This was an epiphany tonight.

Just a thought, really.

It looks interesting enough to watch for a bit — and then if it gets good, I’m sure NBC will cancel it.

via NYTimes.com

So what’s the deal with the butt-hurt conservatives lately? They say this is Obama’s Katrina, like it’s something that isn’t being handled properly and there’s multiple levels of command failures everywhere. Can the US government physically stop an oil spill? No. The government can’t stop a Hurricane, much less an oil spill. But what can they do? The government can put a freeze on deep water drilling for 6 months to make sure this type of thing never happens again — can you say that about hurricanes?

There’s probably a lot more the US government and the president can do about mobilizing more personnel and organizing them in the clean-up effort, but at least they are organized and not a tragic mess like the Katrina FEMA response was. So is this Obama’s Katrina? Definitely not.

The end is the beginning and the beginning is the end… “Wait, so there was a drain plug on the island that kept it from sinking?”

Humor aside, “Lost” has been one of my favorite shows of all time and I think the golden age of television may be over for my generation. There’s nothing to religiously watch anymore. All the good shows have come and gone – Futurama Classic, Arrested Development, Life, Star Trek – all gone.

I think the show ended on a good note which is full of spirituality and holds high entertainment value to its viewers. Critics will call it a “WTF” ending, but because we see the alternate reality as actually a purgatory of sorts, the audience has a glimpse of a happy ending for all their beloved characters. Surely I did predict Hurley would be the new caretaker of the light, and that Jack would die on the island as the show came to a bookend close, but I never would have guessed the events that would have lead us to the end – a misdirection that Jack took as the temp, or the alternate reality ending. I’m just glad it wasn’t Hurley’s dream or one of those other guesses widely spread on the internet.

To say that cast was already dead is also up for interpretation, but to me it seems that the island held more of a Fountain of Youth mythology and that it transcended time and space. We saw what happened in the past, then what happened in the future, and then we saw a place where there was no time, no space, and in a sense the step we all must take to let go: acceptance.

So, what’s next?

That’s right. I went there.

Sometimes you wonder if things actually happened. For example, did Sarah Palin actually say, “Drill, baby, drill?” Yes. She did. So did many other republicans. You can’t be pro environment and pro drilling. When the Horizon sank, supposedly one of the most advanced exploratory ships in the world, republicans shut up. It always seems to take a national disaster to fuel both outrage and and sympathy. We’ll see in the next few weeks how they’ll spin this story — perhaps they’ll say we need “safer” drilling techniques, or we’ll need to start drilling farther from the coast. Whatever the right-wing says, Americans won’t be fooled.

There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.

- President George W. Bush