which was actually worse.

The other thing was a "we're not in Kansas, anymore" kind of moment.

Aurelia, I think my response to America as superpower is visceral enough that it doesn't matter to me if the show owns me.

I can see that, sumi, especially from a citizen's point of view.

Fair enough. I do think it was the most powerful moment since the kid watching the mushroom cloud. It got an audible "whoa" out of me.

On a lighter note, I like this one. [link]

Word sandwich, kind of fun. What's the point of the moving bar, though? It had me all tense, apparently for no reason.

If I'm drinking Mike's Hard Lemonade, is that like the strength of a wine cooler? It's pretty tasty, but it's like tasty soda... that could go horribly wrong considering how little I drink. But I just wanted something drinky tonight.

I had to skip 1500 posts after trying to catch up for several days. Makes me a little sad.

I found the ASA flag on Jericho totally freaky and wrong viscerally. Like, OMG NO. There are no vertical stripes on our flag!

I'm not overly-patriotic, but that was definitely a strong reaction.

Yes, I think Mike's Lemonade is roughly equivalent to a wine cooler, or possibly a beer.

I tried the word game, but I got to something between devil and dimes, and couldn't figure out any five letter words between those (turns out it was diced)

Maybe it's just too late at night for that. Though it's not that late (and it's Friday!), but somehow going dancing made it feel much later.

I have a sad new addiction: Word Sandwich, a game where you basically just guess a word. [link]

Damn, once I got the hang of it, that was maddeningly fun.

What's the point of the moving bar, though? It had me all tense, apparently for no reason.

You get a multiplier depending on how much time you take.

This one is also wrong. The axis labels just make no sense. [link]

It's like they just grabbed for a song with numbers in the lyrics. I like this better because they're talking relationships. I like relationships.

The axis labels just make no sense.

They really don't.

The person who keeps getting worked up over bad pie charts is funny though.

From CNN:

Windows also were shattered in the CNN.com newsroom, with staffers saying that there was a computer missing -- apparently sucked through one of the windows.

Freaky. But this is scary. At the Georgia Dome:

Both teams stopped and looked toward the Teflon-coated Fiberglas fabric roof, which is designed to flex slightly during high wind, but was rippling heavily in the storm, much like waves rolling toward the shore.