Quiche Moraine

Go for it, Bill! We love your Socratic Method!

I’m certainly glad the TV taught me how to be cute and get whatever I want just by using a big bright smile and a cute little dog! Or perhaps the right pair of shoes…

BIOBLITZ 2010 at Vermillion Highlands
June 11-12, 2010

This year’s Minnesota BioBlitz will take place at the Vermillion Highlands Research, Recreation and Wildlife Management Area (WMA) and Vermillion River (WMA). Our base camp and main check-in will be at the UMore Park Administration Building at 1605 160th Street W., Rosemount, Minn. .

Every year Minnesota BioBlitz attracts hundreds of families and scientists from around the state who use sonar detectors, bug lights, live traps and laptops to count and chronicle an area’s floral and fauna. Volunteers of all ages work alongside biologists to collect plants and insects and live-trap animals, which are identified before being released back into the wild. Collection stations and inventory “leader boards” will be set up inside at the UMore Park Administration Building. Minnesota BioBlitz is co-sponsored by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.

More info, and to volunteer

“OMG, did people really…look like that? …think other people looked like that? …put that sort of thing on TV? …watch that sort of thing on TV?”

The social transaction here is a major theme of both Dragnet and Adam-12, and one that would later be developed in new directions by TV shows like COPS.

Viva la popular culture!

The police officers are pleased and amused by the situation, which gives the young viewers an indication of what it looks like when all’s well that ends well.

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and other TV shows like it helped young Americans learn what and who to be be afraid of, and most importantly, what our enemies looked like.

Ways to socialize, ways to love, ways to hate, ways to be afraid come in part “naturally” and in part from specific role models, and in part from popular culture. And that popular culture includes these old TV shows.

I suppose it is quite reasonable that the man chosen by the Republicans to run against Fifth District Congressman Keith Ellison is a firm believer that we are presently in the End Times and that the Antichrist is almost here.